Description
Book SynopsisLearn the actions, movements, and best practices to help your body--your main craft tool--perform its best. An important resource for all makers and artists, this helpful guide supports artists and crafters with ways to maintain their most valuable tool: their body. This one-of-kind guide teaches you how to alleviate pain and strain while working in the studio through active and passive stretching, strengthening, and massage techniques.
- The author is the founder of Wellness for Makers,a company focused on this topic
- This is the only wellness book geared specifically to craftspeople.
- The author's podcast,Wellness of Makers, is on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play
- Strong gift potential for anyone who knows and cares about a crafter and wants to keep them healthy.
Whether you''re making jewelry, ceramics, weavings, needlework, murals, or sculptures, the information, tips, and 40+ exercises with
Trade Review
nbsp;“Our bodies are our most important tool and through care and practices such as the stretches and new habits Graff Ballone presents in this book, we can keep our bodies healthy and feeling good through long careers of making.” -- Rebecca Mezoff, OTR, artist, author of The Art of Tapestry Weaving
nbsp;“Ballone’s tips serve as a great reminder to switch things up. Achy artists will find this a boon.”
-- Publishers Weekly
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Why We Move
Chapter Two: Why We Mend
Chapter Three: Finding Neutral
Chapter Four: Studio Movements & Misalignments
Chapter Five: Mending
Chapter Six: Studio Improvement
Chapter Seven: Consistency
Chapter Eight: Closing Note
Notes
Bibliography
Index
