(Slowing Down to Run Faster (North Atlantic, 2020) is available at Stories Bookstore in LA, Feldenkrais Resources, Bookshop.com (to locate an independent bookstore in the U.S.), Amazon, Wook.pt [in Portugal], and your friendly local independent bookstore.)
Slowing Down to Run Faster can be thought of as the revised and expanded edition of my first book, The Art of Slowing Down (Panenthea, 2010). The changes, collectively resulting in 100 additional pages, include:
- New Postscript which serves to underscore problems that inevitably arise when experts lean too heavily on either the limited field of biomechanics or our limited ability to accurately and precisely imitate other people’s running form.
- Significantly enlarged lesson catalogue: Along with revising and expanding thirteen of the original lessons, I have added seven entirely new ones, six of which comprise a new series called, “Metatarsals to Metacarpals.”
- Significant edits to Chapters 9 and 16.
Reviews for SLOWING DOWN TO RUN FASTER: a sense-able approach to movement (North Atlantic, 2020)
Rarely have I seen a book on running, in particular on running mechanics, actually hit the mark and make an impact on my coaching. Edward’s sense-able approach connects the dots for so much of what I have seen over the years when working with my elite athletes. Improving running form is not a one step or one method process. It is a coming to terms with who we are as humans first and athletes second. This book takes us back to the beginning. It teaches us to understand what it means to be a child again. It rekindles our desires to explore to play and to expand our sense of self. Never have we needed this mind-body connection as much as we do now. The art of running should bring us joy not injury. Slowing Down to Run Faster is here to show us the way.
—TERRENCE MAHON, Head Coach & Founder of Golden Coast Track Club, Adidas Endurance Coach
Edward has done something quite remarkable by showing us how we can use the Feldenkrais Method to run better. If you do the exercises in this book slowly and with awareness, you will indeed run faster with less effort. More importantly however, if you read the words carefully, you will learn how your running can teach you about yourself and how you live. This, in turn can transform your running from mind numbing jogging into a practice that is healthy for body, mind and perhaps even soul.
—JOHN TARR, Music Teacher, MovNat Level 1 Trainer
This book opens the door to the revolution currently taking place in sports in general and running in particular. In sharp contrast to the conventional citius-altius-fortius approach, Slowing Down to Run Faster demonstrates how we can increase strength, power and speed not by pushing more, but by refining our ability to move. What comes out of the process is not only improved abilities, but the possibility for improved awareness and increased enjoyment of the act of running itself.
—KREŠIMIR ŠOŠ, Former Strength and Conditioning Coach at GNK Dinamo Zagreb, Croatian U-21 National Team and Legia Warsaw FC
This book will give you so many insights, not only into the world of running, but life itself. Edward’s writing is clear and interesting and the exercises in the book will, in fact, make you a better runner.
—GÖRAN MÖRKEBERG, Running Coach, Physiotherapist, Feldenkrais Assistant Trainer