Ruthy Alon

Ruthy Alon (born January 25, 1930, Bogotá), is a senior Feldenkrais Method instructor and the developer of the Bones for Life program for osteoporosis prevention and reversal.

Ruthy Alon immigrated to pre-state Israel with her family at the age of three. Her father was Russian and her mother from Morocco. From the age of 11 to 13 she lived on a kibbutz. In 1949, she was released from mandatory army service (working on radio communication codes) to complete her training as an elementary school teacher in Jerusalem, after the large wave of immigration that followed the establishment of the state in 1948.

Ruthy Alon was among the first students of Moshe Feldenkrais, with whom she trained in 1958. She helped popularize the Feldenkrais approach to somatic learning around the world, contributing to the development of professional Feldenkrais Method instruction in Europe, the United States, Australia, and Israel.

In her book Mindful Spontaneity she explains the basic principles of the Feldenkrais Method and outlines some simple exercises. This book has been published in English, Italian, German, Portuguese, Hebrew, and Russian, with a Spanish translation in the works. In 1992, the Italian translation [2 volumes, published by Red edizioni] won the Premio Nazionale del Libro di Medicina Naturale by Associazione C.G. Jung. In the mid-1990s, Alon made a 30-minute video about the Feldenkrais Method, called Movement Nature Meant.

Since the 1990s, concurrent with her Feldenkrais teaching, Alon began developing the Bones For Life program. Based on the Feldenkrais approach to psychophysical re-education of dysfunctional habits, this self-improvement program is designed to stimulate the strengthening of bone tissue and the reorganization of weight-bearing posture through well-coordinated movement.

After preliminary tests in Israel, the Bones for Life program was presented in the United States at the 2005 AsMA [Aerospace Medical Association] conference, and in 2007 at the NOF [National Osteoporosis Foundation] conference in Washington, D.C.

Alon is the founder and president of the Foundation for Movement Intelligence, a non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention and the reversal of osteoporosis through natural means.

Published works

  • Mindful Spontaneity, Equinox Publishing, Roseville, Australia e Prism Press, Brideport, U.K., 1980.

Articles about Ruthy Alon

  • Lingman, Carol. Biological Optimism in Aligning the Vertical Weight bearing Skeleton: An Interview with Ruthy Alon. The Feldenkrais Journal, 15, Winter 2003; pp.27-32.
  • Alon, R. The Conditioning of Bone Strength on Posture. Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, Volume 76, Number 3, March 2005, pp. 221. [1 report available online]
  • Wexler, Ellyn. Bones for Life 101: Nurturing dem bones that align the spine. Maryland Community Gazette [USA], September 23, 2004, p. B56. [2 Gazette.Net
  • 3 Official website of Feldenkrais Guild of North America
  • 4 Official website of Bones for Life program
  • 5 Official website of Foundation for Movement Intelligence

References

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