Wellness for Makers: A Movement Guide for Artists

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Learn 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.

Author Missy Graff Ballone is the founder of Wellness for Makers®, a company dedicated to empowering artists through education, mindful living, and movement. This is the only wellness book geared specifically to craftspeople.

Whether you’re making jewelry, ceramics, weavings, needlework, murals, or sculptures, the information, tips, and 40+ exercises with detailed photos—all steps are clearly demonstrated by the author herself—will create more-healthful movement patterns that build strength and longevity, reduce the risk of injury, relieve pain and strain, and improve posture and overall well-being.

Treat yourself to this book as an exercise in self-care, or gift it to any fellow crafter you know who could also benefit from it.

From the Publisher

A Movement Guide for Artists

Learn the actions, movements, and best practices to help your body—your main craft tool—perform its best.

For artists and craftsmen of all ages to reduce their risk of injury in the studio.

Author is well known as founder of Wellness for Makers, a company focused on this topic.

Focus on reducing injury, improving posture and relieving pain.

Stretching and strengthening techniques to build healthy habits.

Exercises include gripping, walking, lifting and squatting.

Perfect the art of good posture.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Schiffer Craft
Publication date ‏ : ‎ Aug. 16 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0764363212
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0764363214
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 703 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.42 x 1.91 x 23.5 cm
Best Sellers Rank: #430,202 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #190 in Injury Prevention #351 in Exercise for Stress #569 in Crafts & Hobbies Reference (Books)
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