The position (literally) we have gotten our body into is being passed down to the next generation, because we have not been instructed on how to move. We keep teaching the next generation our poor habits because we don’t understand how movement and alignment are passed on (psssst… it’s not genetic). The farther we have gotten from nature, the less

Gracovetsky emphasises that the human form is entirely designed for mobility, not for stability. His spinal engine theory (see also notes and further reading) is like water in the overheated arguments of a dry biomechanical desert.

Our bones (which Levin refers to as “starched fascia”) are designed via the day-to-day management of forces, of our reaction to the ground (or pull of gravity towards it). We

Your fascia is the neutral servant of all that you embody, containing every detail of you. It responds with exquisite sensitivity to your ways, your woes and your wisdom, as they are at any given time. How you express yourself physically, every moment and movement of the day, is recorded and recognised by the fascial network, if not animated by it.