Born to Walk: Myofascial Efficiency and the Body in Movement

‘We must remember Schleip. Our fascial system is constantly rearchitecting itself and, in as little as seven months, our whole system could be completely renewed.’ The bulb brightened as I considered the consequences of this statement. Fascia is fluid. It moves and contracts. It also suffers if we let it be stagnant.

Her muscles, bones and connective tissues are maintaining a versatile and continuous management, within a tensional network that houses compression elements in ways that levers do not adequately describe. Her muscle tonus is even throughout but no one muscle is responsible for this unified balance and global organisation.

How did we come to consider the parts of the body as anything other than entirely continuous? They are united by the fabric and forms of the axial (except girdles and limbs) and appendicular (girdles and limbs) skeleton, wrapping them in the continuous matrix of tissues and continuously wrapped in periost: the fascia around all the bones. In the em

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