Core Awareness, Revised Edition: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance

The implications of this continuity of tissue were that the separately named muscle-to-tendon, bony periosteum, ligament and joint capsule together formed one continuous architecture. It was thickened, vascularised, innervated and invested with different qualities at different points of connection and disconnection. Nevertheless, the tissue in, aro

I do have a problem with the conclusions many anatomists come to regarding movement. There is a tendency to indulge in reverse-engineering, trying to understand movement by looking at the parts rather than understanding that movement starts as an idea/intention in the cortex and is then carried out in the way we have rehearsed such movements throug

In general, we can propose the following philosophy on exercising joints: 1. When a joint is bearing a load, restrict its range of movement: stiffen the joint—engage the muscles. 2. To increase a joint’s range of movement, move it to its natural limits when it is not bearing a load: relax the muscles.

Notice the terms like “it’s my natural state,” or “I was born this way,” etc., above. Your motor pathways are somatic—which means you have total control over what is happening to all your muscles. When you have beliefs that reinforce where your body is, then it’s going to be difficult to change. This is a new mantra for everyone: Muscle length is c