Katie’s body is containing and managing the internal changes of breathing. At the same time it is organising the external balance between gravity (drawing her toward the centre of the earth) and ground reaction force (her body instinctively resists, away from it). Thus her ability to “draw in” to her sense of her centre and at the same time reach a

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yoga is essentially about continuity and connectedness. It is about what the parts can multiply up to, as unified, rather than what they divide down into, as fragmented. As much as we love to identify the fragments, identification must inspire or enhance our experience rather than reduce it to functional data or anatomical concepts. Body factions o

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Simple examples of this are found in various parts and functions of the body, from breathing to giving birth, from emptying the bladder to the movement of food through the gut via peristalsis. Although it operates along a tube, the method is an ancient rhythmical ability to expand and squeeze the tissues. They rest in the “middle state”, so that gl

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with Tom Myers, in Structural Integration and Anatomy Trains, had not prepared me for seeing muscles so intimately interwoven and continuous in longitudinal, lateral and layered relationships with all our parts and forms. They are anything but discrete units, even in cadavers. They are completely connected to each other and surrounded. Not even a s

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