Myofascial Yoga: A movement and yoga therapists guide to asana
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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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.
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There is, however, a much more valuable and powerful distinction available, once we appreciate the myofascial body and its structure, which lies in recognising elasticity as paramount. Elasticity is the source of our energy storage capacity. Once we understand it – and there are a lot of misconceptions around it – we have an immeasurably valuable r
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