There is a beautiful piece of fascia that forms a band around the ankle—the retinaculum. The retinaculum keeps all the muscles from just flying off of the leg! Of course, it can also prevent the slide and glide needed if it is bound down too tight.

Our largest sensory organ is our muscle with the related fascia. The fasciae are an interconnected web, like a school of fish or a flock of birds. When one fish shifts, as in a change of a singular motor unit, the rest follow.

Tibialis posterior is a huge player in stabilizing and sending information from the ankle joint up the core. Stand on the ground, and gently lift up the medial arch and feel the tibialis posterior engaging right behind the tibia bone (top bone of the lower leg). You may feel the peroneals and tibialis anterior trying to join the party.

If you engage and lift up on the perineum and inhale notice that the diaphragm does not move as far south as compared to when you gently lift on the pelvic floor (levator ani and fascia) with less of a physical lift and more of an energetic engagement of the pelvic floor. The actual energetic spots of Mula Bandha are behind the cervix and behind th

The stretch can be increased through the SL by engaging the shoulder blade toward the spine—shortening the rhomboids. For example, in a right twist you draw the scapula toward the spine and may add tucking the chin toward the right breast at 45 degrees, which stretches the left splenius capitis.

connects the hamstrings to the sacrotuberous ligament—which attaches to the lower aspect of the sacrum. The sacrotuberous ligament keeps our tailbone, the sacrum, from popping upward. Starting from the bottom of the feet, continuing up the back of the legs, and on to our tail are the beginnings of the SBL.

“Fascia is gaining popularity as a term for all the structural connective tissues and the various substances that they produce to hold us together as a being on this planet. It is made mostly of various types of collagen protein, a pliable fiber stronger than steel. These fibers are imbedded in a mucousy colloidal gel - somewhere between silicone a

Our proverbial six-pack is often associated with a “strong core.” In fact, it is not our core. It plays a wonderful synergistic relationship with our quadriceps, helps us create long back bends if it is not pulled short, as in Wheel pose (figure 2.9). Functionally, it keeps our guts inside which keeps things tidy. Additionally, the rectus abdominis

four types of mechanoreceptors in fascia.