Myofascial Yoga: A movement and yoga therapists guide to asana
Perhaps one reason it is so complicated to learn about levers and human movements is because levers do not represent what actually happens in moving humans. After all, these theories were deduced when fascia was routinely discarded by anatomists. Deduction was made in the absence of the connectivity. Could it be that we incorporate more intelligent
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Fascia is referred to as our organ of organisation and its proprioceptive qualities are subtle and extensive. In yoga it is essentially the sensing of every part of us, in any given pose, relative to every other part and the mat. It speaks the instinctive language of movement because the body literally senses where it is and what it does all the ti
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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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(1) it is alive and anything but passive, (2) it is a sensory organ (see Ch. 9), (3) it is literally everywhere and (4) it is continuous throughout our form, on every scale, joining and relating everything to everything else. This combination of characteristics amounts to the recognition of the fascia as the master of our sense of where we are in s
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