It does not have to be a self-absorbed way of being. On the contrary, it is nurturing the centre from which we can teach in a quiet kind of listening, without the commentary of a busy mind.

A spider’s web, for example, is a tensional structure and can be said to have “tensile integrity”. However, it is not a tensegrity structure as such, because it requires an external frame. “Tensegrities are different – their forms are self-stabilized, independent of gravity and need no external support” (Tom Flemons2). Our ability to walk around an

Apart from anything else, scientific research is discovering new proportions and ratios for assigning senses and sensory responses to the forces that travel through our tissues in motion. The discovery that the fascia is one of the largest and richest sensory organs of the body3 has made many people start to reconsider the traditional view of how t

and another quality entirely between your scalp and your skull bones or over the back of your elbow. All that sliding is the superficial fascia, which is effectively the back of the skin, moving over the deep fascia, which is over the muscles enclosing the bones. Between them is a layer of what is called “loose connective tissue”, sometimes referre

the “internal-net” is being recognised as global in terms of the body’s world.

From the postures (yogasana) to the ability to manage various physiological systems (i.e. respiration and more refined practices of self-management) to meditation, the fascia plays an intimate role in our human experience.

Every single muscle fibril, group of fibrils forming fibres, group of fibres forming bundles, group of fibre bundles forming the muscle belly and continuously extending beyond the muscle belly to form the tendinous part of the muscle is fascia. Fascia is what holds a group of muscles together, what attaches them through cross-links, as a group or i

“when discussing any changes in motor organisation, it is important to realise that the central nervous system does not operate ‘in muscles’, i.e. a muscle is never activated as a whole.”

A great divide began to arise between man and nature, his own nature, due in part, ironically, to the way in which the study of human anatomy eventually came to be sanctioned by the church (see Descartes, later in this chapter). Soft tissue was removed from the physical body when human dissection was eventually permitted. Since it was not recognise