Yoga: Fascia, Anatomy and Movement: Fascia, Form and Functional Movement

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In a biotensegrity structure there is a continuous tension network in which discontinuous compression elements are suspended. The compression struts do not touch each other. This is the first challenge to notions derived from general anatomy books. Our bones do not touch each other and, according to Levin, the cartilage lining our joints in the liv

Plasticity can be an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on the material and reason for changing it. Like elasticity it is a property rather than a value. It can mark improvement or injury, depending on whether the change it presents is valuable on that occasion, at that time, for that individual – or not.

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.

Gracovetsky emphasises that the human form is entirely designed for mobility, not for stability. His spinal engine theory (see also notes and further reading) is like water in the overheated arguments of a dry biomechanical desert.

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

Our bones (which Levin refers to as “starched fascia”) are designed via the day-to-day management of forces, of our reaction to the ground (or pull of gravity towards it). We

What we have to realise is that the contractive power of muscle is completely useless without the tensioning cables of the connective tissues in which the muscle resides. It contracts to tension a tensional network that connects the body to itself and contains everything. It has to pull on something. Thus it is referred to as a pre-tensioned or a p

How this body-wide sensory system works could be likened to a kind of hierarchy in a walled city, where everyday details of the housekeeping do not bother the “head office” of the central nervous system: the brain. In this metaphor there are gatekeepers, regulating at various levels of management, throughout the whole connected sensory architecture