Yoga: Fascia, Anatomy and Movement: Fascia, Form and Functional Movement
Any work that offers a release to the infrahyoids, scalenes and longus colli/capitis will offer a profound release of the DFL. We literally hang from our heads—imagine a fascial wedding dress that drapes downward. When we adjust how we hang from our heads, the shoulders soften downwards and connect with a smoother line to the sacrum and pelvis. Thi
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Remember, one model posits that the purpose of our ligaments is to restrain a joint from moving too far and damaging itself. However, we have seen that often, our range of motion and mobility is too restricted; we are not in danger of going too far—we are suffering from not being able to access our natural and normal range of movement. The only way
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We don’t usually stop to ask what we are aware of when we move, but we can do this as a matter of choice. When we pay attention to our movement and notice what happens, we are moving consciously. We may even unravel habits we want to change. Our everyday movements are mostly habitual and thus within our bodily range of what phenomenology’s founder
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We experience emotional and physical turbulence. Turning back on itself, bound-up energy may manifest in the form of muscular rotations, torsion in joints, pulled fascia, and taut ligaments. There may be small spirals within tissue, viscera, and organs or large spirals in connective tissue, fascia, muscles, and joints. However, no matter the scale,
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