Your Body, Your Yoga: Learn Alignment Cues That Are Skillful, Safe, and Best Suited To You

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

The implications of this continuity of tissue were that the separately named muscle-to-tendon, bony periosteum, ligament and joint capsule together formed one continuous architecture. It was thickened, vascularised, innervated and invested with different qualities at different points of connection and disconnection. Nevertheless, the tissue in, aro

Twisting and rotational movements, which are normal for the hip socket joints, for example, when applied to the knees, ankles, or low back, wear on the joints. When there is a lack of movement in the hip sockets, the lumbar vertebrae of the lower spine become vulnerable to torsion.

There are three major components to our anatomy that are of particular interest to us as yoga teachers (and students): muscles, fascia/connective tissue and bones. In a very straightforward way we can say that muscles generate forces to move us, fascia resists tensile forces and shapes us, and bones transmit forces to take the burden off muscles.