Core Awareness, Revised Edition: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance

The use of solid elements (bone) and elastic elements (myofascia) requires the presence of a certain amount of prestress. It is the contribution of “tension” that gives the structure “integrity” (and it is the combination of these two words

of these tissues adapt, meaning they can become stronger, more flexible, and more resilient. But they can also, if not loaded adequately, become weaker, less flexible, and less resilient.

There is, however, a much more valuable and powerful distinction available, once we appreciate the myofascial body and its structure, which lies in recognising elasticity as paramount. Elasticity is the source of our energy storage capacity. Once we understand it – and there are a lot of misconceptions around it – we have an immeasurably valuable r

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