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Myofascial Yoga: A movement and yoga therapists guide to asana
Our body is interconnected by day 14 in utero through fascia—mesoderm. We are literally born into our fascial patterns. Every day that we live and inter-relate with our environment, we adapt and take on our fascial patterns. In essence, “how we do what we do is who we become.”
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Marlo Fisken added 12d ago
I prefer the term client because student supposes that the teacher knows something more than the student and creates a power differential.
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Marlo Fisken added 12d ago
If you engage and lift up on the perineum and inhale notice that the diaphragm does not move as far south as compared to when you gently lift on the pelvic floor (levator ani and fascia) with less of a physical lift and more of an energetic engagement of the pelvic floor. The actual energetic spots of Mula Bandha are behind the cervix and behind th
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Marlo Fisken added 12d ago
When we inhale and expand our bellies, the diaphragm flattens and everything that is attached to it heads south toward the pelvic floor. With each exhale; as we draw our navels back, the diaphragm goes back to a neutral dome position.
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Marlo Fisken added 12d ago
The plantar fascia is a huge communicator to the whole body for where one is in space. Not being grounded through the plantar fascia is literally to be “out of balance.”
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Marlo Fisken added 12d ago
The stretch can be increased through the SL by engaging the shoulder blade toward the spine—shortening the rhomboids. For example, in a right twist you draw the scapula toward the spine and may add tucking the chin toward the right breast at 45 degrees, which stretches the left splenius capitis.
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Marlo Fisken added 12d ago
four types of mechanoreceptors in fascia.
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Marlo Fisken added 12d ago
As later research shows, that passive stretching of a myofascial tissue does not stimulate the Golgi tendon organs. Stimulation happens when the muscle fibers are actively contracted. For example, when a client takes seated forward fold and their toes and legs are relaxed they are in a passive mode, thus the Golgi tendon organs are not stimulated.
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Marlo Fisken added 12d ago
Our fascia is the largest and richest sensory organ of our body - with more nerves imbedded in it than even the eye or the tongue.
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Marlo Fisken added 12d ago