I prefer the term client because student supposes that the teacher knows something more than the student and creates a power differential.

four types of mechanoreceptors in fascia.

Deep to the fat is a unitard of tough fascia that really determines our shape. Below this are the various layers that surround and invest the muscles, and form walls between muscles and muscle groups - these are the layers actually called the myofascia. Deep to the muscles are the ligaments and periosteum (the plastic wrap around the bone). The fas

There is a beautiful piece of fascia that forms a band around the ankle—the retinaculum. The retinaculum keeps all the muscles from just flying off of the leg! Of course, it can also prevent the slide and glide needed if it is bound down too tight.

If you choose a more rigid, locked down pelvic floor, the result is less breath capacity and hypertonicity of the pelvic floor muscles! Nicole Crawford, MS in Biomechanics states that “a Kegel attempts to strengthen the pelvic floor, but it really only continues to pull the sacrum inward promoting even more weakness, and more pelvic floor gripping.

The knee is a secondary curve in the body because it is held in place by the muscles above and below unlike primary curves which are defined by the bone, such as the ankle. I encourage a soft knee, not hyperextended backward, and not a deep bend.

Remember, our whole body is connected and indeed, as we twist in the body, we twist the dura mater (tough mother) and fascia in the brain.

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.”

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.