Yoga: Fascia, Anatomy and Movement: Fascia, Form and Functional Movement

the hands are used more as magnets than as hammers. Fingertips are eloquent tools and, depending to some extent upon the participant, suitable guidance might follow a “less is more” direction. Firm quiet hands give clear simple messages; kinaesthetic comments with signals designed to encourage self-organisation.

The most powerful question I have ever heard with regard to ethical practice around this point is “What is in your heart?”. If you are intuitively intelligent enough to understand these movements and their integration, then you can use that same sense to know your own agenda. If it is not to adjust and assist your student to honestly optimise their

New word: nous “Nous” is not a new word but an old one. It comes from the philosophers of ancient Greece, where the principles of form and architecture and Sacred Geometry arose. Noesis is a word over which there is much discussion but it points towards “knowing” as a sense of awareness. Using your “nous” (pronounced in British English like “mouse”

Are there fundamental principles that we should adhere to? Integrity, subtlety and remembering one’s own kinespheric balance, before combining it with the person being adjusted. It is a conversation between two intelligent systems that become one in that moment of adjustment.

The invitation is to do less and breathe fully, exploring the pose by feeding back to the centre, rather than reaching from it, to their limits.

Our fascial form rests in tension, pre-stiffened, as the network of our matrix, at the middle phase (Ch. 8). This gives us the ability to expand globally and squeeze globally.

The three positions encourage fuller breath in the lower ribs, front-to-back body and upper chest. The student is guided to gently expand the breath, from the breathing innersphere – inside out. (As distinct from activating muscles to force breathing action from the outside-in.)

Simply pausing in your day (at your desk, in the shower, wherever works) once or twice a day to take a few breaths and be present to breathing as an expression of vitality contributes to expanding our awareness. Over time it enlarges the ability to gradually bring this fundamental bodily rhythm into consciousness (not thinking about it but being co

The fascia will respond globally to even a tiny gesture of recognition.