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

The word “biotensegrity” is a shortening of “biological tensile integrity”. It refers to a type of tensional, three-dimensional structure that is formed under tension and compression.

The ability to print and publish their theories allowed the founding philosophers, writers, artists, musicians and scholars in a wide variety of different fields to communicate their concepts and interpretations. Their ability to explore and develop their ideas, however, was intimately related to whether they were able to gain sanction or patronage

“After all, both organic and inorganic matter are made of the same building blocks; atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus. The only difference is how the atoms are arranged in three-dimensional space.”

While the body honours the basic organisation of our species, the shape (or morphology) of the connective tissue is invariably expressed uniquely by each one of us. That is because it responds to use, to nutrition, to hydration, to gesture and to us, as individuals. It depends on who and how we are and how we use it, all the time.

If the nervous system were to be considered as an organ rather than the multi-segmented structure it is commonly thought to be, it would lead to a far better understanding of the system and of the patho-mechanical and patho-physiological consequences of altering its mechanics. One of the greatest implications of ‘organ thinking’ is that, if there i

Mae-Wan Ho, The Rainbow and the Worm: The Physics of Organisms, 3rd edition, World Scientific Publishing,

The evolving understanding of fascia invites us to see and assess movement in whole gestures and consider the relationships of the parts to each other as paramount.

The external spaces in which we live, and around which we move, form and inform us in unique and reciprocal relationships. We form and inform our internal world in a similar way, searching for congruency and appropriate expression in harmony within and without. We grow, change shape and organise ourselves on many levels all the time, both within ou

A spider’s web, for example, is a tensional structure and can be said to have “tensile integrity”. However, it is not a tensegrity structure as such, because it requires an external frame. “Tensegrities are different – their forms are self-stabilized, independent of gravity and need no external support” (Tom Flemons2). Our ability to walk around an