Accusing an anatomist (or several generations of them) of designing anatomy instead of revealing it rocked a very big boat.

In fact, no bones in the living body are stacked. In a healthy body the bones do not touch each other.

(1) it is alive and anything but passive, (2) it is a sensory organ (see Ch. 9), (3) it is literally everywhere and (4) it is continuous throughout our form, on every scale, joining and relating everything to everything else. This combination of characteristics amounts to the recognition of the fascia as the master of our sense of where we are in

There is now a new level of understanding of the tissues of the “internal net”. These tissues work 24 hours a day to determine where we are in space, even as we sleep. No muscle or bone anywhere in the body ever works without them.

You can read and write about yoga, philosophy and anatomy until you are weary. However, without participation and cumulative experience you will not incorporate its incredible value into your tissues. It comes alive first and foremost in our felt sense, and not our technical explanations.

It is argued here that pandiculation might preserve the integrative role of the myofascial system by (a) developing and maintaining appropriate physiological fascial interconnections and (b) modulating the pre-stress state of the myofascial system by regularly activating the tonic musculature.”9 Is this perhaps Nature’s way of maintaining the

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.

“Another and more specific aspect is the innervation and direct connection of fascia with the autonomic nervous system. It now appears that the fascial tonus might be influenced and regulated by the state of the autonomic nervous system. Plus and this aspect should have ramifications for your work - any intervention in the fascial system might have

Katie’s body is containing and managing the internal changes of breathing. At the same time it is organising the external balance between gravity (drawing her toward the centre of the earth) and ground reaction force (her body instinctively resists, away from it). Thus her ability to “draw in” to her sense of her centre and at the same time reach