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

In this restorative approach, the arm is in fact being guided by the facilitator back towards the spine. Her hands are drawing towards each other, not pulling on the arm to stretch to the foot. (It is extremely difficult to show visually such subtleties of adjustment.) The result of this is that Alex can remain relaxed and fold forward incrementall

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

We are also beginning to establish that a key aspect of fascia and proprioception (our awareness in space) is our ability to sense ourselves. This does not just mean internally, absorbed in how we feel. It is our instinctive inner world response to our outer world; our relationships to it. We move through the body, not just from it and our physical

How this body-wide sensory system works could be likened to a kind of hierarchy in a walled city, where everyday details of the housekeeping do not bother the “head office” of the central nervous system: the brain. In this metaphor there are gatekeepers, regulating at various levels of management, throughout the whole connected sensory architecture

This was an essential aspect of Renaissance art: to capture the charisma (“charism” meaning soul-essence) of the subject(s) permanently.

“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

Neutral is not a default condition, resulting from the failure to make a decision, but rather an actively generated state which expands the point of view to include all possibilities.

yoga is essentially about continuity and connectedness. It is about what the parts can multiply up to, as unified, rather than what they divide down into, as fragmented. As much as we love to identify the fragments, identification must inspire or enhance our experience rather than reduce it to functional data or anatomical concepts. Body factions o

“The neuronal circuit controlling the rhythmic movements in animal locomotion is called the central pattern generator (CPG). The biological control mechanism appears to exploit mechanical resonance to achieve efficient locomotion.”

Fascia is referred to as our organ of organisation and its proprioceptive qualities are subtle and extensive. In yoga it is essentially the sensing of every part of us, in any given pose, relative to every other part and the mat. It speaks the instinctive language of movement because the body literally senses where it is and what it does all the ti