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

and another quality entirely between your scalp and your skull bones or over the back of your elbow. All that sliding is the superficial fascia, which is effectively the back of the skin, moving over the deep fascia, which is over the muscles enclosing the bones. Between them is a layer of what is called “loose connective tissue”, sometimes referre

We often tend to keep still in order to avoid chronic pain. Research into low back pain suggests that such immobility results in matted tissues (see Fig. 7.9) and patients show decreased proprioception.23 Thus, the implication is that improved proprioception, and the fostering of appropriate movement and awareness of it, decreases the experience of

Every single muscle fibril, group of fibrils forming fibres, group of fibres forming bundles, group of fibre bundles forming the muscle belly and continuously extending beyond the muscle belly to form the tendinous part of the muscle is fascia. Fascia is what holds a group of muscles together, what attaches them through cross-links, as a group or i

It appears that the responsive nature of the tissues means that they become more hydrated and agile when they are moved and more solid and “matted” when they are

with Tom Myers, in Structural Integration and Anatomy Trains, had not prepared me for seeing muscles so intimately interwoven and continuous in longitudinal, lateral and layered relationships with all our parts and forms. They are anything but discrete units, even in cadavers. They are completely connected to each other and surrounded. Not even a s

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

Bodies are not linear systems and do not respond in a linear manner.

Laboratory for Anatomical Enlightenment in Boulder, Colorado,

Tensional integrity is an essential characteristic of biotensegrity architecture and elasticity (see Chs 4 and 8). It is deformation that the mechanoreceptors can detect: a change in tension or a shift between layers. Essentially, the tissue detects these subtle changes in the internal and external bodily environment. Notably, the essence of such a