This is not rocket science. The body responds to loading patterns. If we load it in the fetal position for long enough it will adapt to it until that pattern becomes comfortable. This does not imply that it is optimal. It just means it becomes habitual and easier in the short term. It changes the position of the pelvis, the torso is distorted, the

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 a

Descartes sought sanction directly from the Pope to use human bodies for his dissections, to study anatomy and properly demonstrate his point of view and analysis of function. He argued that human behaviour itself was evidence of the fact that the mind and the body were entirely separate. Thus, when the Pope sanctioned dissection on the grounds tha

How did we come to consider the parts of the body as anything other than entirely continuous? They are united by the fabric and forms of the axial (except girdles and limbs) and appendicular (girdles and limbs) skeleton, wrapping them in the continuous matrix of tissues and continuously wrapped in periost: the fascia around all the bones. In the em

This squeezing, which seems to be part of priming their bodies, makes the animal ready to deploy the potential to pounce or sprint as required. It seems they maximise their catapult capacity by tensioning the whole matrix. Even their fur stands on end, perhaps for super-sensitivity to the task. Cheetahs, like many other mammals, focus and draw thei

If we sit slumped onto the very back of the sitting bones, with the “tail tucked under”, we are sitting on the sacral roof of the pelvis, instead of allowing the coccyx to float in its natural tensegrity architecture11 and the tail bone to be free. We are effectively following the primal instincts of an animal, wearing our “tail between our legs” i

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.

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

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