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"Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the operating definition of insanity." - Ben Franklin
What Led to the Anatomy Trains Idea?
The primary impetus for thinking about the musculo-skeletal system in an integrated, systems-based way came from Tom's time with Buckminster Fuller. Other contributors need to include R Luis Schultz, whose book, The Endless Web, contributed signally to Tom's thought, as Louis was the first to interpret Ida's intuitive findings in a formal way. One could say the Anatomy Trains was a second iteration of this process. More are to come. Dr Jim Oschman certainly affected Tom's system thinking about the body, especially when he handed him an article by Raymond Dart, the famous anthropologist and student of the Alexander Technique, entitled "The Double-Spiral Arrangement of Musculature in Man". This article detailed musculature now included in the Spiral and Functional Lines and set Tom thinking about what other continuities could be described. Deane Juhan wrote the book everyone was waiting for when Job's Body came out in 1987. The definitive - even now - book on the science of bodywork, Job's Body is both well-researched and brilliantly written. Deane combines the voice of a poet with the soul of a rebel with the exacting precision of a scientist in his analysis of the role bodywork can (and will) play in society's evolution. Deane has his own website: www.jobsbody.com. Deane and Tom broke ground, along with Jim Oschman and Caryn McHose, with The Broad Reach of Bodywork course in 1994 and 1995. Tom invited Deane to speak at the first IASI conference in Seattle in 2005. |
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Although many ideas from many people led to the Anatomy Trains, the work of 