It gives me great pleasure to be able to introduce the work of John Hull Grundy. I am very grateful to both Christopher Smith, D. O., an English osteopath who gave permission for these plates to be reprinted. Structural Integration practitioner Jeffrey Linn also deserves credit for introducing me to the book in the first place.

The plates in this article are a small but representative selection from Human Structure and Shape, by John Hull Grundy, first published in 1982 in hardback by Noble Books in Chilbolton, Hampshire, UK. You may be able to find the entire book through rare book finders or the internet, but few copies exist, the author is deceased, and the book itself is out of print.

The commentary that accompanies each plate is my own, designed to interpret the pictures in a way relevant to today's somatic therapist. The commentary is definitely weighted toward my own structural style of working, but Grundy's engaging artistic style and his wit will make this article fun and useful for even the lay person. You don't have to be interested in all the details of anatomy to feel Grundy's love for form and function. Anyone can draw inspiration from his refreshing take on body mechanics, and from the breath of life in movement that imbue every one of his drawings.