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A regularly updated compendium of articles, videos, podcasts, and interviews with Anatomy Trains author Tom Myers and friends, as well as Anatomy Trains 4th edition companion resources.

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Enjoy an article (quoting Tom Myers!) on fascia in the January 2023 issue of Prevention Magazine.

Source: Prevention Magazine

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Anatomy Trains in Motion (ATiM) is an in-depth course for movement and bodywork professionals who love integral anatomy and body-minded exercise applications that relate to real-life in all of its dimensions. This resource-oriented education focuses on the qualities of Thomas W. Myers’ Anatomy Trains concept that enhances everyday functionality and…

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Podcast Name: Joint Dynamics - Intelligent Movement Series

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In This Episode You Will Learn: Why we need touch as electrical beings. The importance of finding a mentor. The number one asset you should look for in a massage school.

Podcast Name: East West College Podcast

Runtime: 0:30:32

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Bernice Landels is the winner of the 2019 Ida P. Rolf Research Foundation’s case report award for her submission Structural Integration: A Global Intervention Challenging the Limitations of Local Rehabilitation. The report followed the case of a client who received structural integration following ankle surgery. Local results were increased mobility and…

Source: Anatomy Trains blog

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“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.” – Thicht Nhat Hanh We invite you for a special glimpse into our Anatomy Trains Structural Integration (ATSI) classroom in Maine withAnatomy Trains author and bodywork pioneer Tom Myers. In this short…

Source: Anatomy Trains YouTube

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An excellent reference for Chapter 9 of Anatomy Trains 4th edition. Special offer: Anatomy Trains 4th edition readers get a discount on this video. Please email info@anatomytrains.com for details! In this exciting video course Anatomy Trains author Tom Myers, you will discover a new understanding of your core that is…

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This set includes Fascial Tensegrity, Myofascial Meridians, Superficial Front Line, Superficial Back line, Lateral Line, Spiral Line, Shoulder & Arm Lines, Functional Lines, Deep Front Line for pelvis and legs, Deep Front Line for trunk and neck.

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Knowledge of the Anatomy Trains lines as outlined in Anatomy Trains 4th edition is greatly enhanced by taking part in one of our fascial dissection courses. Now featuring highly accessible livestreams!

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This new edition features an enhanced eBook format included with purchase as well as new photos and images throughout both text versions.

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Source: Anatomy Trains YouTube

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For our sixth episode of Therapists Together we are joined by a very special guest, Tom Myers. Tom’s Anatomy Trains textbook and charts are referenced daily by therapists around the world and his extensive catalogue of instructional videos make his unique approach to therapy available to all. However, Tom is…

Source: Holistic College Dublin - YouTube

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Research on the fascial system – as busy as ever – is proceeding along three major lines: the chemical cascades involved, the interaction with our neurology, and the primary architecture of the network, in parallel with the practical studies in these pages that test particular methodologies in light of such…

Source: Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies

Author: Thomas W Myers

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English with French subtitles. Tom Myers demonstrates BodyReading for Elsevier Masson in France.

Source: Elsevier Masson YouTube

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Source: Elsevier Masson YouTube

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Source: Elsevier Masson YouTube

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Source: Elsevier Masson YouTube

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Source: Elsevier Masson YouTube

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“This is an immensely rewarding practice. It will support you in your physical body (if you work with good biomechanics), your emotional development for sure, there’s plenty of intellectual stimulation in the field if you want it, not to mention a good financial living to be had from it—and you…

Source: ABMP Blog

Author: Tom Myers

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As this century turned, the concept of core and core massage became a thing for both the massage and movement worlds. It suddenly became imperative to awaken, strengthen and know about your core. Since then, no small amount of ink has been spilled to explain and expand what core is and why…

Source: Massage Magazine

Author: Tom Myers

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“All therapeutic interventions, of whatever sort, are a conversation between two intelligent systems. Whatever is happening to the tissue under our hands, we are also communicating with the client’s nervous system.”

Source: Massage Magazine

Author: Tom Myers

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Source: Massage Magazine

Author: Karen Menehan

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Counteracting Your Digital Obsession – Unwinding your Neuromyofascial Web

Source: Google

Runtime: 46:33

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Tom Myers is interviewed in this compelling documentary created by Bruce Schonfeld.

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The medicine of the future will have to focus on healing the epidemic of lifestyle-related diseases by changing behavior, says Tom Myers, author of Anatomy Trains in this interview. Yoga, bodywork and other therapies that tap into the transformative potential of the body’s fascial network have an important role to play…

Source: YogaU Online

Author: Eva Norlyk Smith

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Source: Parvati Magazine

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Tom Myers returns to The Body Awake for a third interview. Tom and Liam talk about, among other things, about: making one’s living as a bodyworker or movement teacher; the graces and pitfalls of the commercial vs academic spheres the full flowering, or “five fingers,” of a fully integrated bodywork…

Podcast Name: The Body Awake Podcast with Liam Bowler

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YogaUOnline: You once said, “Our body is our most proximate, intimate, and useful tool. And yet, we graduate from school learning more about the principal exports of Chile than we do about our own selves south of the neck.” What caused you to say that and how does it relate…

Source: YogaU Online

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A video interview with Tom Myers from Yoga U Online’s Eva Norlyk Smith

Source: Yoga U Online

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Source: Anatomy Trains YouTube

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Source: Anatomy Trains YouTube

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Podcast Name: The Body Awake Podcast with Liam Bowler

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Source: Anatomy Trains YouTube

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Source: Anatomy Trains YouTube

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Podcast Name: Align

Runtime: 1:02:29

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Source: YogaU Online

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Podcast Name: Rewild Yourself with Daniel Vitalis

Runtime: 2:25:25

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Podcast Name: The Body Awake Podcast with Liam Bowler

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Most any yoga practitioner knows the importance of full, deep diaphragmatic breathing to enhance wellbeing and reduce stress. However, while the diaphragm plays a significant role in respiration, it has many other important functions that are often overlooked.

Source: YogaU Online

Author: Eva Norlyk Smith

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Source: Yoga U Online - YouTube

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Source: Functional Patterns YouTube

Runtime: 49:30

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We get into various approaches & philosophies of working with pain instead of being confined by an over-simplified definition. We chat about timeless wisdom from various influential minds from history and how maintaining our body is nothing new necessitating the ‘latest’ technology and much more.

Podcast Name: Align

Runtime: 59:59

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Tom Myers, author of Anatomy Trains, talks with YogaUOnline.com about the role of fascia and how to apply the Anatomy Trains concepts to yoga, training, and the mechanics of healing. Tom discusses new insights into fascia as a biomechanical regulating whole body system.

Source: Yoga U Online

Runtime: 33:31

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Modern science is just catching up to the ancient wisdom of the mind-body connection and the effect that mental patterns (e.g., stress) can have on the body through biochemical pathways. Does this connection go the other way? That is, if mind affects body, is it possible to change our mental…

Source: Huffington Post

Author: Eva Norlyk Smith

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Western anatomy as we know it has been around for more than 500 years and still forms the foundation for the study of medicine and the approach to medical practice. But what if the anatomy texts of the past 500-plus years got it — at least partially — wrong? This…

Source: YogaU Online

Author: Eva Norlyk Smith

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Research shows why taking a different approach to exercise and the movement brain is the wave of the future.

Source: IdeaFit

Author: Tom Myers

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In his first Anatomist’s Corner column Myers wrote, “No matter who you are or what you do, your body is your dearest and most prominent tool. That is why we hands-on therapists create such close relationships with our clients — it’s because we work with everyone’s closest friend.” Myers goes…

Source: Originally published in Massage & Bodywork magazine, October/November 2003

Author: Darren Buford