Editor’s note: this is Tom’s Thanksgiving post from 2015. Enjoy! We know from our stats and ping backs that this blog gathers readers from all over the world, but here in the US we are pausing for our unique holiday of Thanksgiving. Oh, there are harvest festivals in nearly every culture, but Thanksgiving was first… Read more
This very morning I was joking in our training class about “The Year of the…” “The Year of the…” is an important element of bodywork practice (or really nearly any craft). After your first apprenticeship to your craft – let’s stay with bodywork here, so after your education as a massage therapist, physio, chiropractor, yoga… Read more
Notes from the American Association of Anatomists Regional Meeting by guest blogger, Lauri Nemetz In the latest in my own anatomy adventures, I was at the regional NYC meeting of the American Association of Anatomists on November 5th, taking in a day of learning and also presenting my poster on “Space for Well-being: Understanding How… Read more
Thanks to guest blogger Lauri Nemetz for her fascinating report. Fascial Manipulation and Anatomy Day at Touro with Antonio Stecco Open nearly any health or fitness magazine (or even gym schedule) and the word “fascia” often pops out. However popular it has become with self-proclaimed experts and blasters everywhere, the science behind it is still… Read more
The sheets of the endoplasmic reticulum, (and, I suspect, the same will be true for the ‘sheets’ of the Golgi apparatus) turns out to be made of vibrating and adaptable tubes. Just like our nervous system, circulatory system, and fascial fibrous body – all tubular. (See Ch 1 of Anatomy Trains, 3rd edition.) Check out… Read more
OK, I’ll admit it – I am not much for organised sports. I was awkward and inept at them when I was a child. I have gravitated to solo activities where I’m in competition – if any – with myself. In hiking, the opponent is the hill. In sailing, I manage a device for dancing… Read more
