From Tom: What is Spatial Medicine? We tend to think of ‘medicine’ as a monolith, but of course there are different kinds. If we think of the irreducibles of Space, Time, and Matter – matter unfolds in space over time – there’s a medicine for each. The most dominant form of medicine now is Material… Read more
YOGA INSTRUCTION
Regular Western anatomy makes no sense for yoga – Anatomy Trains is a practical and enlightening map of the connected sheets of fascia and muscle engaged by the yoga asanas. Even if you didn’t like anatomy, you will definitely value Anatomy Trains to help you see your students’ problems more clearly, as well as to deepen your own practice.
How Do I Start?
Kickoff your education with Anatomy Trains by reading Anatomy Trains Fourth Edition by Tom Myers. You’ll learn how the muscles are functionally linked in ‘myofascial meridians’ through the fascial webbing.
We also have a number of On Demand Learning courses geared towards movement professionals available on our website here.
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Why Smells Trigger Such Powerful Memories – commentary by Tom Myers
Editor’s note: Tom is referring to this article: Why Smells Trigger Such Powerful Memories It’s always been a ’thing’ – since Proust and before as the article mentions – how evocative of memories smells are. This article gives the what – vision and hearing and touch (read: proprioception also – people get so confused because… Read more
Imaging the first moments of a body plan emerging in the embryo – commentary by Tom Myers
From Tom: As a Structural Integrator seeking organisation along the body’s vertical axis, I have always wondered: What sets that axis in the body? I am not alone in this. This article does not answer the question yet, but points to how a solution might be found soon: https://phys.org/news/2021-02-imaging-moments-body-emerging-embryo.html The ovum is approximately a sphere,… Read more
Research: Deep Myofascial Kinetic Lines in Horses, Comparative Dissection Studies Derived from Humans
Following on from the lovely feedback we got from an equine worker after one of our Anatomy Trains courses, I am pleased to be able to post a new paper from Vibeke Sødring Elbrøn and Rikke M. Schultz, the Danish veterinarians who have been exploring the lines in the horse. This paper expands into the… Read more
