Yoga: Fascia, Anatomy and Movement by Avison Joanne

Author:Avison, Joanne [Avison, Joanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Handspring Publishing
Published: 2015-02-25T22:00:00+00:00

More than Mechanics

Schleip, as a practitioner, movement teacher and researcher, has covered many aspects of the fascia as a sensory organ in a series of articles for the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies.24 In these he demonstrates that the tissue has many and various properties beyond the purely mechanical; neural dynamics for example. There are three aspects particularly relevant to yoga practice. They are:

•Adjustment: how do we enter the kinaesthetic conversation with our clients? (see Part 2, Ch. 14)

•How do we foster sensory awareness?

•The direct relationship to autonomic system regulation.

One participant in my weekly class, who began yoga at 75 years of age and is 84 at the time of writing, commented one day that he frequently stands in Tree Pose (Vriksasana) while cleaning his teeth, just to test his balance. In the morning he does it on his left leg, at night the right leg. He loves it because he has the sink for support if needed. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he walks easily for some distance daily and claims to be growing younger by the day. Upon falling on a muddy slope he laughed it off and showed no more ill effects than would be expected of a young man. Perhaps our sensory calibration is cumulative to an extent? (Case presented with permission of the participant.)

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