Contrology and the Bodylines™ : The Integral Body - Fascia - Tensegrity
Whether our intention is to interconnect to the neu myofascia to help us understand the Contrology vision and learn the Pilates Method, or whether it is to use the origins of the Contrology 'vocabulary' and teachings as a tool to connect to and restore the 'state' and tension integrity of the neuromyofasciae; either way we are working with and realising the body as a structure of Tensegrity , and either way we are able to re establish a full communication to and a reconnecting of the whole body 'network'. When supporting the architectural alignment of the skeletal structure in this balanced 'sea' of tension (tone) , the body moves as a whole, there are no isolated incidents, it is fully stabilised and ' uniformely developed' (Joe Pilates), communicating the requisite 'give and take' within the fibres needed for strain free co operation.
Working with the neurmyofascia to create this 'moving structure of tensegrity ', the 'dance' of tension and compression among the muscles, fascia, bones and joints, where 'isalnds of compression are floating in a sea of tension' (Tom Myers) we become free from gravitational pull and the destructive chaos of internal compression. The tensegrity body creates ‘space’ for all the mechanisms of the body to reside, function and communicate in synchrony and in harmony, creating a coherence that is requisite of health and capable of preserving both age and Life.
But there is more, a phenomenal potential for healing on all levels. Through the body’s fascia we communicate not only to our entire anatomy but to the deepest parts of ourselves, for our whole ‘state of being’ sits within these tissues. Once stirred, through integration, movement or touch, we are working with our whole consciousness, our state of mind within the body and the influencing voice of our beliefs.
So not only can we regain functional movement, reawaken full movement potential, and create an eternal equilibrium, but we can realise the very cause that is limiting us. Pilates didn't call it ‘Return to Life’ for nothing.
The Needle Tower from above. A Tensegrity Spine
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