Tensegrity = Tension Integrity.. …where islands of compression (bones) float in a sea of balanced tension (elasticity/fascia)

Tensegrity = Continuous tension -dis-continuous compression

Body compensations and adaptation patterns to stress changes is primary to our movement patterns and symptoms.

There are no symptoms only patterns (Myers)

In a Tensegrity structure, an isolated problem or event does not exist. There is only the response of the whole. (Fuller)

Tensegrity, a Buckminster Fuller term, was originally a term coined in the engineering of suspension bridges as a way to define distribution of force through structure. When a part of a suspension bridge is weak or compromised, the entire structure responds to balance out the problem. The power & stability of a suspension bridge is in the ability to move or adapt under stress load changes. The same can be said for the human body.

Tensegrity and Joseph Pilates:

Joseph Pilates' teachings indicate and intend a whole structure being held by opposing forces, creating a uniform state of tension (elasticity/tone) to maximum capacity for stability, wholeness, integration and balance. This is the basis of a Tensegrity structure.

If we hear the first 'vocabulary' and apply them precisely as intended, the myofascia is progressively renegotiated and reorganised forming and developing a fully integrated fascial web in balanced tension (tone), moving and supporting the skeletal structure in stability, with resilience, adaptability, efficiency, with ease and with grace. working with the entire tension network of this fascial ‘web’ we free the body from the chaos of gravitational pull and the effects of internal compression. 

The depth of the concept of ‘ Tensegrity ’ can have vast applications, from engineering a bridge, to an understanding of the fascial system of the human body, to philosophical & spiritual debates. Based on the Trinity, the Human Body is a Tensegrity bridge suspended between Spirit and Matter.

Tensegrity designs allow a dynamic system of movement where the whole moves the part, the part moves the whole & the circle is unbroken( Fuller)