Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy and Movement, Second Edition

From anatomy to architecture, from biomechanical to biomotional, and from classical to connected, this book speaks to all bodies, in all modalities, in a world seeking unity and connection more than ever. "Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy and Movement" was written partly as an appeal for yoga teachers to appreciate the depth and breadth of yoga as a science, a movement practice, and a philosophy that fundamentally espouses wholeness as the basis of living anatomy and form. Yoga calls for unifying who and how we are, and as teachers, how we can help our clients, who are all different, move better.

Classical anatomy in the West divides the body into its component parts and traditionally reduces its functionality to those parts, usually described in 2D iconic forms and founded in lever-based mechanics. In the East, such reductionism was never espoused, and this book covers two huge bases to bridge the difference and upgrade the understanding of yoga to 21st-century anatomy. The first is to recognize that the leading edge of fascia science changes all those reductionist views anatomically and biomechanically. This is carefully explained in the first part of the book and shows how the new science of body architecture actually makes perfect sense of the yogic philosophy of union and wholeness.

The second is to take this paradigm shift and apply it in practice, to the subtle understanding of the fascial architecture and how that helps us move better. "Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy and Movement" attempts to ask questions, find suitable research, and make all this practical and applicable to teachers and practitioners of all types. Indeed, it teaches posture profiling and creating class mandalas to support this. It is a contemporary yoga teacher's bible.