Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy and Movement, Second Edition

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 into its component parts and traditionally reduces its functionality to those parts, usually described in 2 dimensional iconic forms, founded in lever-based mechanics. In the East, such reductionism in anatomy was never espoused. Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy and Movement covers two huge bases to bridge the difference between these two approaches and to upgrade our understanding of yoga to 21^st Century anatomy.

The first part of this extraordinary work recognises 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 makes sense of yogic philosophy of union and wholeness. The second part of the work takes this paradigm shift and applies it in practice to the subtle understanding of the fascial architecture and how that architecture helps us move better.

Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy and Movement attempts to ask questions, find suitable research and make all this knowledge and understanding practical and applicable to teachers and practitioners of a variety of movement and bodywork specialisms, including yoga. It teaches ‘posture profiling’ and the creation of ‘Class Mandalas’ to support this.

It is an essential resource for any movement worker.

Joanne Avison E-RYT500, IASI, C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, is an international teacher of applied structural anatomy for movement and manual practitioners. She teaches and practices Structural Integration (Anatomy Trains 1998-2005), Yoga Therapy and Spiritual Sciences in Surat Shabd Yoga – making sense of human motion, for humans being!