Anatomy
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Watching these videos is an important piece of your training, We’ve laid out the timing to watch this videos to get the best out of your training.
We’re presenting anatomy from the functional perspective and for that reason we believe anatomists Tom Myers and Kristin Leal offer a solid approach to learning functional and holistic anatomy.
Before joining your first module:
Anatomy Introduction
Basic Funcrional Movement
Skeletal System
Properties of Fascia
Before your 2nd weekend:
Fascia One - Tensegrity
Fascia Two - Myofascial Meridians
Before your 3rd weekend:
Joints
Shoulder Girtle
Pelvic Girtle
Spine
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Instructions:
Write an Anatomy Analysis of ONE posture. Your posture will be assigned on your first day of Teacher Training.
STEP 1 - Utilize all the materials in this training to write out cueing of the posture as a guide for transition, basic body positioning, and breath
STEP 2 - Insert which muscles, bones, and ligaments that facilitate the movement and create muscular/organic energy.
Download a sample analysis here. Please do not use the same posture for your analysis.
The analysis is due by the last weekend of training.
Anatomy Library
Lesson Materials
Myofascial Trains
“Whatever else they may be doing individually, muscles also operate across functionally integrated body-wide continuities within facial webbing. These sheets and lines follow the warp and weft of the body's connective tissue fabric, forming traceable ‘meridians' of myofascia.” ~ Thomas Myers ~
These Lines help us to understand the methodology and how to create sequencing that will follow anatomic harmony. Myofascial Lines organize our therapeutic vision which creates healthy sequencing.
Arm Lines
Postural function: Since the arms hang from the upper skeleton in our upright posture, they are not part of the structural column as such. Given their weight ‘however and their multiple links to our daily activities, the Arm Lines do have a postural function: strain from the elbow affects the mid-back, and shoulder malposition can create significant drag on the ribs, neck, breathing functions, and beyond.
Movement function: In myriad daily manual activities of examining, manipulating, responding to, and moving through the environment, our arms and hands perform these tensile continuities. The Arm Lines act across the 10 or so levels of joints in the arm to bring things toward us, push them away, pull, push or stabilize our own body, or simply hold part of the world still for our perusal or modification.
Functional Lines
Postural function: These lines are less involved in standing posture than any of the other lines. They involve superficial muscles that are so much in use during day-to-day activities that their opportunity to stiffen or facially shorten to maintain posture is minimal. These lines do have strong postural stabilization functions in positions like yoga poses that require stabilizing the upper girdle to the trunk.
Movement function: These lines enable us to give extra power and precision to the movement of the limbs by lengthening their lever arm through linking them across the body to the opposite limb in the other girdle. They are essential in the contralateral counterbalance between shoulder and hip in every walking step and in sports movements like kicking or throwing a ball.
Lateral Lines
Postural function: The LL functions posturally to balance front and back, and bilaterally to balance left and right.
Movement function: The LL participates in creating a lateral bend in the body - lateral flexion of the trunk, abduction at the hip and eversion at the foot - but also functions as an adjustable ‘brake' for lateral and rotational movements of the trunk.
Superficial Back Lines
Postural function: The overall postural function of the SBL is to support the body in full extension, to prevent the tendency to curl over into flexion
Movement function: With the exception of the flexion at the knees and plantar flexion at the ankle, the overall movement function of the SBL is to create extension and hyperextension. Because we are born in a flexed position, with our focus very much inward, the development of strength, competence, and balance in the SBL is associated with the slow wave of maturity moving from this primary flexion into a full and easily maintained extension.
Superficial Front Line
Postural function: The overall postural function of the SFL is to balance the Superficial Back Line, and to provide tensile support from the top to lift those parts of the skeleton which extend forward of the gravity line - the pubis, ribcage and face.
Movement function: The overall movement function of the SFL is to create flexion of the trunk and hips, extension at the knee, and dorsiflexion of the foot.
Spiral Lines
Postural function: The SL functions posturally to wrap the body in a double spiral that helps to maintain balance across all planes. The SL connects the foot arches with the pelvic angle, and helps to determine knee-tracking in walking.
Movement function: the overall movement function of the SL is to create and mediate spirals and rotations in the body
Deep Front Line
Postural function: The DFL plays a major role in the body's support:
• lifting the inner arch
• stabilizing each segment of the legs
• supporting the lumbar spine from the front
• stabilizing the chest while allowing the expansion and relaxation of breathing
• balancing the fragile neck and heavy head atop it all Lack of support, balance and proper tonus in the DFL will produce overall shortening in the body, encourage collapse in the pelvic and spinal cord, and lay the groundwork for negative compensatory adjustments in all the other lines.
Movement function: There is no movement that is strictly the province of the DFL, aside from hip adduction yet neither is any movement outside its influence.
Compared to our other lines, this line commands definition as a three-dimensional space, rather than a line. Of course, all the other lines are volumetric as well, but are more easily seen as lines of pull. The DFL very clearly occupies space.
