A Handful of Bones

I teach a handful of bones along the axial line, part of the myofascial synergy called the deep core by Thomas Myers. It’s our postural center. The bones are central, prominent coordination centers facilitating interoception, stability and balance. They are shaped like grips and levers and are practically speaking bony servomechanisms for co-operating or conscious participation in our deeper postural core. Simple attention to these bony servomechanisms, meaning gentle neurological activation, helps to balance the system but also brings us into that deep core postural animal we all possess. Activation of these coordinative centers balances our posture and helps to relieve and repattern the compensations that cause in the most common joint complaints.

I advocate starting from within. First, we can recognize what modern reason has methodologically excluded: life itself, specifically the wisdom of the body and the earth, as well as tradition. The Enlightenment of abstract reason was a radical break with tradition, and normalized objectification and reductionism as common sense. It is a senseless common sense. The current emerging paradigm is another radical break, but a return to wholeness and a somatic, ecological restoration of our senses. There is some pretty radical science and research going on around topics like embodied cognition and the extended mind or Gaia theory and how the mind is connected within in between ourselves and the world around us. But the fact of the matter is as simple as can be and starts by looking within. We know what it means here in this forum. Some of us remember a time when things were simpler. As for me I teach the anatomy of the interoceptive sensory motor system. A handful of bones link us together within and between ourselves and the world around us. I will teach about this at the upcoming Deep Live Gathering.