Category: trauma
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Protected: the call of the flesh with Musclemonk
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Open Letter to a Marvelous Movement Philosopher
Dr. S-J, I am doing some deep historical and anatomical work into the muscle sense, I am a bodyworker, historian and theorist. I would love a chance to consult with you. Below is a recent presentation on perceptual bias and anatomy for your reference. I am currently working on the kinesiology of proprioception and would…
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How to face the Metacrisis
Embodying Musclemonk Day 178 Only me – Only Musclemonk knows what to do to face this Metacrisis: Biomechanical Enlightenment Learn how to save the world with muscle. Learn how to activate the body’s five major bony synapses. https://vimeo.com/1096829359 The bony synapses are complex sensory motor fields organized in arrays of bones, muscles, the powerful fascial…
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Attention, World!
Attention world! The arm was built to have an active sense of axillary (scapular) grip. This is where we organize the movemeant. Not for gods sake the shoulder. Try it! It’s natural. Revelation! If you do it will feel like revelation. Biomechanical Enlightenment! The revelation is just the facticity of your own skeleton–your own anatomy.…
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Touch, the absence of touch, and trauma. Reflections on the recent 2023 USABP Annual Meeting.
In a world where everyone is profoundly touch deprived then yes, touch can easily equal trauma, or invoke traumatic memories, because it is unexpected and because it can be manipulative and because we are not connected to each other in such a world. In my mind this, the 18th meeting of this association, was evidence…
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The Anatomy of Self Awareness
The human body is self-reproducing, self-organizing, and self-healing, but not without self-awareness.
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The revolution that starts from within:
the importance of understanding our own anatomy. The body is self reproducing, self organizing and self healing. The human body does all of this, but not without self-awareness. If animals are able to renegotiate many forms of even quite dramatic trauma that occur in a natural environment, shouldn’t the same be true for us? Wouldn’t…
Three Bones Theory 