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Ep301 - Mary Bond | The New Rules Of Posture: How To Sit, Stand and Walk

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How to Be More Like Biotensegrities and Less Like Stacks of Bricks

Buckminster Fuller called it tensegrity. You can see that if you change the tension in just one of those strings, the whole structure would change its shape and orientation a little bit. That's how we work too. Even the vertebrae,. the individual vertebrae in your spine can float and respond inside this network of tension. But we don't think of it that way. We talk about the spine as a column. It's more similar in quality to the spine than the Washington Monument is. So how do we learn to behave more like biotensegrities and less like stacks of bricks? Well it’s helpful to think or imagine back to prehistoric times

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