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“The easiest and most direct way to recover and embody love and respect for nature is through your body.” G.D.

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"Sharing similarities with our biological clock, the Ayurvedic clock combines the application of different life aspects including diet, exercise, meditation, yoga, and massage to create a balanced state between body, mind, and spirit. Its concept is that the rhythm of our body and mind is relative to the rhythm and energy of nature."

Ayurvedic Clock: A Clock that Rules It All - Circle Ayurvedic Clock is an art of balance. We need to condition ourselves to rest and be active at appropriate times so that our internal clock aligns with the natural rhythm.

"As we roll with the wheel of the year, a shift of energy is coming through our senses. Flowers start to bloom and new odors rise from the soil… the animals are preparing to have their young… the sun becomes stronger and the song of nature becomes louder… The Earth is fertile in estrus and invites all living beings to the party of creation. The moment of the shift, where the light of the active day becomes equal to the darkness of the receptive night is called Spring Equinox or Ostara…It is this moment of perfect balance between light and dark, inner world and outer manifestation, expansion and contraction, male and female, yin and yang."

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"Conditions such as arthritis could be treated by targeting vagus nerve receptors that control inflammation"
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Vagus nerve receptors may play a key role in controlling inflammation - The Insights Global Researchers have identified receptors in the vagus nerves of mice that help control inflammation, which could improve treatments for conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis where the pathway can malfunction Health January 18, 2023 Through Grace Wade Conditions such as arthritis could be treated by t...

"Wholeness supports and sustains us all the time, whether we recognise it, appreciate it, or not. Wholeness is what we are a part of, and what we always express."

"Intimacy with your body is intimacy with Nature."

"You need to discover, and express, the richness of your nature, especially its spiritual dimension. For we are spiritual beings as much as we are biological beings."

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To make easier to find the studio space, I am now on google map. I've set up at the beautiful studio of Aloha Joga in Prague 6, Dejvicka. Looking forward to seeing you there! Yustine

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FASCIAL COMPARTMENTS
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[FASCIAL ANATOMY - OSTEOPATHIC APPROACH]
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Posterior view of the pelvic region reveals interesting fascial links from thorax to pelvis to lower extremity.
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This view is much closer to reality that many “muscle only” pictures.

The concept of named muscles is a manifestation of isolationist dissectors of years past who likely equated their findings on a dissection table to that of a butcher.
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Protein “cuts” seemed to take shape and were named as muscles. However, this illustration shows the real anatomy which is an interconnected web of connective tissue that happens to have “compartments” that house contractile protein bundles.
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The left side shows the fascial compartments for the glute max, semimembranosus and biceps femoris. On the right the compartment for the quadratus femoris is shown with the muscle protein removed.
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One can easily see how muscle chains are the true reality as no muscle is isolated but is in fact just compartments along a much larger fascial system.
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This concept can change the clinician’s approach to myofascial therapy or acupuncture. The best therapeutic effects may come from targeting fascial lines or chains rather than individual muscles only. Always think links.
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Credit Anatomy Links & Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery (J. M. Bourgery & N. H. Jacob)
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"Your psoas muscles are vital not only to your structural well-being, but also to your psychological well-being because of their connection to your breath."

🔈 WHY ARE THE PSOAS MUSCLES CONSTANTLY CONTRACTED DURING PROLONGED PERIODS OF STRESS?

Whether you run, bike, dance, practice yoga, or just hang out on your couch, your psoas muscles are involved. That’s because your psoas muscles are the primary connectors between your torso and your legs. They affect your posture and help to stabilise your spine.

The psoas muscles are made of both slow and fast twitching muscles. Because they are major flexors, weak psoas muscles can cause many of the surrounding muscles to compensate and become overused. That is why a tight or overstretched psoas muscle could be the cause of many or your aches and pains, including low back and pelvic pain.

👩‍🔬 ANATOMY

Structurally, your psoas muscles are the deepest muscles in your core. They attach from your 12th thoracic vertebrae to your 5 lumbar vertebrae, through your pelvis and then finally attach to your femurs. In fact, they are the only muscles that connect your spine to your legs.

Your psoas muscles allow you to bend your hips and legs towards your chest, for example when you are going up stairs. They also help to move your leg forward when you walk or run.

Your psoas muscles are the muscles that flex your trunk forward when bend over to pick up something from the floor. They also stabilize your trunk and spine during movement and sitting.

👩‍🔬 THE PSOAS AND FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE

The psoas muscles support your internal organs and work like hydraulic pumps allowing blood and lymph to be pushed in and out of your cells.

Your psoas muscles are vital not only to your structural well-being, but also to your psychological well-being because of their connection to your breath.

Here’s why: there are two tendons for the diaphragm (called the crura) that extend down and connect to the spine alongside where the psoas muscles attach. One of the ligaments (the medial arcuate) wraps around the top of each psoas. Also, the diaphragm and the psoas muscles are connected through fascia that also connects the other hip muscles.

These connections between the psoas muscle and the diaphragm literally connect your ability to walk and breathe, and also how you respond to fear and excitement. That’s because, when you are startled or under stress, your psoas contracts.

In other words, your psoas has a direct influence on your fight or flight response!

During prolonged periods of stress, your psoas is constantly contracted. The same contraction occurs when you:

➡️ sit for long periods of time
➡️ engage in excessive running or walking
➡️ sleep in the fetal position
➡️ do a lot of sit-ups

💡 Here are some tips for getting your psoas back in balance:

✔️ Avoid sitting for extended periods
✔️ Add support to your car seat
✔️ Try Resistance Flexibility exercises
✔️ Get a professional massage
✔️ Release stress and past traumas
✔️ Stretch

💡 HOW TO STRETCH

Roller Psoas Stretch
Use a foam roller for this passive, relaxing stretch that lengthens your psoas, one of your deep hip flexors.

1. Place the roller perpendicular to your spine and lie with your sacrum (the back of your pelvis) — not your spine — on the roller.
2. Pull your left knee toward your chest, keeping your right heel on the ground. You should feel a stretch on the front of your right hip.
3. To increase the stretch, reach your right arm over your head and open your left knee slightly out to the left.
Hold for 30 seconds, then switch legs. Repeat as needed.

"The body is where all your wounds are stored. Your neuromuscular tissues are distorted and restricted by traumatic past experience into debilitating perceptual and behavioural pathways. These pathways can be replaced." https://www.godfreydevereux.com/blog/the-error-correction-error?fbclid=IwAR1L9FH9QIfsC5VTW0gGFza8QZfQeDkJ1tH6jW5Qq4BT92WZQostB0BRVfg

The Error Correction Error Being broken is the norm for human beings. We can imagine a time when human beings lived and loved sanely, unrestricted by neurosis, psychosis, individual and collective trauma; but we are not living...

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Happy Valentine’s Day! We hope this beautiful specimen of the fascial continuity of the pericardium and respiratory diaphragm will inspire you today. Imagine how the pericardium and heart are gently stretched and released with every inhalation and exhalation!



This plastinate beautifully reveals the intimate connection of the respiratory diaphragm and the heart through their fasciae. The fascial covering of the heart, the pericardium, seen at the top and center, is completely continuous with the fascia of the diaphragm below. This kind of fascial relationship is often omitted in illustrations which highlight the muscles and organs without their related connective tissue. In this specimen, instead of removing the pericardium to show the heart, we carefully pried away the heart from its protective sleeve, leaving behind an empty pericardial sack and attached diaphragm.

Focusing on the connections of things instead of only the separateness, adds a missing piece to our thinking and to how we conceptualize the human body. Demonstrating this remarkable fascial relationship through plastination is an excellent tool for fascial anatomy education of the deep structures of the torso.

Craniosacral Therapy is perfect to release these tensions💚

“This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way...’
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Han Chengli - Inner Mongolian Child, Hulunbuir, (Butedmaa) and Camel, 2003.

"Your body contains all the information of the history of the cosmos. In every cell of your body, you can recognize the presence of your ancestors. Not only human ancestors, but animal, vegetation, mineral ancestors. And if you can get in touch with your body, you can get in touch with the whole cosmos – with all your ancestors and all the future generations that are already inside of your body." - Thich Nhat Hanh

"SBS restrictions are common and occasionally can cause the entire craniosacral system to lock down upon itself, thus distorting not only the entire head and face but the body, too."

The Craniosacral System and Sphenobasilar Restrictions—How Common, How Important? Written and illustrated by Tad Wanveer, L.M.B.T., C.S.T.-D. SBS = Sphenobasilar Symphysis (the articulation of the sphenoid with the occiput) Viola Frymann, D.O., F.A.A.O., performed a study of 1,2…

godfri says: "..... going deeper means more than getting in touch with your feelings, or uncovering your unconscious fears and assumptions. that may happen as you slip beneath the surface. going deeper means to relinquish completely any concern about your life, your experience, your identity. it means to relax so deeply about what is apparently happening that you slip beneath what is actually happening into the awesome presence of your impersonal nature: to be bathed in the peace without a cause, to be nourished by the love without an object, to be enlivened by the joy without a reason that you most deeply and permanently are."