Connective and separative - our fascia

Our body is layers of fascia (skin, inner fascia, muscles, linings of nerves,
ligaments and tendons, blood vessel walls, membranes and sinovial fluids
between bones, the organ linings of pleura, pericardia and peritineum).
Fascia, like onion peel layers, developed outward from an original intention
or folded inward to nurture a new design.
Our bodies have developed in the most efficient and best advantaged form/
alignment/function. The process is in growth from zygote into man or
woman, and even in the journey from the earlier forms of life from which
we've developed.

During our lives, these layers have places which have begun to adhere to
adjacent linings due to illness, shock or other injury, and which therefore
inhibit the healthy free movement of interior surfaces over each other.
Many yoga postures and movements are beneficial even though they may
seem as simple as a spinal cat-cow movement or gently rolling the neck.
They stretch certain areas which don't have the everyday opportunity to
oxidize and hydrate in their regular daily use.

(Thanks to a Tom Myers workshop for my new anatomical appreciation.)

: )ohn