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15/02/2018

Check out the post from Erik Dalton - an amazing teacher - about disc degeneration:

https://erikdalton.com/blog/why-we-get-short/

Does Muscle Decompression Therapy Help? The intervertebral discs are responsible for 25 percent of our spine’s overall length. Given that the average adu

12/12/2017

Check out the Christmas Sale of the Tensegrity Model
A limited amount of models now on sale before Christmas - get yours today on:

This model and sculpture is a wonderful possibility to show the principle of tensegrity to your clients. You can easily explore how the vertebras interact with each other in the tensegral framework of our spine - which kind of manipulation is appropriate to work with the patterns of the spine. Limit...

30/04/2017

Check out the new video about how to use the Tensegrity-Model of the spine to explain and experience the principle of tensegrity in our body:
When we work with clients to improve their movement and to establish a more efficient posture we should at first open their mindset to a new awareness of the body.
"If you can dream it - you can do it!" ... so if you are able to imagine that you have a bouncing and floating body, it's much easier to get the access to this super power :-)

You can buy it here: www.tensegrity-model.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF0yrJ7k5Zo

This tensegrity model of the spine is a wonderful demo that the bones of the spine are not designed to touch each other. To open the mindset of your clients ...

14/03/2017

... another close up how the vertebras are hanging down from the one below - like hanging out in a hammok ... (red rope)

14/03/2017

As you can see the vertebras don't touch each other in this tensegrity model of the spine - they float on top of each other and with the facet joints they only slide against each other

14/03/2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnAMM80ww0g

Stephen Massey demonstrates how poor posture, caused by sitting in chairs, leads to back pain and disc prolapse. He touches on the concept of biotensegrity w...

14/03/2017

Stephen Massey gave me the idea to modify the spine a little bit to make it look more like the curvature of the lumbar spine
You can easily place a knot at the top or bottom end of the blue band and shorten it so that the model is bend into more lordosis

14/03/2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q0n5Nq-ddg

The Rolfer and body worker Gerald Kaufmann has created a tensegrity model of the spine: This sculpture is a wonderful possibility to show the principle of te...