Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy, and Movement: Bridging the Gap Between East and West

By Joanne Avison, this book is an appeal to Yoga Teachers to appreciate the depth and breadth of Yoga as a science, a movement practice, and a philosophy that fundamentally espouses “wholeness” as the basis of living anatomy and form. Yoga calls for unifying who and how we are; and as teachers – how we can help our clients (who are all different) move better.

Classical Anatomy vs. 21st Century Anatomy

Classical Anatomy (in the West) divides the body down into its component parts and traditionally (unchanged for 400 years) reduces its functionality to those parts; usually described in a 2D iconic forms and founded in lever-based mechanics. In the East, such reductionism was never espoused and Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy and Movement covers two huge bases to bridge the difference and upgrade understanding of Yoga, to 21st Century anatomy:

Fascia Science and Yogic Philosophy

The first is to recognise that the leading edge of Fascia Science changes all those reductionist views (anatomically and biomechanically). It is carefully explained in the first part of the book and shows how the New Science of Body Architecture actually makes perfect sense of yogic philosophy of union and wholeness.

Practical Applications of Fascial Architecture

The second is to take this paradigm shift and apply it in practice, to the subtle understanding of the fascial architecture and how that helps us move better. Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy and Movement attempts to ask questions, find suitable research and make all this practical and applicable to teachers and practitioners of all types. (Indeed, it teaches “posture profiling” and creating Class Mandala’s, to support this).

It is a contemporary yoga teacher’s bible, providing insights into the fusion of Eastern and Western anatomical philosophies, and offering practical tools for enhancing movement and understanding of the human body.