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The Tensegrity Principle as Energy Management
Minimal energy expenditure is one of the basic principles of living things. Energy inefficient organisms don’t evolve. When a tensegrity structure takes on a load, it expands and becomes not only more spacious but also stronger.
Biotensegrity and Me
What if embodiment is a flux of events on a scale that ranges from the atoms within your molecules to the cars speeding by on the highway?…
Tension: What's in a Name?
Study of biotensegrity points toward radical revision in how we understand and use our bodies as well as revision of many other aspects of life.
Happy Tongue: Happy Body
Sensing the soft totality of my tongue helps me remember that the rest of my body, my being, can also soften and fill, can hum and flow. Can dance.
Tensegrity Tongue
What your tongue is doing can have surprising ramifications throughout your body, all the way down to your toes.
Biotensegrity: From Dinosaur's Tails to Tea Parties
Everywhere, at every scale, he found the same principle: tension and compression in balance.
Soft Matter, Ant Trails, Breakdancing and Tensegrity
The impression that the shapes were flowing through her fascia wasn’t an illusion: self-organization is another of soft matter’s mysterious properties.
From Posture to Performance with Pete Kadushin
From Posture to Performance with Pete Kadushin
Gravity, Verticality and Mary Poppins
Can structures be supported by means other than vertical accord with gravity?
Tensegrity in Daily Life
Finding ways to comfortably inhabit the full volume of our bodies might just be the key, not only to stamina but to optimal physical function in general.
Join the Pandiculation Revolution
Pandiculation is a reflexive impulse that primes the body's fascia for movement after periods of inactivity.
Get to know your Interstitium (revisit this 2018 post!)
Whatever we call it, fascia or interstitium, researchers now believe that this ubiquitous material within our bodies, with at least 250 million sensory receptors, is our largest sensory organ.
Caring for Your Fascia
Can it be that our fascia contains untapped reserves of self-expression, healing and wisdom?
Movable Pelvis
Legs and thighs rise from the ground to suspend the ilia on two spherical studs. The highly mobile hip joints combined with plasticity between sacrum and ilia, afford the upper body a dynamic relationship with the ground.