Mary Bond 3/9/26 Mary Bond 3/9/26

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?…

Mary Bond 10/1/25 Mary Bond 10/1/25

Biotensegrity: From Dinosaur's Tails to Tea Parties

Everywhere, at every scale, he found the same principle: tension and compression in balance.

Mary Bond 8/14/25 Mary Bond 8/14/25

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.

Mary Bond 5/20/25 Mary Bond 5/20/25

From Posture to Performance with Pete Kadushin

Mary Bond 4/30/25 Mary Bond 4/30/25

Gravity, Verticality and Mary Poppins

Can structures be supported by means other than vertical accord with gravity?

Mary Bond 2/4/25 Mary Bond 2/4/25

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.

Mary Bond 1/4/25 Mary Bond 1/4/25

Caring for Your Fascia

Can it be that our fascia contains untapped reserves of self-expression, healing and wisdom?

Mary Bond 6/27/24 Mary Bond 6/27/24

Sentient and Useful Toes

The simple act of sensing your toes can appreciably affect the way you use your feet and your whole body.

Mary Bond 8/12/19 Mary Bond 8/12/19

A MEDITATION FOR YOUR EYES

Avoid imagining a baby’s face, a lovely sunset, or a pleasant event. Instead, let your eyes gaze at a doorknob or a light switch—ordinary things. The purpose is not to induce a mental or emotional state, but simply to notice the physical sensations in your body that accompany smiling with your eyes.

Mary Bond 3/1/19 Mary Bond 3/1/19

Use Your Toes to Protect Your Knees

When there’s a problem in the knee, there are probably imbalances in the feet. My friend had no complaints about her feet, but when I watched her move I could see that, especially on the side of her knee surgery, she wasn’t using the full articulation of her foot.

Mary Bond 12/2/18 Mary Bond 12/2/18

Posture in Motion

I practice yoga to keep my fascia silky enough and my joints adaptable enough that my coordination can stay smooth even as the aging process diminishes my stamina. Yet, here I was, post yoga class, walking in this awkward way. I teach movement, for heaven’s sake. How had I slid into this familial pattern?

Mary Bond 8/6/18 Mary Bond 8/6/18

Perceptual Tensegrity

Tensegral body attitude, by expanding the space within the torso, grants more living room to your organs, beneficially affecting all visceral functions, including circulation, respiration, and digestion. And, because expansive visceral space contributes to high vagal tone, it can positively affect both health and social connectedness.

Mary Bond 7/7/18 Mary Bond 7/7/18

Your Tensegrity Body

Your body is a floating compression structure—bones float within a tensile matrix of soft tissue. This is a very different model from the old idea that your body should be lined up like a stack of blocks.

Mary Bond 10/23/17 Mary Bond 10/23/17

Talk at Google: How to Sit, Stand and Move in the Modern World

Jumping off from the subtitle of The New Rules of Posture, I spoke about fascia, pandiculation, tensegrity, ergonomic chairs, spatial orientation, and manspreading. If you enjoy it, please share!

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