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 2/1/26 Mary Bond 2/1/26

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.

Mary Bond 1/3/26 Mary Bond 1/3/26

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.

Mary Bond 12/5/25 Mary Bond 12/5/25

Tensegrity Tongue

What your tongue is doing can have surprising ramifications throughout your body, all the way down to your toes.

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 3/12/25 Mary Bond 3/12/25

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.

Mary Bond 5/29/24 Mary Bond 5/29/24

Interview on Brett Kane's Podcast

Join Brett and Mary for a rich conversation about embodiment, perception, fascia and biotensegrity!

Mary Bond 9/21/20 Mary Bond 9/21/20

What IS Posture?

in reality, posture is dynamic. It’s a process of moving the body through time and space. Ideal posture is only a moment in time. At any given moment we must be perceptually oriented to the ground and to the spatial field surrounding us. That perceptual orientation allows us to feel secure enough in our environment to express ourselves in response to what we are facing.

Mary Bond 10/5/19 Mary Bond 10/5/19

Yoga, Alignment and Movement

Diminished spatial perception creates compression in the body. That diminution of interior body space is a major cause of poor postural organization and limited range of motion. Changing how you stand or move is not the answer. Changing how you perceive and interact with the world is.

Mary Bond 5/31/19 Mary Bond 5/31/19

Tongue Support for Diaphragmatic Breathing

Within your oral cavity, you now have both descent (your mandible resting down) and ascent the subtle lift of your tongue. Notice what that does for the sensations at the juncture of your head and neck.

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.

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