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

From Posture to Performance with Pete Kadushin

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 7/28/23 Mary Bond 7/28/23

Twenty-first Century Vitalism Podcast

A podcast exploring what it takes to be fully alive during these strange and potent times.

Mary Bond 4/8/23 Mary Bond 4/8/23

Perfection and PD

I’ve never been shy about having PD—I figure everybody has to have something. But I hated that it distracted from what I thought was a valuable presentation.

Mary Bond 9/30/21 Mary Bond 9/30/21

Mandible, Maxillae, Molars and Movement

Jaw tension can be an unrecognized source of upper neck stiffness and pain. This post suggests a way to release your jaw by meditating on your molars.

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

A Movement Disorder

Exercise doesn’t increase dopamine levels in the brain but it does affect the efficiency with which available dopamine is recruited to serve brain circuitry.

Mary Bond 4/23/19 Mary Bond 4/23/19

Strength: A Wake-up Call

I have never been very robust in my fitness program. Having a flexible body, I’ve always been drawn to movement disciplines where that is at the forefront: yoga, improvisational dancing, Tai Chi. Strength training and competitive sports were not my thing.

Mary Bond 8/29/18 Mary Bond 8/29/18

Interview with @yourpregnantcore

A free-wheeling, leisurely conversation with my new Pilates friends.

Mary Bond 10/24/17 Mary Bond 10/24/17

Acting My Age

Sometimes I think about Diane Feinstein running for Congress for the umteenth time. Or Dame Judi Dench making film after film. We are not all given the same energies and capacities and I have to respect that—respect myself in that.

Mary Bond 10/21/16 Mary Bond 10/21/16

Spatial Perception in Daily Life

When we resist doing a task, part of the body is holding back. Instead of all your muscle units working together to finish the chore, a high percentage of them rebel and pull the opposite way. It’s like driving the car with the brakes on. The chore feels heavy, pressured and hurried.

Mary Bond 10/15/16 Mary Bond 10/15/16

Living in the Sagittal Plane

Not merely aware of the space around them, our ancestors were integrated into their surroundings. We can imagine that they viewed themselves—if they viewed themselves at all--as aspects of the tensional integrity of all life.

Mary Bond 7/3/16 Mary Bond 7/3/16

Posture & Perception: Naked Skin Moments

Contemporary living undervalues body awareness and overrides it most of the time. But could it be that listening to our interior body signals has an evolutionary advantage? If so, we undervalue this capacity to our detriment. We need to practice activating it.

Mary Bond 11/1/12 Mary Bond 11/1/12

Shoulder Support

Thanks to my colleague and proud father, Charles, for sharing his time in the accompanying movie. And for sharing his problem—I’m sure he’s not the only new dad who finds himself with unaccustomed aches and pains. His problem is fairly universal too, so his solutions can apply to your life, even if you aren’t rising to feed someone at 4 a.m. It’s a matter of having the right support: support from the pelvis for the spine, support from the spine for the shoulders, support from the shoulders for the hands and arms…

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