Spiral Bound

Integrated Anatomy for Yoga

Karen Kirkness
Handspring Publishing
280 pages
ISBN: 9781912085033
September 2021

Spiral Bound explores the potential for yoga as a healing modality by examining the body’s anatomical structure as it has evolved embryonically. With a light touch approach, Karen Kirkness weaves together threads of development to see how our morphological constraints arise in the earliest moments of life, and how this rotation lays the spiral groundwork for rotational kinematics that encompass all tissue. She links theory to practice in a conversational style, richly illustrated with full color photographs and drawings that bring biomotion to life for yoga teachers and therapists and yoga practitioners.