Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy and Movement 2nd Edition

Joanne Avison
Handspring Publishing
436 pages
ISBN: 978-1913426040
May 2021

Classical anatomy (in the West) divides the body into into its component parts and traditionally reduces its functionality to those parts, usually described in two-dimensional iconic forms, founded in lever-based mechanics. In the East, such reductionism in anatomy was never espoused. Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy and Movement covers two huge bases to bridge the difference between these two approaches and to upgrade our understanding of yoga to 21st Century anatomy. The first part of this extraordinary work recognizes that the leading edge of fascia science changes all those reductionist views (anatomically and biomechanically). The second part of the work takes this paradigm shift and applies it in practice to the subtle understanding of the fascial architecture and how that architecture helps us move better.