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Check out the post from Erik Dalton - an amazing teacher - about disc degeneration:

https://erikdalton.com/blog/why-we-get-short/

The Secret Life of Spinal Discs Does Muscle Decompression Therapy Help? The intervertebral discs are responsible for 25 percent of our spine’s overall length. Given that the average adu

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Tensegrity Model of the Spine - Limited XMas-Edition 2017 This model and sculpture is a wonderful possibility to show the principle of tensegrity to your clients. You can easily explore how the vertebras interact with each other in the tensegral framework of our spine - which kind of manipulation is appropriate to work with the patterns of the spine. Limit...

Check out the new video about how to use the Tensegrity-Model of the spine to explain and experience the principle of tensegrity in our body:
When we work with clients to improve their movement and to establish a more efficient posture we should at first open their mindset to a new awareness of the body.
"If you can dream it - you can do it!" ... so if you are able to imagine that you have a bouncing and floating body, it's much easier to get the access to this super power :-)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF0yrJ7k5Zo

Tensegrity Model of the Spine - How to use or explain it This tensegrity model of the spine is a wonderful demo that the bones of the spine are not designed to touch each other. To open the mindset of your clients ...

... another close up how the vertebras are hanging down from the one below - like hanging out in a hammok ... (red rope)

As you can see the vertebras don't touch each other in this tensegrity model of the spine - they float on top of each other and with the facet joints they only slide against each other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnAMM80ww0g

How Poor Posture Causes Back Pain Stephen Massey demonstrates how poor posture, caused by sitting in chairs, leads to back pain and disc prolapse. He touches on the concept of biotensegrity w...

Stephen Massey gave me the idea to modify the spine a little bit to make it look more like the curvature of the lumbar spine
You can easily place a knot at the top or bottom end of the blue band and shorten it so that the model is bend into more lordosis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q0n5Nq-ddg

Tensegrity Model of the Spine - Demo 1 The Rolfer and body worker Gerald Kaufmann has created a tensegrity model of the spine: This sculpture is a wonderful possibility to show the principle of te...