Thomas Myers - Tensegrity Applied to Human Biomechanics

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“How do you handle tension & compression in the body?” Fascinating question for me to ponder with you as a somatic psychotherapist!

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Where did you get that tensegrity model? I would love to show clients

Thank you for this fancinating vidoe! I had a Spinal osteotomy coming up for 3 years ago. It is so helpful to think of the surrounding tissues supporting my spine that can still build flexibility! The breathing thing has been true for me, I now do Tai Chi and I can feel the release and lengthening of my spine (it feels like I'm getting hot and sweating brought on by simply breathing through Qi Gong). I have some prolapsed discs in my neck currently because of the lack of flexibility in my thoracic and lumbar spine, but I'll continue to work on it.

Very very helpful. Thank you so much

Dios nos envia sabiduría maestra Meyers!

thanks for the video

Absolutely great stuff! Sadly so few people even today understand even the concept of a tensegrity structure and the relationship and importance of myofascia tissue.

Hi Tom, fascinating discourse! The expansion and contraction demo was surprising, counterintuitive. I have trouble with the fact that the model is dissimilar to the human body in a number of ways: no straight line fibre relationships, hundreds of different tissue types and consistencies, the constant, voluntary loss of tensegrity as a primary strategy for moving. What do you think?

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Extremely ideological. This is a BAD model to teach people. Borders on an abuse of intellect or an admission of ignorance. To teach interested therapist that tension and compression are all there is in new biomechanics is idiocy. This is precisely why people should never surrender their ability to critically think to an self-promoted icon in the bodywork industry. No one pushes back and says, "There's more to it than that." Bucky fuller may have stated this concept in building but we must factor in building materials. It's why the body can be compared to a car or a computer to illustrate points, but we all know we are not a car and we are not a computer. It made me sad to hear Tom omit shear and torsion and bending in biomechanics. His assertions that no movement is isolated is not hard to accept, it's been there all along, but to begin this video by stating the new biomechanics is nothing but tension and compression eliminates him as anyone to be taken seriously from a scientific point of view. As far as promoting his classes to draw in more novices, his convictions will win followers like any other church or cult, but in the end, they will come to their own clinical conclusion that there is more to movement than rubber bands and dowels.

Geweldig om zo inzicht te krijgen in het functioneren van alle structuren in ons lichaam

Nice demonstration. Enjoying the Jeff Goldblum vocal performance tonality as well... 😊

.. as a German Biologist - YOU deserve Praise and Applause.
This is essential for everybody -
The more we practice this, the better we are ready
to face any challenge.
Bravo!
ThankYou!

Where can I get these tensegrity models?

The saddest thing is that when you try to teach people in a gym environment how to move better most of the time they just look at you as if u mad.

''The body is a strain distribution machine!''

Tom reminds me of Bob Ross, his voice is so soothing.

"We say the rhomboids are a supinator" - No... Gary Gray & the Gray Institute deserve credit for originally coining this kind of nomenclature!

very cool teacher

Tensegrity is a major part of internal arts and tai chi postures and bio mechanical alignments. When learning static postures you re basically trying to balance your body and relax and release all the major muscles to the point where the bones and ligaments support your body. It feels like everything is hanging off this but the body is relaxed but still springy. The next stage is working with the interstitial fluids in between the joints cartilage and muscles and compressing and expanding these like a hydraulic system. My teacher calls it “working with the juice to engage the goosh”. Also referred to in chinese tui na massage as pulsing/ open and closing/ expanding and contracting. When you can feel this stage of movement it feels like you are moving through honey thick and viscous. In the classics it is referred to air turns into water.

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Gracias Excelente!

Would love to have these models for teaching. Are they available to buy anywhere?

Absolutely fascinating! Great to listen too and wonderfully described and explained!

Amazing. I saw this 7y ago and wasn't ready. I've been doing FP w my trainer now for like 6 months and I'm rediscovering all this knowledge w newfound interest and understanding. Being able to translate my trainer's words into a body-experience is important for me, so I needed to understand what I'm doing and why.

OK, but credit where credit is due please. The tensegrity structure that Thomas shows is one of many clones of the work of the American sculptor Kenneth Snelson, who pursued tensegrity structures as sculptures sign 1948. Important works include Needle Tower (1968) which still stands outside the Hirshorn Museum in Washington DC.

That was great.

Beautifully presented snd very compelling concepts. Look forward to learning and applying more practical work in this area.

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Omg, thank you so much for this video. Im a massage therapist and i had been finding these tension lines in the body then when you follow them, the fascia releases and the muscle collapses and loses shape. And i have been trying to get an explanation of I was doing and feeling for a year. I start my massages from the bottom up because i find that it the lower back doesnt release if you start from the top going down. I also find that the lower back doesnt release without releaseing the hip, etc.... this is so great. I have been doing massages by following tension lines in the body that i accidently found one day. Thank you thank you so much for your video. It is so great to finally understand what and how releasing the lines of tension were giving my clients back their full range of motion. When i tried to explain what i was feeling or tried to get answers about it, no one knew what i was talking about. I could cry right now. Thank you so much.

Recovering from scoliosis and honestly periods of trauma in my life and this idea is profoundly helpful to me. Instead of big muscle groups, I benefit most with yoga or centered balance type of exercise and stretching

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That is extraordinarily interesting. I'm a trainer. I want to learn mire

this is so important, every athletics teacher should learn this at a fundamental level

Thank you for making it so easy to understand!

Thanks a lot for brilliant narration of structural functional patterns forming dynamic bio-mechanics of fascia body networks without beginning and ends connected breakdown bridge cycle looped cellular anatomy.

Bone has a crystal lattice structure as well

I fear that tensegrity is a worst model than the general compression one: nothing wrong with that until you said that the other view is wrong: Trying to explain your fascination for tensegrity, you degraded the other and therefore overselled the tensegrity model. Are not compression forces in the joints-bones not stronger than the tension ones? Are bones not directly interacting in the joints? I don't think that the human body is a proper example of tensegrity, as it is not tying a mast in a ship.

I taught a martial art for decades. I was strongly influenced by Tom Myer's idea of Anatomy Trains. It lead to practical training methods.

This is a perfect explanation of what I've been feeling in my body.
Been doing PRI physical therapy for a year and half now.

Was pretty much shut down with 13 pretty bad bulging discs, herniated and ruptured disc, 6 numb finger's. Fibromyalgia for 30 odd years. This perfectly describes the integrity i feel returning, geometric straps, that definitely aren't in any anatomy books.

Thank you
How do you call and how to find those tensegrity objects ?

This the video I need!!

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