The thymus gland, “budding” underneath the sternum, also comes from the ancient word for “smoke!”
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Read MoreThe etymology of lungs is “light.” We don't necessarily think “light” when we think about the lungs. So this naturally is an exciting suggestion…
Read More'Roughly forty-three thousand years ago a young cave bear died in the rolling hills on the northwest border of modern-day Slovenia. A thousand miles away and a thousand years later, a mammoth died in the forests above the river Blau near the southern edge of modern-day Germany. Within a few years of the mammoth's demise, a griffon vulture also perished in the same vicinity. Five thousand years after that a swan and another mammoth died nearby.
…These different creatures, lost across time and space, did share one remarkable posthumous fate. After their flesh had been consumed by carnivores or bacteria, a bone from each of their skeletons was meticulously crafted by human hands into a flute.
The facial muscles are the most conspicuous place in the body where the muscles don’t attach to bones, they insert into each other’s connective tissues. That’s why the face has the most varied capacity for expression and movement.
Pectoralis major is, in many respects for therapists, our first and most important encounter with spirit and structure of the heart area.
Read MoreNorth American cicadas spend 17 years underground, as “nymphs”. Cicadas have evolved organs enabling them to dig up to the surface. Once above ground, they emerge from their exoskeletons with beautiful wings and soon begin singing their melodious, loud songs.
Read MoreFrom the nerve cell, to turbulent particles, to self-growth, to evolution itself, saltation represents a kind of saving grace enabling the transmission of change over chasms in time and space as we move through natural, historical and individual life.
Read MoreUnderneath our skin are second “skins”, deeper layers of body and mind. Underneath the surface of our consciousness there is the subconscious mind. Underneath the first layer of feelings and sensations, live deeper emotions and sensations.
Read MoreWhat really is a nerve? We know its basic anatomy and physiology, but how can we see it in a broader context, transmitting information and energy not only within but also between us?
Read MoreNew thoughts about boats and bones came to me recently, especially through the name and shape of the navicular bone in the foot…
Read MoreJoin, if you like, in a 6-week book club exploring “Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve.”
Read MoreThe spider “tunes” its web. Could we tune our clients through their connective tissues? And how does this relate both to music and to medicine?
Read MoreThe old testament is certainly wrong with its the contention that “In the beginning is the word.” Feet certainly are older than any words. So more accurately we could say, “In the beginning are the feet.”
Read MoreThe graphic forms of the circle and the letter “O” have remained fairly constant from Phoenician times until the present day. The name of the letter for “O” was ʿeyn, meaning "eye"; the letter (and possibly the shape of a circle and the numeral for Zero) - all may have originated as a drawings of a human eye….
Read MoreWhat muscle has three O’s in it? Runs from the scapula to the front of the neck? Has a fascial “sling” halfway along its length?
Read MoreThe scalenes, according to some anatomy texts, are possibly the second most important muscles in respiration….
Read MoreIda Rolf noted that when flexors flex, extensors have to extend - that lets us know the idea of a single “prime mover” is a myth….
Read MoreYears ago I had a series of conversations with Jon Zahourek, the creator of the Anatomy in Clay Learning System, here are some highlights!
Read MoreWalking makes your brain better along with your body, and your emotions…
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