I’m wearing a fascial unitard. There was a little back and forth about this and I’m not sure if he said he wore pantyhose in class or if I just imagined it. Tom is a funny and creative guy and so I wouldn’t put it past him if the cause was to create understanding with his students. After all, the seeds of this therapy started with an anatomy game when he was teaching at the Rolf Institute.

Anatomy Trains, KMI & Spatial Medicine

Once you factor in the influences of Buckminster Fuller, Ida Rolf and Moshe Feldenkrais, you pretty much have to add it up to “Tom”. I almost don’t know where to go in this blog because we touched on everything from pantyhose to snot, education to movement, treatment to research and your cells to your environment.

He has taken a global systems thought process and applied it to movement and fascial bodywork. He’s learned from pioneers and has become one himself applying a tensegrity model to the body structure through acknowledgement of all systems, but particularly:

• The nervous system,
• The cirulatory system
• The fascial system

These he singles these three out because they are found everywhere in the body. His focus is particularly the fascia and connective tissues and he shared pearls about our body transformations and the reasons they happen.

Beyond Anatomy Trains & Kinesis Myofascial Integration (KMI), Tom touched on Spatial Medicine concepts which made me wish we had more time! Unfortunately I had to reign him in due to time constraints.

He had some amazing advice:

• For the layperson: Explore your movement in any way you can (and your kids)
• For the practitioner: Learn about the fascia (it’s on the cutting edge of research)

Check out his website: www.anatomytrains.com

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