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Understanding the Whole

This morning as I was doing my plasticity routine, my mind caught hold on my teacher's words concerning the connectivity of the entire body. We were particularly focusing on stretching our side and lateral fascial lines and as we engaged in postures that stretched the entire superficial lateral and side body lines he elaborated on how beneficial it is to stretch the entire body rather than isolating individual parts. As the science of stretching has evolved, we have come to recognize how everything in the body is connected and how understanding how one part of the body effects and interacts with another is key to developing and training the body effectively. In speaking of the dangers of not seeing the interconnectedness of the body and instead focusing on isolation he said:  Dissection is something you do after you die.  I think the reason I liked his words so much is that I have been meditating on the interconnectedness of every living organism on planet Earth. I'm equally...