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Spirals and Chirals
Spirals are an important theme in body structure; they often get ignored - yet they are so essential to movement and energy capacity. Today's episode pays due respect to my dear friend and colleague Karen Kirkness,...
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Ironing
I had a goofy moment admitting how much I don't iron, unless I really really have to! In Structural bodywork, the client often says they feel "ironed" - but in truth, the fascia in our bodies is actually crimped (like...
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B for Breath: Working with the Breath in real life
Following the recent episode about Wibbs Coulson's work with the breath, this is the "future episode" in which I promised to interview him, all about it. It's a fabulous insight into his life as a Nurse (in A&E...
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Why STRESS might be like sunlight
STRESS gets a lot of bad press. In our everyday language we use the word mostly with negative connotations. In this episode, we consider that there may be a way to turn it around. What does STRESS actually stand...
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Things Take Time
We all "know" things take time - but understanding how our tissues work, over time, can transform our performance and ability to remove and prevent pain, improve balance and give us a completely different "baseline"...
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Art from the Heart (Avid about Anatomy)
This episode is a celebration of art as a means to understand anatomy and why and how you can access some short, inexpensive and transformative courses that provide a bridge between Classical and Contemporary study of...
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Embryo Art
Studying the embryo to understand more about human motion was a fascinating part of the research I had to do to write YOGA: Fascia, Anatomy and Movement. One way I learned, was to draw it and in this episode I...
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Interview with Shane McDermott
In this episode, Shane McDermott shares some fabulous insights in how we can balance subtle and gross body awareness. He takes use to a place beyond pain and performance....a place each one of us knows intimately;...
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Listening Feet that Understand us
One listener asked "how do you start your classes?" and this episode answers that! I talk about the feet and how working with them, at the start of every class, can make such a difference to how we feel and how we...
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Sliding & Gliding - what's the difference and does it matter?
In this episode we consider some aspects of what sliding and gliding mean in the healthy body. Are they different and, if so, does it matter in terms of removing pain and improving performance? (We talk about Body...
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Recognising Resonance
Some fabulous questions came up from the Zoom Room Gloom episode about Cognitive Disonance. In this episode we look at Recognising Resonance as one way to allow for and possibly ease it.SIGN UP TO THE JOANNE AVISON...
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The Louise Narrative
When pain in one place comes from somewhere else, there is often a pattern - and a narrative that goes with it. In this episode we look at one case, in which the "pattern interruptâ resolved the story and how the...
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