18 February

If you watch a person walk from ground level, you almost certainly won’t notice it happens by our bodies being a twisted, spiral pair of muscular sheets, running the full length of our bodies. When you look at somebody walking from above though (or running), you can clearly see how each step is the body twisting from one side to the other. And because nearly all of us use one side (left or right) more than the other, the twisting ends up more heavily focused on that side of our bodies. That creates tension in our bodies, they tighten up. Because the twist is uneven, from one side to other other. Even in sitting or standing it’s this twisted pair of sheets that supports us. So all the ‘bad backs’ and other tensions and stiff bodies we try to fix with stretching, are really just unbalanced twisting. We need to de-twist, de-rotate, to fix them. The *whole* body, not parts here and there. Laying in a semi-supine position allows the body to de-rotate, to unwind. 15-20 minutes of that per day or even more, and you’ll notice profound changes.