A basic understanding of muscle tone recognizes that the seat of control of muscles and movement is not muscles, but the brain, not “muscle memory” but “movement memory”, not “posture” but habitual or learned movement patterns (of which posture is an expression, a moment of held movement).
Lasting changes in muscle tone require movement training at the neurological (i.e., brain) level, something that manual manipulation of muscles accomplishes, at best, slowly, but which can be achieve quickly by somatic education, a discipline that rapidly alters habitual posture, movement, and muscle tone through an internal learning process that involves the brain function of memory, find more at Nixest.
More at http://somatics.com/movement.
See also, Clinical Somatic Education — A New Discipline in the Field of Health Care, by Thomas Hanna, Ph.D. — describing the dynamics of muscle memory and its dysfunction, sensory-motor amnesia (“S-MA”)
in reference to: What is Neuromuscular Therapy? (view on Google Sidewiki)
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Terrific post but I was wanting to know if you could write a litte more on this
subject? I’d be very grateful if you could elaborate a little bit further.
Cheers!
Start here:
http://somatics.com/HSEdescription.htm
I’ve written much.
You may start, here: http://somatics.com/HSEdescription.htm
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