Basic Tenets of Movement Vulnerability

1. All body posture and movement creates mechanical stress.
2. Some mechanical movement stress is necessary, therapeutic.
3. Some mechanical movement stress is injurious.
4. Over time injurious movement can stress inflames tissue, degenerates disks and joints.
5. Repeated faulty posture and movement cause a vulnerability to their mechanical stress.
6. Repeated faulty posture and movement lowers the threshold to movement stress that soft and bony tissue can tolerate.
7. Faulty posture and movement is unskillful and unconscious.
8. The body can lose the “catch-up” game. It can process just so much inflammation.
8. The body can heal itself, if given the chance.
9. Skillful movement is healing.
10. Movement can be relieving or provocative.
11. Relieving movement reduces muscle tone, opens joint space, relieves disk pressure, supports strained ligaments, tendons, puts the body at rest.
13. Provocative movement, done poorly, will create more soft tissue inflammation and joint degeneration.
14. Provocative movement, done skillfully, will create stability, mobility, and manage movement vulnerabilities.
15. Hatha Yoga is skillful, conscious movement
16. Hatha Yoga can teach someone with movement vulnerabilities how to heal themselves