PRINCIPLES AND PHILOSOPHY 1
It's all about the bones
Inspired by the osteopathic vision of the human body, OSTÉO YOGA is a new and innovative principle based therapeutic practice drawing its strength from the fundamental laws of Nature. Its central teaching is that every living being under the sun knows intrinsically how to maintain, regenerate, nurture, heal and cure his/her own body. All one needs to do is practically re-connect to this Inner Healer existing within them.
The word YOGA can take on many different meanings. Union is the classical one. To SIT IN is another one. The purpose of OSTEO YOGA is to learn how to SIT IN the body – effortlessly and how to consciously use the Living presence to heal.
The word OSTEO comes from the Latin word OSTEON which literally means bone. Bones are densest form of physical matter in the body and represent the full manifestation of the earth element in the body. “It’s all about the bones”. When we deepen our practice, we realise that even though joint may seem limber and mobile, in reality, deeper still within the living tissue of the bone, tensions of the upmost resistance remain hidden and inaccessible.
OSTEO YOGA shows students how to come into direct contact with the bone structure of the body. Students learn how to “feel them; stretch them; release intra-osseous lesions; decompact them”. They also learn how to let their whole weight be supported by the bony structure of the body and effortlessly reactivate the energy centers and release their full healing potential. The work stimulates specific nerve endings and reactivates latent muscles; it releases the deepest compensations in the body, and allows to rediscover our genuine posture and bodyself.
OSTEO YOGA teaches advanced students how to develop surgical precision in their self body manipulation, similarly to an osteopath who manipulates patients’ body. Practitioners will develop the ability to access any part of their body and manipulate at will. This includes nervous tissue, fasciae, viscera and organs, muscles, tendons and ligaments, bones, bones and more bones. But most importantly, students will learn the difference between stretching and tension energy release. In other words, they will learn different strategies to release tensions within any tissue of the body, and deactivate the nervous system holding them up.
The information and energy hidden within the bones structures of the body are far beyond anything we have experience so far within the confine of body exploration.
