Body Intelligence Blog

A Couple of Polyvagal Slides

A Film About Slime Mould: The Creeping Garden

The Creeping Garden - official trailer from cinema iloobia on Vimeo. Slime mould has long fascinated the cranial community. The 1950's film by W Seifriz is shown on biodynamic cranial courses worldwide. The protoplasm of slime mould shows rhythmic flow at 50...

A Solution for the Brain

One of the difficulties being human is coping with the huge amount of neural activity from an enormous brain. The human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe. And the brain is destined it seems to keep on growing...

Acute Pain versus Chronic Pain

Chronic pain is nearly always a habit in the nervous system. Acute pain is an interpretation of nociceptive signals indicating tissue damage and inflammation. The tissues optimise the local repairs after a few months, so if the experience of pain persists then...

Art of Juggling, Synchronicity and Nervous System Rhythms

Check out the link below for a remarkable adventure in human movement that barely seems possible. The juggler is an American called Michael Moschen who appeared at the Ted convention in 2002 and was a sensation. He basically revealed how his nervous...

Arthritis of the spine, CT scan

Arthritis of the spine. Fronatal coloured 3D computed tomography (CT) scan of the spine of a 75 year old with osteoarthritis. The space between the second and third vertebrae (blocks) from bottom is greatly reduced at right. This puts pressure on the intervertebral...

'as if I was cupping a bowl of water'

I love green tea. We travelled in Japan a few years ago and discovered really good quality Sencha and Matcha. My morning cuppa has changed forever. Matcha particularly was a revelation, it is powered green tea and a taste sensation when prepared well....

Bodymaps are distorted in chronic pain

The video below is another wonderful development of how pain works. There is a revolution in how researchers are framing pain over the last few years. As teachers in the cranial community we are trying hard to catch up. We have changed our...

Book cover

We have finally decided on the book cover, see the image on the side bar. After lots of debate we are really happy with it. We feel it is a strong image and an attractive cover. The designers initially came up with...

Coalescing of the Midline

In the beginning were three fluid spaces. Out of these spaces coalesced a midline and the midline became the axis for the development of the body and life. We start off our existence as a new cell that reproduces itself to form...