Backbone and Wingspan: Spines in Flight

Backbone and Wingspan® focuses on the bones of the back, not all of which are the obvious vertebrae that comprise the spine - albeit the backbone.

It is my mission within each and every session to create a true learning experience within the exercises we may perform for strengthening or the stretches we may perform for releasing tightness and tension.

I'm really here to relay experiential information that can change the way you perceive your body as opposed to giving you cues for how-to-do or adding a tip or two while you move.

Backbone literally implies possessing a sense of the spine but figuratively, in a way that translates to your physicality,

Backbone connotes a mutual feeling of both ease and empowerment.

Backbone is a great facility and freedom in the expression of oneself.

There are several other bones along the backside of the body

that serve to support the spinal column and

thus give full access to the entire line of spine and

grant a true sense of both ease and empowerment -

these other bones along the backside are

the scapula,

the sit bones,

and the sacrum.

The scapula are the wing bones, and dropping into the musculature underneath the scapula

(the triceps, the lats, the lower traps)

ultimately gives one

the sense of being winged.

In The Power of Myth

Joseph Campbell states,

"The serpent bound to the earth, the eagle in spiritual flight - isn't that conflict something we all experience? And then, when they amalgamate, we get a wonderful dragon, a serpent with wings. All over the earth, people recognize these images."

I had a revelatory moment one day in my teaching while relaying to a student that the quality of the spine moving through space is an undulation.

I remembered someone telling me that the spine is a serpentine line.

You'll discover and experience all the ranges of motion of the spine within your study

with the Backbone and Wingspan Integrated Back Strength way of understanding your body:

Rounding the Spine Arching the Spine Side Bending the Spine

and Rotation of the Ribcage while Unwinding or Spiraling the Spine

I put together that serpentine comes from serpent.

I realized that when I chose Backbone and Wingspan, without knowing it, I had given my business - and my beliefs about the body - a mythological name.

Backbone and Wingspan
is a spine that has the capacity to feel flight.

- Herald

Backbone and Wingspan®

Founder and Owner

is the author of this

Body Mind & Spine Align Blog

as well as

an alternate website & blog about

Foot Function for Spinal Support:

FeetForFitness.com

Heel & Sole for Foot Pain

Herald can be reached at 212-647-8878

Email: herald@backboneandwingspan.com

or: info@backboneandwingspan.com