# Chase Riner's Library > Chase Riner's library on MythOS ## Links - [Library](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner) - [Full Content](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/llms-full.txt) - [Atom Feed](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/feed.xml) - [Chat](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/chat) - [Knowledge Graph](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/graph) - [Sitemap](https://mythos.one/creator-sitemap.chaseriner.xml) - [MCP Server](https://mythos.one/api/mcp?username=chaseriner) ## Topics - postural-realignment-lexicon (26) - somatic-practice-lexicon (24) - sports-therapy-lexicon (23) - breathwork-lexicon (22) - glossary (21) - thai-bodywork-lexicon (21) - anatomy-lexicon (20) - trigger-point-lexicon (20) - acupressure-lexicon (19) - craniosacral-lexicon (18) - nervous-system-lexicon (18) - deep-tissue-lexicon (17) - energy-work-lexicon (16) - somatic-modalities-lexicon (16) - somatic-techniques-lexicon (16) - somatic-frameworks-lexicon (12) - articular-mobility-lexicon (10) - emotional-release-lexicon (10) - resisted-release-lexicon (10) - movement-assessment-lexicon (1) ## Recent Memos - [Somatic Realignment Therapy](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/1ac6f1): Somatic Realignment Therapy is the integrative bodywork and somatic-healing practice of Chase Riner, based in Los Angeles. Drawing on nearly twenty years studying the body and ten years in... - [Chase Riner](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/creator): Chase Riner is a somatic practitioner and integrative bodyworker in Los Angeles, and the founder of Somatic Realignment Therapy. With nearly twenty years studying the body and ten years in... - [Recovery Window](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/4c0e5f): Recovery window is the hours after effort when sleep, fuel, and light movement matter most. In Sports Therapy the table is optional in that window; food and sleep are not. It is planning, not a... - [Self-Release Tool](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/df0088): Self-release tool is a lacrosse ball, peanut, or pressure cane used to hold pressure on a point at home. In Trigger Point Therapy the table hold is the lesson; the tool is how the person repeats it.... - [Mobility Work](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/23bd4d): Mobility work is active movement through range, distinct from passive stretching. The person moves the joint; they are not pulled into it. In Sports Therapy that is how range is rehearsed for the... - [Leg Length Discrepancy](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/c9e27f): Leg length discrepancy is one leg measuring or functioning shorter than the other. In Postural / Structural Realignment an apparent short side is treated as a pattern first: a rotated pelvis, a hip... - [Neutral](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/415e06): Neutral is a segment resting in the middle of its range without effort. A pelvis, a ribcage, a head, a shoulder blade: each has a place it can sit without extra arch, tuck, lift, or brace. Neutral... - [Alignment](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/6772a1): Alignment is how the body's segments stack over one another in relation to gravity, described as a pattern rather than a verdict. In Postural / Structural Realignment the practitioner looks at head... - [Holding Pattern](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/35172a): Holding pattern is a habitual tension the body keeps even at rest, often outside awareness. A shoulder that never drops, a jaw that never unclenches, a low back that is always "on": the person is... - [Bracing](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/c9df21): Bracing is holding muscles tight to feel stable, a habit the work aims to make unnecessary. A locked belly, a clenched jaw, a shoulder that will not drop: the person is using effort as a substitute... - [Base of Support](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/fd22ef): Base of support is the area under and between the feet that the body balances over. Narrow it — feet together, or standing on one foot — and the rest of the body has to work harder to stay up. Widen... - [Center of Gravity](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/886345): Center of gravity is the point around which body weight balances, usually just in front of the sacrum in standing. When the hips push forward, the chest leans back, or the head lives ahead of the... - [Differentiation](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/33d0a3): Differentiation is learning to move one segment, such as the pelvis, without the neighbors joining in. A pelvis that cannot tip without the ribs thrusting, a head that cannot turn without the... - [Functional vs. Structural](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/2bd863): Functional vs. structural is whether a difference, such as leg length, comes from soft tissue and habit, which can change, or from bone, which cannot. In Postural / Structural Realignment the... - [Lower Crossed Pattern](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/8e3023): Lower crossed pattern is tight hip flexors and low back paired with underactive glutes and abdominals, a common desk-sitting shape. The front of the hip and the lumbar erectors stay on; the glutes... - [Pelvic Neutral](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/93c43e): Pelvic neutral is the pelvis balanced between anterior and posterior tilt. Not tucked, not dumped: a middle the person can rest in without extra lumbar arch or a flattened low back. In Postural /... - [Line of Pull](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/51e4ab): Line of pull is the direction a shortened tissue drags a segment, which the practitioner traces before releasing it. A forward head may be the end of a line that starts in the chest or the hip; a... - [Realignment](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/b1859f): Realignment, in this practice, is improved awareness, more movement options, regulation, and ease — not a bone moved into a correct place. Postural / Structural Realignment keeps the word because it... - [Posterior Chain](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/5d9382): Posterior chain is the muscles and fascia along the back of the body, often lengthened and underworked in desk patterns. Glutes, hamstrings, the back of the calf, and the long line up the spine form... - [Upper Crossed Pattern](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/1e0dfa): Upper crossed pattern is a tight chest and back of the neck paired with underactive deep neck flexors and mid-back, the classic screen-facing shape. The pecs and the upper neck stay on; the front of... - [Sway Back](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/821216): Sway back is the hips pushed forward of the ankles with the upper body leaning back to balance. The person hangs in the front of the hips; the chest and head go backward so the mass stays over the... - [Anterior Chain](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/050a8f): Anterior chain is the muscles and fascia along the front of the body, which tend to shorten with long sitting. Hip flexors, the front of the ribs, the chest, and the tissue that links them form one... - [Lengthening](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/335323): Lengthening is restoring resting length to shortened tissue so a segment can settle back toward neutral. A tight hip flexor, a short chest, a neck that will not let the head stack: the tissue is... - [Rotation](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/985f0a): Rotation is a segment turned about its vertical axis, as when one hip sits forward of the other. A pelvis, a ribcage, a head: each can live turned. In Postural / Structural Realignment that turn is a... - [Stacking](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/a89eed): Stacking is arranging head over ribs over pelvis over feet so bones rather than muscles carry the load. It is the practical picture of alignment in Postural / Structural Realignment: not a military... - [Travell and Simons](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/45f47e): Travell and Simons are the physicians — Janet Travell and David Simons — whose referral maps underlie modern trigger point work. Their texts described taut bands, nodules that refer, and the... - [Taut Band](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/6d46d3): Taut band is the rope-like strand of tight fibers in which a trigger point sits. Under the fingers it feels like a cord inside the muscle, distinct from the surrounding belly. Trigger Point Therapy... - [Referral Pattern](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/be409c): Referral pattern is the characteristic map of where a point sends sensation, often far from the point itself. A knot in the hip may light up the calf; a knot in the neck may light up the temple. In... - [Wai Khru](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/5ba9e5): Wai khru is the brief opening acknowledgment of teachers that some practitioners begin with. A short bow or pause before the first contact. In Thai Bodywork it is optional, traditional, and not a... - [Cun](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/e98f44): Cun is the traditional body-relative unit used to locate points, about the width of the thumb at the knuckle. In Acupressure PC6 is "three cun above the inner wrist crease" — three of that person's... - [Self-Acupressure](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/30f1cf): Self-acupressure is points the client presses at home, given as homework between sessions. In Acupressure the table hold is the lesson; the same point, their own thumb, thirty seconds to two minutes,... - [Tonify and Sedate](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/851db5): Tonify and sedate is the traditional distinction between pressure meant to strengthen a point and pressure meant to calm it. In Acupressure that distinction is a quality of contact on the traditional... - [Shiatsu](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/48b1aa): Shiatsu is the Japanese finger-pressure tradition closely related to acupressure. Both use thumbs on mapped points and meridians. In this library the session work is Acupressure. Shiatsu names a... - [Loose Clothing](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/4fc6bf): Loose clothing is worn throughout, since the work uses no oil and moves the body through space. In Thai Bodywork the receiver stays dressed in something that can stretch, fold, and be palmed through.... - [Nuad Thai](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/3eb874): Nuad Thai is the Thai name for the tradition, inscribed by UNESCO in 2019. In this library the work is called Thai Bodywork (also Thai massage) so the session note stays in Chase's register. Nuad... - [Metta](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/c1f9f1): Metta is loving-kindness, the intention the practitioner traditionally holds during the work. In Thai Bodywork the word names a quality of contact — unhurried, not extracting, not performing — not a... - [Post-Isometric Relaxation](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/707e48): Post-isometric relaxation is the brief window after a contraction when a muscle lets go more fully than before. In Resisted Soft-Tissue Release it is a working picture of why a short effort is... - [HPA Axis](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/18a8f9): HPA axis is the hormonal stress-response pathway linking the brain and adrenal glands. In this library it is a working picture of how stress can linger, not a lab test and not a protocol that resets... - [Homeostasis](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/57f3bd): Homeostasis is the body's tendency to return to a balanced internal state. In this library it is a working picture of settling back, not a medical claim that the table restores homeostasis as a lab... - [Kyphosis](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/73a40b): Kyphosis is the spine's natural backward curve through the upper back; "hyper" means more curve than usual, "flat" means less. Every thoracic spine has some kyphosis. The word in a session note is... - [Polyvagal Theory](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/8c217e): Polyvagal theory is a model describing how the vagus nerve may shape states of safety, mobilization, and shutdown. In this library it is a model, not settled physiology, not a diagnosis, and not a... - [Dural Tube](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/f92b36): Dural tube is the membrane sleeve running from skull to sacrum that, in this model, links the two ends of the system. In Craniosacral Therapy a hold at the head is understood as related to a hold at... - [Lordosis](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/d9d3bc): Lordosis is the spine's natural forward curve through the neck and low back; "hyper" means more curve than usual, "flat" means less. Those curves are normal anatomy. Hyperlordosis is the postural... - [Stillness](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/34aab1): Stillness is the quality of the session compared with compressive massage. In Craniosacral Therapy the room, the hands, and the pace stay quiet. That is the method, not a moral claim, and not a... - [Membranes](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/6f00bc): Membranes are the layers wrapping the brain and spinal cord that this model treats as able to carry restriction. In Craniosacral Therapy the hands listen along that system from cranium to sacrum. The... - [Trigger Point](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/5f7788): Trigger Point is a hyperirritable spot in a taut muscle band that can refer sensation to another region. Pressed, it often reproduces a familiar ache, warmth, or tingling away from the fingers —... - [Upledger](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/ad8c52): Upledger is John E. Upledger, the osteopathic physician who developed the contemporary form of craniosacral therapy. His teaching named the five-gram touch, still point, and somatoemotional release... - [Soma](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/003675): Soma is the body as experienced from the inside. Not the body on a chart, not the body as an object on the table — the living sense of being in it. In Somatic Practice that inside view is the subject... - [Presence](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/b2442e): Presence is the practitioner's calm attention treated as part of the work. The room, the pace, and whether the practitioner is actually here. In Somatic Practice that attention is a condition of the... - [Synovial Fluid](https://mythos.one/me/chaseriner/64e190): Synovial fluid is the joint's lubricant; gentle movement is a working picture of helping it circulate. In Articular Mobility this is anatomy language, not a claim the practitioner produces, drains,...