All memos tagged #postural-realignment-lexicon

Organization is how a person arranges the whole body around a task or a pull, which is what realignment works on. Not a single joint, not a single sore spot: the pattern of head, ribs, pelvis, and...

Protraction and retraction are the shoulder blades sliding forward around the ribs or back toward the spine. Protraction wraps the blade toward the armpit; retraction draws it toward the spine. In...

Scapular position is where the shoulder blades rest: winged, elevated, protracted, or settled. In Postural / Structural Realignment the blades are part of how the person stacks the ribs and the head....

Rib position is whether the ribcage rests over the pelvis or lifts and flares forward. A stacked ribcage sits over the pelvis without a thrust; a flared one lifts the lower ribs and often takes the...

Tone is the low-level resting tension in a muscle, which the work aims to make even rather than high or absent. Some tissue is always on; some will not come on when it is asked. In Postural /...

The Postural / Structural Realignment Glossary collects the posture, tension-pattern, and gravity terms used when Postural / Structural Realignment work appears in a Somatic Realignment Therapy...