Ep 54: Body as Continuum - John Sharkey

Thinking Pilates Podcast

Apr 20, 2018•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 54

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Episode description

We now have incredible electron microscopes. We have light technology. We have nano technology. We can illuminate cells and tissue in the way we couldn’t say 20 or even 10, 15 years ago. We have computer technology to integrate into all of those. And that’s fantastic!The downside to that is that we have been specializing and by specializing we’ve been separating and separating, and separating…We’ve so many specialist area now…and I’m not getting out of that for a moment, I saying that’s absolutely fantastic, but what needs to happen is that we all need to take a cleansing breath and stop for a moment. And in that stillness just remind ourselves that there is continuity in the human body. Embryology is a wonderful witness to that because when you think about the developing fetus, the developing embryo, at no stage did any mother ask for somebody to velcro on an upper limb, or have an operation to instal a liver.You grew the upper limb, you grew the liver, you grew the spleen, you self-developed, you self-emerged. Because of that everything is continuous and everything is connected. It could not be simpler. And yet people struggle with that idea. It can be useful at times to talk about parts, as long as we bring ourselves back and remind ourselves that there are no parts in the human body, there are no layers.That is a language of convenience. There are no layers in the human body. Everything from the skin, which is the surface right down to the sandy shores of your bones. Your body is continuous from superficial to deep. There are no truer words spoken.

About the Show

The are good people in this world. There are brilliant, kind, and generous people. There are people who make the world a different place, a better place, and who willingly invite others along.

This, my friends, is John Sharkey. A meticulous observer of the minute with a breathtaking view the whole. Clinical anatomist, Exercise Physiologist and founding member of the BioTensegrity Interest Group, John is part of a pioneering group of movement specialists and scientists changing the way we understand and talk about the body.

In this episode you will laugh (as always), be deeply moved by John's kindness, and maybe even go cross-eyed as we way down the rabbit hole of nerdy awesomeness.

Here are some of the highlights:

"The norm in human anatomy is individuality. The norm is not that we are all the same. The norm is that we are all different."
The body as a continuum; a continuity of tissue formed from three primary components: fats, carbohydrates, and proteins
Mini-me cells that eat brussel sprouts (or not)
The power of language
How are we misinforming our teaching with a misunderstanding of terms
The language of "dynamic tension" and the value of whole-body connected/kinetic chain movement
BioTensegrity and how we relate to movement and others
Soft-matter physics and the body in 4-dimensions
And Phineas Taylor Barnum + Bernarr Macfadden

Listen. Soak it in. Revel. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy...And SHARE.

About John Sharkey

Clinical Anatomist John Sharkey is a world renowned presenter and authority in the areas of anatomy, bodywork and movement therapies.

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