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Sylviane James

Jul 17, 20235 min read

Pain

The Chronic Stress Response

Acute versus chronic Stress Response An acute stress response begins in the brain (see illustration). When someone confronts an oncoming...

Sylviane James

May 30, 20232 min read

Body

The Wisdom of the Body

I hope it will change the way you look at, perceive, and understand the body. SINCE 1863, THE EVER-INCREASING DOMINION OF THE CONCEPT OF...

Intuition and the Future of healing: Human Health is an Inner Work

Sylviane James

May 30, 20232 min read

Pain

Intuition and the Future of healing: Human Health is an Inner Work

by Sylviane James Chronic Pain has been put into the “too hard basket,” and if we talk about the 1.7 billion people affected throughout...

Sylviane James

May 30, 20233 min read

Posture

The Postural Muscles

Our emotional muscles The human stance is very efficient amidst the animal kingdom. Our postural muscles work together effortlessly to...

Sylviane James

May 30, 20235 min read

Pain

What of human suffering?

Can we do something about it and if we can, then what and how? When we fall to our knees, when we have gone through all the scenarios and...

YOGA - The Human Posture and Chronic Pain

Sylviane James

May 30, 20238 min read

Yoga

YOGA - The Human Posture and Chronic Pain

Although Yoga is considered a safe form of exercise, recommended by GP’s Physiotherapists, chiropractors and alike, existing pain and...

Sylviane James

May 30, 20234 min read

Pain

Chronic Pain and Recurring Injuries

The body is now in control, not the mind! “Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible” –Eckart...

The use of Yoga for Chronic Health Conditions: Results from the Australian 45 and Up Study

Sylviane James

May 30, 20232 min read

Yoga

The use of Yoga for Chronic Health Conditions: Results from the Australian 45 and Up Study

by Sridhar Maddela*, Jane Frawley, Jon Adams, David Sibbritt Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine...

The Role of Postural Reflexes in Health & Well-Being

Sylviane James

May 30, 20231 min read

Posture

The Role of Postural Reflexes in Health & Well-Being

by Gerald Foley Alexander Technique scientific briefing INTRODUCTION If all the activity of the human body’s six hundred skeletal muscles...

Body Posture as a Reflection of Psychogenetic Physical Mechanisms & Their Meaning in the Curing Proc

Sylviane James

May 30, 20231 min read

Posture

Body Posture as a Reflection of Psychogenetic Physical Mechanisms & Their Meaning in the Curing Proc

by Marta Polowczyk-Michalska, Ewa Mojs Clinical Psychology Institute Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION...

Development of Postural Muscles and Their Innervation

Sylviane James

May 30, 20231 min read

Posture

Development of Postural Muscles and Their Innervation

by J. IJkema-Paassen and A. Gramsbergen Medical Physiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands ABSTRACT Control of...

Human Posture Recognition for Behaviour Understanding

Sylviane James

May 30, 20232 min read

Posture

Human Posture Recognition for Behaviour Understanding

by Bernard Boulay UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE – SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS UFR Sciences ABSTRACT During this thesis, we have proposed a real-time, generic,...

Today your Mind is Mainly the Mind of Others

Sylviane James

May 30, 20233 min read

Mind

Today your Mind is Mainly the Mind of Others

“She follows her instinct and flees. People judge her decision, her motive. But she finds her destiny” WE ARE SO OFTEN CONSUMED BY THE...

Healing The Posture of a Beaten Man (CASE STUDY)

Sylviane James

May 30, 20231 min read

Posture

Healing The Posture of a Beaten Man (CASE STUDY)

by Sylviane James Ben Let’s call this gentleman Ben. I saw him walking towards the door of the clinic this day. He was very tanned, with...

Sylviane James

May 30, 20232 min read

Body

The Body does not lie

” Through the Body, as in Nature, we have access to Life universal intelligence, wisdom and billions of years of information and...

A Case for the Human Stance in Body Mechanics

Sylviane James

May 30, 20231 min read

Body

A Case for the Human Stance in Body Mechanics

by Maryann Foster During a class I teach at a local massage school, I watched an earnest student struggle to get into the horse stance....

The Natural History of Human Gait and Posture

Sylviane James

May 30, 20232 min read

Body

The Natural History of Human Gait and Posture

by C. Owen Lovejoy Department of Anthropology, Division of Biomedical Sciences, Matthew Ferrini Institute of Human Evolutionary Research,...

Transformative Postural Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain

Sylviane James

May 30, 20232 min read

Posture

Transformative Postural Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain

More than the alignment of our body, Human posture deeply and inevitably reflects our life experiences, traumas and beliefs. We will see...