Question from a follower on social media: Hi! I love the work of Tom Myers. Could he discuss his views on electric massage tools?  Tom: Thanks for the question! Three levels of answer: 1) I am an advocate for the human hand – for human touch, its skill and its comfort and connection to a beating heart, far above any tool or machine I have ever experienced. The Metaverse might yet produce a superior hands-on treatment, but I doubt it. That said, and given that skilled human touch is often expensive and not always available, let’s go to another level: 2) Using a tool – theraballs and cups ..read more

Intermediate strata is the arthroscopic surgeons’ term for ‘loose fascia’. Add this to Thies’ interstitium, Hedley’s peri-fascial membranes, Guimberteau’s Multimicrovacuolar Collagen Absorbing System, Borden’s Rapidly-Adap[ting Internal Network, or my Biomehcanical Auto-Regulatory System, Or go with the traditional: intermuscular fascia, areolar, adipose, subcutaneous, hypodermis – so very many words for different areas within our singular ‘biome’ of the fascial web. This whole trend of model making is interesting, as is arthroscopic surgery, which has a different point-of-view from tradi ..read more

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson We have had so many best days of the year in 2023 thanks to all of you, our Anatomy Trains global family, friends and team. On this first day of the new year we send gratitude to everyone who participated in a class or training, either online or in person, purchased a product, followed us, told a friend or client about us and were generally the best cheerleaders we could ever hope for. Deep thanks go out to our amazing teachers and assistants, our educational partners, course sponsors and dedicated ..read more

Out on the road again this autumn, I have been asked by many people about the relationship between the acupuncture meridians and the ‘myofascial meridians’ of Anatomy Trains.     Let me begin by saying that I myself know almost nothing about acupuncture, the meridians, or Asian medicine in general. I built / discovered / mapped the Anatomy Trains entirely out of regular western anatomy books like Netter and Sobotta and many others. Of course I saw the parallels, but I did not want to shoehorn my system into that system when I was so ignorant of all the implications, variat ..read more

We are thrilled to invite you to take your career to the next level with Anatomy Trains Structural Integration (ATSI) certification training, led by Anatomy Trains author Tom Myers in San Diego, California in 2024! “The program exceeded my expectations. It gave me a recipe that I can follow to make sure I am taking care of the whole body and not just [the client’s] complaints.” – Kevin Hieber, ATSI 2022 Graduate All three parts will be held in San Diego in 2024, with Part 1 beginning February 5th! There’s never been a better time to apply to this transformational training.    Enjoy ..read more

We are so excited to see Anatomy Trains myofascial meridians posters highlighted in the Netflix docuseries Quarterback! We are thrilled to see Dr. Ann Stark using myofascial release techniques in these photos taken from episode 3 in the series. Providers like Dr. Stark have told us that Tom Myers’ Anatomy Trains principles enhance athlete performance and recovery through holistic body structure understanding. These principles emphasize myofascial meridians as interconnected fascial lines transmitting force. Tensional integrity distributes load across the body, improving overall performance an ..read more

Question via email from a colleague:  Hi Tom, Quick question. Do you have some reference of Ida Rolf ever talking or writing about Buckminster Fuller and Tensegrity? Tom replies:  Hi back I have seen no writing of hers on Bucky or tensegrity – Jeff Lynn is who I would ask, his historical brain might know of something. To my knowledge they never met, though Bucky did get a session from Jim Asher. In the run-up Bucky resisted the ‘integration’ idea, insisting he’s been taught to ’stand up straight in the Navy’. I never saw Bucky after the session to ask him about it, but reportedly it ..read more

Editor’s note: We are so fortunate to be able to share these exciting before and after images from Jessie Owens, one of the students in Sharon Wheeler’s Tail End class, held August 1-4, 2023 at the Anatomy Trains Maine classroom. The session on Jessie was done by another student in class, Gabrielle Goldberg, who, despite being new to this work, was able to effect profound change under the careful tutelage of Sharon Wheeler. Before photos are on the left and after photos on the right.     Jessie says: “The changes I feel from the session are profound. Most obvious is my sense of mob ..read more

Anatomy Trains, in collaboration with the Laboratories of Anatomical Enlightenment, will be offering TWO exciting courses in Boulder, Colorado this October!   BodyReading 101 + 102 with Tom Myers – October 21-22, 2023 Fascial Dissection with Anatomy Trains author Tom Myers and Master Dissector Todd Garcia – October 24-27, 2023  Between classes, you have the chance to take part in an exclusive BodyReading photo shoot! Get a personalized BodyRead from Tom Myers and have your photos taken to be part of the 5th edition of the Anatomy Trains book! Students from either / both classes ..read more

We note with sadness the passing of Dr Hans Flury, the ‘first’ rolfer in Switzerland (in quotes, because Ida Rolf was in Switzerland in the 1920’s), at the same time I was the ‘first’ rolfer in England (Ida Rolf was there too, right up until she went to Esalen in the early 60’s).  Hans and I worked together with Robert Schleip and Peter Schwind, and Vandan to get the ‘first’ rolfing trainings in Europe started in the early 1980’s. What a time that was! And what a spirit he was!  Hans was a wonderfully iconoclastic individual. Of course in our school we teach the taking of a careful ..read more