Backbone and Wingspan: Spines in Flight

Backbone and Wingspan® focuses on the bones of the back, not all of which are the obvious vertebrae that comprise the spine - albeit the backbone.

 

 

 

 

It is my mission within each and every session to create a true learning experience within the exercises we may perform for strengthening  or the stretches we may perform for releasing tightness and tension.

I'm really here to relay experiential information that can change the way you perceive your body as opposed to giving you cues for how-to-do or adding a tip or two while you move.

Backbone literally implies possessing a sense of the spine but figuratively, in a way that translates to your physicality,

 

Backbone connotes a mutual feeling of both ease and empowerment.

 

 

 

Backbone is a great facility and freedom in the expression of oneself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are several other bones along the backside of the body

that serve to support the spinal column and

thus give full access to the entire line of spine and

grant a true sense of both ease and empowerment -

 

 

these other bones along the backside are

 

the scapula,

 

the sit bones,

 

and the sacrum.

 

 

 

 

The scapula are the wing bones, and dropping into the musculature underneath the scapula

(the triceps, the lats, the lower traps)

ultimately gives one

the sense of being winged.

 

 

 

In The Power of Myth 

Joseph Campbell states, 

"The serpent bound to the earth, the eagle in spiritual flight - isn't that conflict something we all experience? And then, when they amalgamate, we get a wonderful dragon, a serpent with wings. All over the earth, people recognize these images."

I had a revelatory moment one day in my teaching while relaying to a student that the quality of the spine moving through space is an undulation. 

I remembered someone telling me that the spine is a serpentine line.

You'll discover and experience all the ranges of motion of the spine within your study

with Tim and the Backbone and Wingspan way of understanding your body:

Rounding the Spine Arching the Spine Side Bending the Spine Unwinding or Spiraling the Spine

 

 

I put together that serpentine comes from serpent.

I realized that when I chose Backbone and Wingspan, without knowing it, I had given my business - and my beliefs about the body - a mythological name.




Backbone and Wingspan
is a spine that has the capacity to feel flight.

Tim Driscoll, Backbone and Wingspan®

Backbone and Wingspan founder and owner

and author of Body Mind & Spine Align

is located on the Upper East Side at

Mind Your Body Pilates

1370 Lexington Avenue @ 90th Street

and at SPACE

Pilates Yoga and Beyond

in Bedford Hills

 

Tim can be reached at

212-647-8878

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Email: tim@backboneandwingspan.com