To welcome the new year I’d like to share an exchange I had around this time last year with Steve Elliot from Coherence Breathing. Our email correspondence was about the movement of the diaphragm in connection with the upright posture. He’d just sent me the new issue of his online magazine Swan & Stone which had sparked off questions I’d had about this for some time.
From: Nicola Caroli [mailto:hallo@nicolacaroli.com] Sent: Friday, December 30, 2016 2:56 AM To: steve.elliott@coherence.com Subject: Re: Swan & Stone, Volume 1, Issue 15: The Breathing State Of Mind
Dear Stephen,
as always I enjoyed reading your new issue. I have a question to the following statement:
“In September 2010 I asserted the theory that in land dwelling vertebrates, the evolution and sophistication of the diaphragm follows uprightness – the degree to which the head is carried above the chest and the chest is carried above the legs, where the more erect, the more prone the blood is to pooling due to gravity.” Read More