The Program Concepts

These concepts are embedded in the design of Bones For Life movement processes. For fuller development of these concepts, visit the Program Rationale.

1. Dynamic movement - A natural key for stimulating bone strength

• Using body weight for self-locomotion through springy pressure
  
• Rhythmical micro-bouncing potential for nutrients to penetrate into solid bone
  
• Need triggers capability; lifting weights in safe body organization

2. Characteristics of bone-strengthening pressure

• Pulsations of rhythmical and springy pressure
  
• Volume of pressure equivalent to dynamic walk
  
• Organizing the posture in two-way consistent passage of flow for the body weight bearing down and for the counter pressure from the earth lifting up

3. Somatic learning through exploration of unused options

• The brain chooses to update its habit when the new suggestion is accepted by the entire body
  
• Awakening the brain to authentic judgment; shaking automatic response by acting in non-habitual coordination
  
• Balance between comfort and challenge
  
• Organization vs. effort; listening to harmonious quality vs. achieving quantitative goal
  
• Descend in order to ascend; withdraw in order to advance
  
• Resist in order to strengthen; challenge in order to stimulate capacity
  
• Conscious exaggeration for controlling a non-conscious counter-productive tendency
  
• Sensitivity to individual boundaries vs. ambition to perform a standard
  
• Neurological diplomacy: intentional imitation of a dysfunction in order to awaken the brain to drop it
  
• Reciprocal relationships: models of reins vs elastic
  
• Put the engine behind: moving from the backbone vs recruiting the soft front
  
• 20% pressure, the optimal effect

4. Organic patterns of self-mobilization

• Integration: harmonious cooperation between all body parts
  
• Domino effect: navigating a continuous trajectory for undisturbed transmission of pressure from foot to head
  
• Counter symmetry: exchanging roles between right and left
  
• Walking: alternating response to pressure between wave and axis
  
• Proportional distribution of labor between center and periphery
  
• Using arms as legs; re-empowering the wrists
  
• Ping-pong integration through back and forth communication between polarities
  
• Sphincters: the antigravity internal network
  
• Jumping: the ultimate guide to weight-bearing posture

5. Strategies for outsmarting gravity: the skeleton as the main device for effortless vertical posture and easy mobilization

• Tapping the heels - rhythmical pulsations of springy pressure
  
• Transmission in wave - differentiating the spine in undulation
  
• Transmission in axis - undifferentiated spine to sustain pressure
  
• Taking the power for lifting up from pushing down
  
• Detaching weight in an airplane style of gradual sliding contact vs. using helicopter style of direct taking off
  
• Jumping: utilizing one's own weight to provoke the uplifting force from the planet
  
• Ideal movement: all body parts are equally unimportant
  
• Ideal posture: skeleton leans on itself with no work of the muscles
  
• The harness as a loan of integration
  
• The power of visualization

6. Applying organic patterns of walking in greenhouse conditions

• Applying interconnections of a natural walk as a context for introducing new ways of bone-strengthening pressure
  
• Pushing a wall in lying down and standing up
  
• Using a harness to enhance security and uniformity of axis
  
• Using knots and props to elicit changes in posture
  
• Resisting movement in order to clarify it
  
• Creeping the prototype of self-propelling organization

7. Strengthening bone conditioned on aligning the skeleton into a weight-bearing posture

• The primary consideration: personal safety
  
• Aligning the neck: avoiding over-compression of in-curve
  
• Aligning the lumbar: bridging upper and lower body
  
• Reorientation of hip joint: aligning legs to body
  
• Functional knees: eliciting spontaneous springiness
  
• Recapitulating intelligence of feet: distribution of pressure determines posture
  
• Strengthening the spine: initiating movement from the back vs. over-emphasizing stomach muscles
  
• Freeing the rib cage: the key to reorganization

8. Challenge builds motivation

• Getting familiar with a style of power
  
• Pulling hands: reorganizing upper body through the function of climbing
  
• Regaining equilibrium by cultivating the courage to risk it
  
• Falling down wisely: learning to reduce injury