What is Tensegrity, and how does it relate to or inform your understanding of integrative health care?
Tensegrity is the modern name given to the magical passesmovements and positions of body and breath that were discovered by men and women shamans who lived in Mexico prior to the conquest, and practiced for their profound effect on ones mental and physical well-being and awareness. (The discipline of Tensegrity: the modern version of the magical passes, and a way of being that promotes the best use of ones energy). The movements elicit a reorganization of ones own natural energy in a way that promotes wellbeing and youth. The word Tensegrity was coined by Buckminster Fuller, architect and scientist, well known here in Aspen and in all US, who described it as a combination of tensional integrity, referring to the forces at work in a structure that is formed by a finite network of compression, or rigid elements interconnected through tensile, or elastic elements, giving the structure an overall integrity. For example, in the human body, the compressive forces are the bones, and the tendo
