Gravity vs Levity: Learn Integral Anatomy with Gil Hedley 

Thank you for your additions/thoughts here Barry, and indeed the effects of NOT being in gravity are super relevant to think about...a life in the physical without the best version of that "stress" as we know it on earth's surface poses very peculiar challenges~

Thank you too Gabe, I appreciate the poetry you bring to our threads here!!

Wonderful! I appreciate hearing your interesting perspective as a dancer and Alexander teacher Dana!

Ah yes this is great thank you Ales, I very much appreciate you sharing this quote! I also feel that Dr. Rolf was VERY keen, in the environment of the 1950's, to be accused of practicing medicine without a license etc., give that her contemporary Wilhelm Reich had his books burned by the FDA and was jailed for selling "medical devices" (his orgone accumulator) across state lines. That was a cautionary tale for innovators in care at that time of which she was no doubt painfully aware and mindful of, thus her disclaimer as to being a therapist of any kind, and instead an educator.

@@gilhedley449 I think that's one part. The other consists of an appeal towards the humility of the practitioner. The practitioner doesn't 'heal'. The practitioner opens the possibility for gravity to act on the client's system in such a way that the overall structure improves and the symptoms usually either disappear or are greatly reduced. The practitioner acts more like a 'mid-wife'. The client's system has all the information already, nothing is added, only uncovered and made possible. To use a gardening analogy - get rid of some of the weeds so that the flowers can grow.

Thank you Alison!

You are most welcome, I appreciate your interest :)

Thank you my friend! For folks who don't know Marty Ryan of LoveYourGutsSeminars, you should look into his amazing offerings, he is an expert in the viscera and has a great deal to offer on matters of therapeutic interventions regarding them!

Thank you, I'm glad this hit the mark for you!

VERY interesting! The internal martial arts are quite brilliant~

Wow thank you Jule, I appreciate your enthusiasm and kindness!

Thank you so much Willowtree!

How cool is that, thank you Alina!

You're welcome Laura, thank you for your dedicated interest!

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Thank you Catherine! Loving the deep diving too!

Thanks for bringing further out into the world Catherine!

It is a nice alternative/addition to just considering the bony alignment, and changed my thinking too when I first encountered Barral's work!

Yes that sounds very plausible Grant, thank you!

You're welcome Angel, thanks for watching!

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Well that is certainly one possibility BetsyAnn, pressure differentials out of whack can be at work in the case of prolapse, though there is rarely a single "cause," given the multiple factors at play. It is of course also possible for their to be tissue damage or excessive laxity in ligamentous and muscular structures as well. I lean towards hope for full recovery when the multiple factors that can be contributing are addressed!

@@gilhedley449 Yup! Makes sense to me, though people often don't like the multi-factorial explanation...To those, I like to talk about it as a process, one thing leading to another. It seems more digestible to folks, allowing those different issues to be addressed as the person recognizes the different stuff ! Btw: missed your physical presence at the Montreal FRC!

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Hi Marty! I would answer absolutely yes! The fluids are literally being "sucked" into the low pressure zone of the chest, as well as the chambers of the heart, where the spinning contraction and ejection of the blood from the ventricles pulls as well. So both the lungs and the heart are rhythmically drawing blood up the vena cava. With respect to the sphincter of Oddi up the cystic duct, the gall bladder itself as it draws fluid out of the bile generates it's own low pressure zone within the general region of the abdominal space, in addition to the orientation being "up" and towards the thorax, so there are multiple considerations contributing to that~ very fun to think about! The lymphatics are definitely facilitated by this as well, clear to the tippy top of the thorax where the thoracic duct dumps into the left subclavian vein, so that it also jumps in on the low pressure zone of the right atrium in addition to that of the thorax in general. Your questions are prompting me to consider these zones within zones and I'm loving it :) As for retrograde menstruation, that is super interesting (with all due respect to the distresses concomitant to it)~ The pelvic pressure relative to the atmosphere is higher than that of the abdomen, as mentioned in the video. Yet the uterine tubes somehow reverse the gradient as a normal phenomenon, at least when an ovum is released INTO the abdomen from the ovaries, since they are actually situated in the abdominal space. I am not sure if it is always the case during a given cycle that the pressure gradient is reversed, or if it is only during ovulation in order to "capture" the ovum and move it down the uterine tube. If it is a "periodic" gradient reversal, that might account for "reverse menstruation" and even other phenomenon such as endometriosis. Stuff wants to go "up." And somehow nature is able to go against the gradient in this case. And perhaps under some conditions that I do not understand, that capacity to "hold out" and reverse flow against the upward gradient fails, and the laws of physics are given full sway. This could also account for ectopic abdominal pregnancies as well as failure to become pregnant. So much to think about, thank you Marty, I can always count on you to make my brain go into high gear!!

@@somanaut ... thanks Gil. That is really great!

Another “info-training” video, Gil! 🙏🏽🧡

You're very welcome Chika!

Thank you Dawn!

Thanks for watching Katy!

Thank you for watching and sharing Virginia, I'm glad the content I share is worthwhile to you!!

Wow what a great and distressing challenge you are facing, thank you for sharing your experience in this thread. I am not even slightly qualified to chime in on these complex medical circumstances. Your condition sounds wickedly exhausting, you sound to me to be incredibly courageous, I am filled with respect for you, and I am praying for your relief and envisioning a more easy experience of wholeness for you in this moment. I am of a belief that anything can be healed, and that we can literally replace the patterns our bodies are holding/enduring with new patterns, and that we need not lock our minds into any paradigm or experience, regardless of the seeming intransigence of circumstance or etiology, because energy patterns are prior to the physical, and those physical patterns can be changed with new energy patterns, and those energy patterns are subject to the power of thought, and they can be reprogrammed to express differently, regardless of what triggered them in the current direction. If your pattern could be disrupted by an experiment, perhaps another experiment, one with a much more wholesome intention of your own design, can disrupt that aberrant pattern introduced during your USAF service. I am no expert in these matters, simply a fellow traveller and chronic optimist! There are folks who are expert in such transformations however, and I would encourage you to look up the videos here on RU-vid of stories of transformations of people doing the work taught by Joe Dispenza from some really difficult physical challenges who overcame them, including hard core genetic issues like cystic fibrosis ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kaRtpyAIHJk.html ) , etc. As for the absolutely immediate circumstance of pressure buildup, I am wondering if you get any relief from or have tried a flotation tanks or pools (with adequate support to assure your safety)? Not a long term solution of course, for that I would turn to the work above mentioned, but mini vacations from chronic distress like a float could create windows of relief for your mind to conjure new possibilities. Conjuring a vision of a beautiful future for you here!

What a gift, Gil, your insight, perceptions, understanding of intergalactic biophysics of subtle energy into this realm. You are spot on with the flotation in hydrotherapy which I call my levity chamber where thought and re-patterning of my intended conjuring can manifest. I will check out Joe Dispenza and I look forward to enlightening more through your membership program. I appreciate your thoughtful, powerful response!

I say run with any metaphor that gets us enjoying the incredible lightness of being that is our birthright on this spinning planet! Thanks for watching!

Haha yes Donna, well, how about experimenting with postural positions, and noticing how you feel in them, and noticing whether the sense of lift is more facilitated one way or another :) I always struggle with "the dismount" from my videos, we laugh about it as we film them, gotta work on that!

This is a very interesting question Jenn, deserving of some serious pondering! And on the other side, folks with cluster headaches get relief from vasoconstrictors, opposite of caffeine...may be issues with the carotid plexus as well, and how that relates to pressure differential issues is a deep question, gotta chew on that, thank your for contributing here!

Excellent point Jakajajestem, thank you!

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Thank you for the gravity-lesson Adrian, I will look those up! And I'm not convinced either Newton or Einstein have it right to tell you the truth: smart people will inevitably disagree about how to describe complex realities with simple and inadequate words, and folks far less smart than Newton or Einstein like myself will certainly bungle it. I would be willing to toss the word "gravity" altogether and replace it with the interoceptive feeling we have of being pressed down, to which the common-parlance use of the word "gravity" refers, regardless of what is actually happening in terms of old physics, or new physics, or yet to be described physics. Thank you for adding to the thread, I will certainly enjoy expanding my inventory of models for gravity!!

@@gilhedley449 You're right in the sense that we already know that Einstein's General Relativity isn't a complete picture, he's not 100% right, but we also know due to such effects as gravitational lensing of light (plus other features) that the curvature of space-time by massive objects will survive a more complete theory. It's this curvature that leads to the earth actually pushing up under your feet. As counterintuitive as that is.

How does this theory of the Earth pushing up under our feet relate to postural anomalies, Adrian Farrell? We adjust…we are incredible organisms…I like that Dr. Hedley often states this in his dissection work. I have been in debate with Dr. Hedley because he dissed my beloved art, ballet. Dr. Rolf's work which has inspired so many to find alternative methods to help adjust the body, through manual therapy and it has helped millions of folks-I have never been Rolfed, but I have seen practitioners such as Thomas Myers who practice Rolf 2.1 ( a less invasive version of Rolfing-my term)help their clients. Chapter 15 of 'Rolfing' addresses vertical thrust. Would the body not adjust to whatever surface that the human is on? Take a body on a raked stage-after a while, you intuitively get the idea that having your weight aligned forwards is going to challenge you to stay down right upright.. And then as you move up the rake, you intuitively get, 'Uh oh, need a little more 4 wheel drive…' As Gil states, he is using Rolf's thesis relative to Barral's (sic?) theory. I would like to research this as it agrees with my pedagogical teacher's work in teaching ballet. You can find Yoko Ichino on RU-vid, as well…she defies gravity but teaches with a substantial emphasis on grounding. I will read Barral so that i can ask more questions of a teacher that humbly states that he isn't a guru but is always learning.

@@AdrianFarrell Weird, right?!

@@MsCathyyo I was just pointing out that that he used a scientifically out dated idea. But to answer your question, for me it's a matter of behaviour, people behave differently if the incorrectly think they're being dragged down.