Biotensegrity Pioneers English January 2025

BIOTENSEGRITY

We need pioneers! We need people who are so deeply immersed in the subject that they are able to ask the right questions. We don't need new riding styles and therapies. We need people who can provide answers.

Are you with us?

Biotensegrity is a well-matching explanatory model for living bodies in motion. It follows the known laws of physics (like everything else on this planet), but offers different possibilities than, for example, those presented in the lever-based explanatory modell.

Biotensegrity provides a new and coherent approach to the observation and interpretation of movement and thus a new understanding of movement.

Biotensegrity explains why everything that works in living beings works AND why whatever doesn't work, doesn't work. (Susan Lowell de Solórzano).

Biotensegrity coherently explains what practitioners see and feel.

What's the course of action?

The course runs from January 15, 2025 to April 9, 2025 and is limited to six participants. The dates for the Zoom meetings* are

• Wednesday, January 15, 2025
• Wednesday, February 12, 2025
• Wednesday, March 12, 2025
• Wednesday, April 9, 2025

at 7pm UTC. The first meeting is scheduled for 8:00pm Europe, 2pm Whashington, 11am Sacramento and Auckland at the following day at 8am. Meetings will be recorded and posted on Google Drive for participants' personal use.

A workbook in the form of a joint Google presentation (PPP) will be available 24/7 for exchange and questions, with prompt editing on my part. This joint work over the entire period represents the core of the course. Images can be inserted and questions asked, videos linked and comprehension problems solved individually and generally.

Upon registration, you will have access to the Google Drive folder with the workbook and the instructions for building models.

What's on the menu?

1st Month

Models - what benefits do models have, what do they convey and what don't they convey? We build a simple model and learn what properties tensegral structures have and how living beings differ from models. Which properties of living beings can be attributed to tensegral structures?

2nd month

You'll get an idea of the underlying principles of biotensegrity and of the effect of basic universal laws of physics in tensegral structures.

We free anatomy from the lever model, because there is a way to use the physical forces acting on all bodies creatively instead of resisting them.

You'll gain a new understanding of anatomy and living bodies in motion based on the explanatory model of biotensegrity.

3rd month

We'll talk about algorithms in the context of movement competence and interaction with the environment.

You'll learn about the function of kinematic chains in biotensegral systems and where a functional posture in horses comes from.

You'll find out which way of training enables the horses to evolve their biotensegral potential and become strong and reliable mounts.

The course ends with a final meeting.

IS BIOTENSEGRITY A TRADEMARK ?

No. Just like biomechanics. Or chemistry. Or fascia. Strictly speaking, it is an explanatory model that describes the tensegral structures in living beings and explains the locomotion of living beings on the basis of tensegral principles.

The Biotensegrity Archive* has set itself the task of compiling and publishing all information, studies and scientific principles on the subject and ensuring that the term is not misused.

Because: Biotensegrity is neither a riding style or form of therapy nor a training method, neither a trademark nor a patent.

I have been in personal contact with Steve Levin since 2016 and have been part of the international Biotensegrity Interest Group since 2018, where I presented about horses and biotensegrity in 2018 and 2019. I also gave several talks at the BiotensegriTea Party that took place during the first lockdown. A recording of my presentation at the Biotensegrity & Equine Health Colloquy can be found on my YouTube channel.

My work and, above all, my new ideas are subject to a peer review process within the Biotensegrity Archive, whereby I am immediately made aware of any errors of reasoning or incorrect conclusions on my part.

*www.biotensegrityarchive.org