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ABOUT SKELETHEA™
About Me
I’m a movement specialist and pioneer in neuromotor exploration, with a focus on the spine. I have developed, demonstrated, and taught the ability to voluntarily move individual vertebrae—a form of conscious motor control that, to my knowledge, has not previously been recognized.
My work is grounded in direct embodied research, including more than 15,000 hours of personal practice developing the ability to consciously select and voluntarily control individual vertebrae and the spinal column as a whole.
This ability has been clinically observed and objectively documented through physician-observed ultrasound, surface EMG, and, early in the development of this work, radiology-reviewed stress X-rays demonstrating voluntarily produced changes in spinal alignment.
I continue to work with medical professionals and am seeking researchers interested in further investigating, measuring, and documenting this ability.
I have successfully taught voluntary spinal and vertebral control to others for more than eighteen years. My work examines how conscious voluntary control of the spinal column—from whole-spine organization to individual vertebral levels—changes our understanding of movement, performance, spinal function, and rehabilitation.
SKELETHEA™
Voluntary spinal and vertebral control is the ability to consciously and voluntarily initiate, organize, and direct movement from the spinal column itself—from movement of the spine as a whole to selective control at individual vertebral levels.
Rather than simply changing the position of the spine through movement of the trunk, pelvis, or surrounding musculature, the individual learns to direct movement from the spine itself. With training, the spinal column can be consciously lengthened, reorganized, flexed, extended, rotated, laterally flexed, and selectively moved at individual vertebral levels or in groups of vertebrae.
This changes the relationship a person has with the spine. There is no single “correct” position that the spine must be held in. With voluntary spinal and vertebral control, the spine can remain active, organized, lengthened, and responsive through many different positions because it can continually adapt and reorganize rather than being held in one fixed shape.
The work progresses from conscious awareness and organization of the entire spinal column toward increasingly refined vertebral control. Just as the fingers can be consciously directed through many different movements and configurations, the vertebrae can become increasingly available to conscious voluntary direction.