I've taken a couple workshops with bodyworker Thomas Meyers. I did the foundation workshop in Anatomy Trains and then did another workshop with him through the Pilates Association of Canada on how to read bodies. I found them both incredibly worthwhile. Thomas has a way of talking about the body that makes you think about it in a fresh way. But even better than that, the way he talks about the body also makes you think of many other things in a fresh way. He is a systems thinker - and his insights into the body as a system can apply to any system.
Meyers emphasizes that any change to a dimension of the system is a change to the whole system. If you open it in one dimension, it opens in all dimensions. For example, as I wrote about earlier, yoga is about creating space, and if you create this space properly (without tightening another part of the body as you do it) in one area of the body, the whole body experiences a new spaciousness.
And so it is in life. If you create space in one part of your life, which could be as simple as decluttering or as big as quitting a job (or as in my case, just taking a leave), that sense of spaciousness expands through the rest of your life. I think this is the part of my experience of eating better when I have a clean, tidy house.
Or to put it another way, I wrote this in my journal a long time ago - noted it as being a quote from Deepockets Deepak Chopra while being interviewed on a CBC radio show (my husband calls this Yoda-speak):
Change that one thing by which changing everything else changes.
