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Adventures in healing

Dao by name, Dao by nature

An explanation of the Daoist view of Creation

Technical Conversations #3

How much does a "turf toe" injury affect the upward chain Significantly — especially in a body that already has a corkscrew, a functional short leg, and a sensitised nervous system. Turf toe is a hyperextension injury of the first metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint (the big toe). It damages the plantar capsule and ligaments under the joint. The classic mechanism:

Technical Conversations #2

I can feel that my fascia is twisted around my torso. It feels tight and flat from my right groin in a narrow fan pattern to just below my ribs and then around to my mid-back, it also feels as though it is "bunched up" over my right SI and over the QL. Any Qigong for this?

I’ve done it again

Or, how I set myself back weeks Yesterday I made a bit of a mistake. I was going through some of the exercises that Izzy Booker had prescribed me. And there's one that a kneeling lunge with the idea that it stretches and opens out the upper the upper hip on either side. For some strange reason I

Technical Conversations #1

Structured Summary of Key Discoveries [DATE RANGE — e.g., 2026-04-20 to 2026-05-06] 1. Baseline: The Corkscrew · The body is twisted in a rightward spiral (torso rotates right when eyes closed in standing). · The twist crosses at L1–L3 (thoracolumbar fascia) and involves the right SI joint, right inguinal crease (Kua), right neck, and left peroneal nerve

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