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Mother Nature’sdesigns are ingenious, and this applies very much to our back.

It is principally constructed like two crosses on top of each other, the upper one made of the vertebral column and the shoulder blades, and the lower one made of again the vertebral column and the pelvis. Shoulder blades and pelvis are the reinforcements to the vertebral column at the spots where our limbs have their origin.

So when Mother Nature created this, she obviously had a maximum of static stability in mind.

The vertebral column consists of bony segments, the vertebrae, and cartilage in between, separating the vertebrae from each other. Powerful muscles, tendons and ligaments attach the reinforcements -shoulder blades and pelvis – to this. This concept allows for a maximum of flexibility. How much flexibility that means you can observe in the exercises of a yoga master or a world-class gymnast – there are hardly any limits to the movements of a well-trained back.

And actually you can see almost the same stunning perfection in playing children – there is a certain bitter irony in the fact that we frequently tend to see their jolly frolicking as “childish” and somehow suppress our envy by not admitting that this “childishness” indeed is nothing more than a virgin back being driven to the peak of its performance: something already way beyond our “adult” capabilities which at a close look are nothing but the restrictions of deficiencies.