10/12/2025
✨ The Anatomy Trail — an overlay of trail building and bodywork ✨
Both landscapes share a quiet intelligence. A depth. A story in what is seen on the surface and what lies beneath.
On the trails, trailbuilders read the land with vision, knowledge, and instinct: the way rich soils hold moisture, the behaviour of granite and clay, the natural contours that guide flow.
They craft the topography — where water will run, where a berm belongs, where rock should anchor, and where the trail should breathe.
In clinic, a bodyworker reads the body through knowledge, touch, and instinct - our hands are our tools, interpreting the direction of muscle fibre, the glide or resistance of fascia, and the tension shaped by load, stress, or injury.
Mapping direction, depth, and density — reading the topography of the human body to craft the best approach for massage or treatment.
Both crafts — trail building and therapeutic bodywork — honour complexity.
Both require respect for structure and movement.
Both recognise the fluidity in seemingly solid forms — whether rock or muscle, trail bed or connective tissue.
Here’s to the trail builders and the therapists — the ones who read hidden layers beneath the surface and shape them into movement, freedom, and flow. 🌿🚵♀️✨
