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The body

Two ways of describing the body, kept apart. Structural anatomy is the bones, joints, muscles and organs as they are studied today. The traditional models are how Ayurveda and the Yog texts describe it. Neither section diagnoses anything.

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Structural anatomy

What the body is made of, and how it moves, as it bears on practice.

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Traditional models of the body

The elements, the doshas, prana and the subtle body, as the tradition describes them. These are models within a tradition, not anatomy.

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