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I became the "cartographer" of the Anatomy Trains myofascial meridian map way back in the 1980s. I published a book on these linkages in 2000, and since then, many good folks have challenged me six ways from Sunday to prove this revision of musculoskeletal function. Building these myofascial meridians is not so difficult: String the muscles together into functional complexes that run in more-or-less straight lines at the same myofascial layer. The fascial net we have been hearing a lot about connects the "tracks" from muscle to muscle across the joints. Of course, these Anatomy Trains are not the only fascial connections in the body by any means, but understanding them is totally relevant to how humans stand and move so precariously (Image 1). A B M P m e m b e r s ea r n F R E E C E h o u r s by rea d i n g t h i s i s s u e ! 37 See the Bigger Picture in Spiral Movements By Thomas Myers OUR THREE ROTATIONAL MUSCLE SYSTEMS