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Episode Overview
In this episode, Beatrice Brunelli brings a perspective you don't often find in the movement world: one that is equal parts scientific and embodied. A former competitive athlete, engineer, and myofascial yoga teacher, Beatrice has spent years working at the intersection of fascial anatomy, the nervous system, and yoga practice. What emerges is a conversation about what it actually means to train the whole body — not as a collection of parts to manage, but as a living system in constant dialogue with what we do, feel, and experience.

• What We Cover
  How a teenager managing breathing problems in swimming and horse-riding competitions ended up charting a path toward myofascial yoga
• What fascia is, why athletes tend to be more guarded in this tissue, and why that stiffness is something to work with, not against
• The distinction between good stress and bad stress — and why sport itself is a stressor we rarely name as one
• The BodyTensFlow® method: how it came to be, why time was the central design problem, and why 30 to 90 seconds of fascial work per area is enough to create a real response in the body
• What the contrast between Italy and Northern Europe reveals about how differently we relate to the body — and the cultural shift that's already underway in how we train
• What athletes and coaches would gain from treating movement as a complete system, and what's still standing in the way

Resources and Links
Beatrice's website: yogamiofasciale.it
Beatrice on Instagram: @beatrice.brunelli.yoga

About the Guest
Beatrice Brunelli is a myofascial yoga teacher, engineer, and creator of the BodyTensFlow® method. After fifteen years as a competitive athlete — first as a swimmer, then in horse riding — she studied energy engineering and worked for a multinational company before returning to movement full time. Her work sits at the intersection of fascial anatomy, nervous system science, and yoga practice, and she now teaches practitioners through a master's programme she developed in myofascial release. Her book on BodyTensFlow® is available in Italian, with more to come.

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Episode Credits
Produced, Edited and Mixed by Chris Forbes
Artwork Design by Utterly Create
Music is by Pictures of a Floating World from the Free Music archive.org

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