MIDLINES, STANDING, and GAIT

We’re deep in the architecture phase of the Midline book.

Not writing exercises.
Not listing milestones.
Not fixing movement.

We’re mapping the structure that movement depends on.

Right now, the work is focused on visualizing and defining:
• gravity
• buoyancy
• rotation
• and how these forces establish midline before skill ever shows up

Because if that architecture isn’t there, no amount of strengthening, bracing, cueing, or gait analysis will create functional movement.

This book isn’t about teaching bodies what to do. It’s about understanding when a body is available to do anything at all.

We’re building this from the ground up:
• prenatal → birth → horizontal → vertical → transitional → locomotion
• not as milestones to chase
• but as organizational stages that repeat across a lifetime

Midline isn’t a line. It’s a return. It’s reversibility under force. It’s how gravity stops being something the body braces against and becomes something the body negotiates.

This is the part most systems skip.
This is why compensation gets mistaken for progress.
And this is why “stronger” so often replaces “more functional.”

Still drawing floor plans.
The building comes next.

— Michelle

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