Spinal Intelligence

For decades, we've been told to stabilize our cores, correct our posture, and protect our spines from movement. The result? More disconnection, more pain, and a deep mistrust of our own bodies. Spinal Intelligence offers a different way. Drawing on movement science, stress physiology, and more than two decades of working with real people, movement educator Jenn Pilotti reveals how the spine doesn't just support movement - it participates in it, initiates it, and responds to the full complexity of our lives. The spine isn't a problem to be fixed. It's an intelligence to be cultivated. Through accessible concepts and hands-on practices, readers will explore how stress, sleep, breath, and body awareness all shape the way we move. Each chapter builds on the last, moving from anatomy and nervous system function to flexibility, coordination, the myth of the core, and finally to integrated movement practices designed to be used again and again. Along the way, Pilotti introduces the concept of durability - not rigidity or perfection, but the capacity to absorb life's inevitable challenges and return to center. This book is for the person who has stretched and strengthened and still feels stuck. For anyone who has been told something is wrong with their spine. For anyone who wants to feel lighter, move more freely, and finally come home to the center of themselves. The spine isn't fragile. Neither are you.