Sources & images
How this site handles evidence, tradition, and pictures — written plainly, because it is the part most wellness sites skip.
The labels
Every factual claim on this site carries a tag. This is what lets a fictional, AI-assisted character write about movement without misleading anyone.
| Label | What it means |
|---|---|
| KINESIOLOGY | Standard anatomy — which muscles and joints are involved. Uncontroversial. |
| EVIDENCE | Backed by research we can point you to. Where the evidence only covers a whole practice set rather than one movement, we say so. |
| TRADITION | What a named lineage teaches — qi, meridians, organ systems, chakras. Presented as tradition, never as biomedical fact. |
| EXPERIENCE | What practitioners commonly report. Not a promise about you. |
| PRACTICAL | A sensible default where no good evidence exists. We would rather admit that than invent a reason. |
| CANON | Yarra’s own philosophy and voice. Hers, not medicine. |
What we will never claim
No cure. No pain relief. No weight loss. No detox. No trauma release. No posture “fixing”. No disease prevention. No organ healing. If a movement tradition makes such a claim, we report that the tradition makes it — we do not adopt it.
Images: why you will not find borrowed photos here
Every instructional image on this site is original to it. We do not republish other people’s instructional photography, illustrations, or diagrams — not even with a credit line.
This is a deliberate choice, and worth explaining. Citing a source tells a reader where something came from; it does not grant permission to reproduce it. Most movement photography online is somebody’s copyrighted work, often a teacher’s livelihood. Crediting them and republishing anyway would still be taking it.
So we do three things instead:
- We make our own. Demonstration images are AI-generated and labelled as such. Body maps and diagrams are drawn for this site.
- We link rather than copy. Where somebody else’s page, paper, or video explains something well, you will find a link to it in the Sources & further study section of the relevant page. Their work stays on their site, where it belongs.
- We use public-domain and openly licensed material where it genuinely exists — and say which, and where it came from.
A useful thing to know
Publications of the U.S. federal government — including the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health at the NIH — are generally in the public domain. Their evidence summaries are free to quote and reuse, and they are careful, sceptical documents. Several pages here cite them for exactly that reason.
On research links
Where we point at research, we prefer to link to a database search or an official evidence summary rather than a single cherry-picked study. Individual studies are often small; the honest picture is usually the messier one. If the evidence for something is thin, the page says the evidence is thin.
On tradition
We name lineages accurately, romanise terms properly, and do not blend traditions into a vague spiritual smoothie. Where lineages disagree with each other, we say so rather than picking whichever version sounds tidiest. Traditional frameworks are treated as what they are — long, serious bodies of practice knowledge — and not dressed up as physiology.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, we want to know and we will fix it visibly rather than quietly. Write to smiletoyourbody@gmail.com.