What is Tensegrity?

Tensegrity is a model of support based on the interplay of tensions moderated by floating spacers. It's a new paradigm from the familiar stack-of-blocks compression model.

It's a very elegant idea. Maybe it'll take some time to get. Look it up. There's plenty on the subject.

In the field of Rolf Stuctural Integration it has its appeal owing to how it illustrates how the tensional support of the fibrous rich Fascial system works in concert with the bony skeleton. 

In the Tensegrity model, bones don't hold up the structure with muscles creating the balance. In tensegrity, bones are more like spacers.

Here are a couple of examples: