Fascia, the 'World Wide Web' of your system
Fascia or connective tissue is the medium that connects everything in your body, conducts energy and provides communication. It gives the body the ability to rise against gravity, move around, and express itself.
Fascia is... so many things... where to start? Maybe here: it is the organ of your proprioception, which means: your self-perception sense.
It's your full body sensory instrument, through which you experience your movements, position, balance, internal relationships, orientation in space, without relying on vision.
It is the avenue through which you experience, discern connections, at the baseline of reality: frequency.
Perhaps I could say: every cell is that, but fascia certainly has its special role to fulfil. Each organ and ecosystem in the body has a very special role, and it is impossible to refer to one without referring to the other. Also external influences should be taken into account, just like it is impossible to separate a tree from the soil it grows from, nor from the rain and the sun nourishing it.
Nerves endings occur not only in your skin but also internally in your fascia, which enables sensations of both pleasure or pain. And even external happenings are received internally: when someone gets emotional, doesn't that often move bystanders in some way as well? Or imagine standing next to a huge waterfall that drums with tremendous power on the earth. What did you experience in your body, you probably sensed something? To me it felt like becoming charged like craaaazy!
Fascia, an internal landscape
In its many forms and shapes fascia is similar to structural aspects of natural life in a garden or forest. It can be very well compared to mycelium, the underground root network of mushrooms, the oldest life form on earth. Mycelium forms symbioses with plants and trees, creates networks of communication underground, transports water and nutrients, breaks down and recycles substances.
As much as there is yet to discover out there in our ever-evolving nature, that, in its complexity, grows only richer and more resilient continuously, as much there is to discover inwardly in the body. (My take.) For those who like to freedive inner space, discover perceptional landscapes. Perhaps that's why some clients say 'it's like I am in a plant ceremony' during a session, but then more real.
Something magic happens when people start to truly sense and shift into a more 'embodied' state. Not that you can be 'not embodied', because you are always in your body, but mostly peoples attention isn't there.
When someone performs on a stage, during a concert or with a speaker, you can also notice these nuances, and how an atmosphere arrives in the audience, and how the audience mirrors and adds something. These living creations in a space can be sensed in the body's networks.
Tuning to the wordless language that your body and fascia convey, gives a direct possibility to coincide with the hyperintelligence that our physical system is. The quality of your experience is your indicator of that.
The physical can not be seen apart from the human that 'carries' that body, and its unique story and relation to life. From my work (with thousands of bodies that is) I attest that peoples inner landscapes, and outlooks on life through their filters and perspectives are singularities, as all snowflakes are unique.
Over and over I have noticed, that tuning to this language opens doorways to wellbeing, clarity and groundedness. One that can call the future to the here & now, grounds potential as an actual experience, and makes integration of past experiences... 'doable' or sometimes even peanuts.
Fascia and finetuning experience
It certainly helps to know something - at minimum the least - about your body's anatomy though experiencing it. It brings all this abstract language that I am now using hopefully to life. Learning about the relationship between the body, perception and the role of language in thinking, I believe is a base for the ability to tune to your compass. Because everyone recognises congruency and flow when it's there, and this starts in the relationship between you and yourself.
I personally see fascia as the link between consciousness and form/substance. In other words: it is the (pliable mostly liquid) intersection between, on the one hand, the imprints of your internal perception on your body. And on the other hand the imprints of what's around you. To this topic can be said a lot more, and why it matters. Even nicer it is to experience it, and find your own ways to comprehend and translate.
When you get in touch with the forgotten pathways to physically regenerate that are just around the corner, the energy stored in your body's tissues find room again, and everything becomes easier.
Regeneration can't be seen apart from inter-relational needs, since often we have been forced to self-regulate too much, whereas in nature everything co-regulates. Its natural.
A lack of co-regulation leads to disconnection and, in my personal observation, eventually to all human-evoked problems.
Problems that when seen from the wisdom that our physical nature has in store, when we start including our own nature, are just chances for growth, resilience and regeneration.
Fascia or connective tissue is the medium that connects everything in your body, conducts energy and provides communication. It gives the body the ability to rise against gravity, move around, and express itself.
Fascia is... so many things... where to start? Maybe here: it is the organ of your proprioception, which means: your self-perception sense.
It's your full body sensory instrument, through which you experience your movements, position, balance, internal relationships, orientation in space, without relying on vision.
It is the avenue through which you experience, discern connections, at the baseline of reality: frequency.
Perhaps I could say: every cell is that, but fascia certainly has its special role to fulfil. Each organ and ecosystem in the body has a very special role, and it is impossible to refer to one without referring to the other. Also external influences should be taken into account, just like it is impossible to separate a tree from the soil it grows from, nor from the rain and the sun nourishing it.
Nerves endings occur not only in your skin but also internally in your fascia, which enables sensations of both pleasure or pain. And even external happenings are received internally: when someone gets emotional, doesn't that often move bystanders in some way as well? Or imagine standing next to a huge waterfall that drums with tremendous power on the earth. What did you experience in your body, you probably sensed something? To me it felt like becoming charged like craaaazy!
Fascia, an internal landscape
In its many forms and shapes fascia is similar to structural aspects of natural life in a garden or forest. It can be very well compared to mycelium, the underground root network of mushrooms, the oldest life form on earth. Mycelium forms symbioses with plants and trees, creates networks of communication underground, transports water and nutrients, breaks down and recycles substances.
As much as there is yet to discover out there in our ever-evolving nature, that, in its complexity, grows only richer and more resilient continuously, as much there is to discover inwardly in the body. (My take.) For those who like to freedive inner space, discover perceptional landscapes. Perhaps that's why some clients say 'it's like I am in a plant ceremony' during a session, but then more real.
Something magic happens when people start to truly sense and shift into a more 'embodied' state. Not that you can be 'not embodied', because you are always in your body, but mostly peoples attention isn't there.
When someone performs on a stage, during a concert or with a speaker, you can also notice these nuances, and how an atmosphere arrives in the audience, and how the audience mirrors and adds something. These living creations in a space can be sensed in the body's networks.
Tuning to the wordless language that your body and fascia convey, gives a direct possibility to coincide with the hyperintelligence that our physical system is. The quality of your experience is your indicator of that.
The physical can not be seen apart from the human that 'carries' that body, and its unique story and relation to life. From my work (with thousands of bodies that is) I attest that peoples inner landscapes, and outlooks on life through their filters and perspectives are singularities, as all snowflakes are unique.
Over and over I have noticed, that tuning to this language opens doorways to wellbeing, clarity and groundedness. One that can call the future to the here & now, grounds potential as an actual experience, and makes integration of past experiences... 'doable' or sometimes even peanuts.
Fascia and finetuning experience
It certainly helps to know something - at minimum the least - about your body's anatomy though experiencing it. It brings all this abstract language that I am now using hopefully to life. Learning about the relationship between the body, perception and the role of language in thinking, I believe is a base for the ability to tune to your compass. Because everyone recognises congruency and flow when it's there, and this starts in the relationship between you and yourself.
I personally see fascia as the link between consciousness and form/substance. In other words: it is the (pliable mostly liquid) intersection between, on the one hand, the imprints of your internal perception on your body. And on the other hand the imprints of what's around you. To this topic can be said a lot more, and why it matters. Even nicer it is to experience it, and find your own ways to comprehend and translate.
When you get in touch with the forgotten pathways to physically regenerate that are just around the corner, the energy stored in your body's tissues find room again, and everything becomes easier.
Regeneration can't be seen apart from inter-relational needs, since often we have been forced to self-regulate too much, whereas in nature everything co-regulates. Its natural.
A lack of co-regulation leads to disconnection and, in my personal observation, eventually to all human-evoked problems.
Problems that when seen from the wisdom that our physical nature has in store, when we start including our own nature, are just chances for growth, resilience and regeneration.
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Fascia anatomically
Fascia can be seen as the soft tissue skeleton of your body. It provides stability and flexibility to your body structure. It envelops, penetrates, and buffers all ecosystems and organisms in the body such as nerves, muscles, organs, and blood. Fascia is a function of relationships, facilitating movement, structure, and stability. Think of it as an architectural building block of tensegrity; the pliant-elastic field of opposing forces that remains under tension and can stretch, forming sliding surfaces with just enough resistance to provide both smoothness and firmness. |
It also has other functions: stabilizing, hydrating. It metabolizes, transports fluids and nutrients. It forms a conduit: it receives and transmits stimuli. It provides cohesion and communication between different layers. The better the hydration, the more resilient the tissue. The more adherent, the more susceptible to referred pain symptoms, injuries and fractures.
There are more nerve endings emerging in fascia than in the skin, which explains why you may experience pain or wellbeing internally.
The 30 minute documentary of Dr. Jean-Claude Guimberteau gives a very good impression of living fascia in all its shapes and functions.
There are more nerve endings emerging in fascia than in the skin, which explains why you may experience pain or wellbeing internally.
The 30 minute documentary of Dr. Jean-Claude Guimberteau gives a very good impression of living fascia in all its shapes and functions.