Coinciding with yourself and your body intelligence
The regenerative approach

Regenerative bodywork lets your body speak for itself.

During a session I take you along in the amazing inner landscape of your body. I read into the communications of your soft tissues (fascia), and work from the signals I receive from there.  I help you shift your attention to this experiential language, so that you can also sense into the internal connections. And what your attention has to do with that : ) 

The regenerative body work techniques are designed to meet yourself at the level of being present with what occurs. It's not about fixing (although shifts happen often) but about truly meeting you in the process where you are at. 

Presence, emotional allowance, mental focus, self-talk, physical perception, aka using your body as instrument in all the ways you can possibly experience life in close relation to the world around you, can be regarded as happening in one space: in consciousness. 

Your circumstance, how you use your body, habits of thinking, emotions that have not been fully 'lived through', all this leaves imprints in your tissues.
Yet, your body is for the most part ...nature! Is an intimate part of the laws that are in effect in nature. With all the amazing gifts that come with it! Somehow when the attention is shifted there, something really good tends to happen. 

When we go on a journey in this space, I take you along in observations. You will be able to read your body much clear, during and after the session. This results in better perceiving and acting upon your body signals and needs, and to appreciate its fine-tuned sensitivity. 
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Regenerative Bodywork
What is it?
Regenerative Bodywork is a type of structural bodywork, with an effect that can be problem solving, optimizing, as well as transformational. 

In the manual techniques there is a balance between giving space, and activation. 
By listening to the subtle signals of the fascial and cranial system, and by moving the tissues, it's possible to find out where attention is requested.  
In Regenerative Bodywork emotional relaxation is considered the most effective invitation for the nervous system to open up, which in its turn gives alchemical responses in your cells and tissues. 

The Regenerative Bodywork techniques coax internal communication and chemistry around the midline or back.  When the pelvis and skull can 'resonate with eachother', people tend to experience their body as a whole again. The regenerative ability kicks in.

This 30 minute documentary of Dr. Jean-Claude Guimberteau gives a good impression of living fascia in all its shapes and functions.  
What is fascia?
F​ascia is Latin for connective tissue, a very appropriate naming because it forms the whole and at the same time separates everything into parts. 

With the components of collagen, elastin and water, it forms your soft skeleton, and fills every 'in-between'. 

It envelops, penetrates, and buffers all ecosystems and organisms in the body such as nerves, muscles, organs, and blood.
​Fascia has many different functions and forms. You can see it as the 'mycelium' of your body. (Mycelium is the fungal network that helps plants and trees communicate with each other underground, metabolise nutrients and transport water.)

​Fascia also has such a communication-conducting and 'alchemical' function. It's all about relationships, chemistry and resonance. With endless relations, that facilitate movements-in-movements, the network provides support, flexibility and the possibility to be lifted against gravity. To move around, dance!  It gives you the ability to express yourself! 

Tensegrity
It's all about relationships and balance
Fascia is also: a function of relationships, that enable movement, structure, stability, stretchability. Think of it as an architectural building element. A network of relations creating pliant-elastic field of opposing forces that remain under tension and can stretch. Both locally, and as a whole. Fascia forms webs and sliding surfaces with just enough resistance to provide both firmness and smoothness. 

When adhesions occur, this is sometimes for the better: to protect or strengthen. Fascia (and that principle of tensegrity) supports as well on microlevel, as locally, as in the overall shape, symmetry and balance.  When tissues arts that are weak, stiff and 'pulling', this always has a function, or an experience hidden inside. 

Fascia, the organ of your self-perception
Fascia is also what makes you experience sensation internally and perceive your position in space, independently from vision. This called 'proprioception', a fancy word for your sense of self perception.
See it as your 'full-body' sense with which you perceive yourself and the quality of your experience in relation to your environment.

Learn about fascia in one of the courses
In case you'd like to find out more fascia, how it works anatomically,  and experience for yourself how this knowledge enhances relationship quality, in all its meanings, be welcome to join one of the events.