Regenerative Bodywork
Coinciding with yourself and your body intelligence
Regenerative bodywork lets your body speak for itself.

Presence, emotional allowance, mental focus, self-talk, physical perception, using your body as instrument in all the ways you can possibly experience life; in regenerative embodiment this is regarded as happening in one space. In consciousness. 

Your circumstance, history, frame of reference, habits of thinking, emotions that have not been fully 'lived through', all this leaves imprints in your body. 

Yet, your body is are also ...nature. Part of the laws that are in effect in nature. With all the gifts that come with it.

The regenerative body work techniques are designed to meet yourself and another at the level of being present with what occurs. Getting discernment through experience and find a translation between body intelligence and spoken language. 

When tuning together to the unique soft tissue architecture and its subtle communications of liquids, something miraculous and yet so recognisable simple tends to happen. 

Focus in manual work
The regenerative approach
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. 

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.  

The techniques coax internal communication and chemistry, activating the nerve branches around the spine, skull and pelvis, that travel from your body core towards the periphery.
At the same time this invites the membranes around cranial sacral system to move more freely.

Did you know you have a well inside your brain, creating a mini-brain-orgasm a few times a minute? With a ripple effect of subtle ebb and flow of liquids, as a slow breath, throughout the whole body.

The cranio system embeds the nervous system, and that in its turn informs the fascia, but also the other way around. All structures in the body can be seen as continuities of eachother. 
Skull and pelvis can be seen as two sides of the same spectrum. They anatomically mirror each other.

When the pelvis and skull can 'resonate with eachother', people tend to experience their body as a whole again. The self-healing ability kicks in. 

The more refined (complex) the internal relationships, the more vitality and sensation. The more resilience. 
Which brings us to the topic and core qualities of fascia. 

This 30 minute documentary of Dr. Jean-Claude Guimberteau gives a very good impression of living fascia in all its shapes and functions.  
What is fascia?
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 movements-in-movements, the network provides support, flexibility and the possibility to be lifted against gravity. To move around, dance, express yourself
​Fascia is Latin for connective tissue, also an appropriate naming: 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.  It envelops, penetrates, and buffers all ecosystems and organisms in the body such as nerves, muscles, organs, and blood.

Tensegrity
It's all about relationships and balance
Fascia is also: a function of relationships, facilitating movement, structure, stability, stretchability. Think of it as an architectural building element. A network of tensegrity; which means the pliant-elastic field of opposing forces that remain under tension and can stretch. Fascia forms webs and 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. 

Local soft tissue work 
When adhesions occur, this is sometimes for the better: to protect or strengthen. It may support tensegrity in the overall shape, symmetry for the parts that are weak, stiff and 'pulling'. That is why this approach is about tuning in to what the body itself indicates is needed. 
Perhaps you recognise that while your own body is being worked on, your body sometimes 'craves' something, has a kind of thirst. Your body knows!

The most refined and moist form of connective tissue, is called perifascia. You can see it in the video above (min 16.25 - 16.54). These thin tissue threads can literally change shape. The network always seeks the best shape to support the whole.

When approached with understanding of its function and unique architecture per location, these small tissue threads are pliable. And very sensitivity to sound and thoughts! 

The tissues store experiences; the pleasant and the touching ones, as well as recurring thinking habits, trauma. As miraculously as the past leaves traces in the body, glimpses of future seem present there as well. 

Fascia, the organ of your self-perception
This is big: 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 
The regenerative Embodiment Academy offers an introduction and a 3-part training to experience what fascia is, why it matters, and how it improves relationship quality.

For everyone who likes to put body language on the map in daily and professional life, and for body workers or therapists who want to further expand their skills.