When we train, we train fascia! Yes, that involves movement in the muscles, tendons, and ligaments, but that’s all surrounded and permeated by fascia. Fascia training redefines movement and alignment by specifically looking at bio-tensegrity. It is a total body training to improve dynamic skills including variability, unpredictability, speed, explosiveness, and flexibility. Compound movements that translate to real-life chores or activities. If this concept is new to you, it’

As we saw last week, dense and dehydrated tissue becomes known as ‘stuck fascia'. Manual release through massage therapy is possible. I have been a fascia therapist for the past 20 years now, and I can feel the complexities of fascia and it’s elasto-collagenous network that holds the body together. I can also feel when it changes in temperature, size, shape, and depth during a massage or Reiki session. Even the lightest level of touch brings awareness to that body part and ha

Fascia is a bioelectric and semi-crystalline tissue matrix. In simple terms, picture a spider-web when we say matrix, and picture cellular information being transported, just like many other systems in the body. With age, injury, pain, and emotional stress, this matrix densifies, dehydrates, and becomes known as “stuck fascia”. Breaking up densifications is absolutely possible through manual massage therapy, hot/cold exposure, osteopathy, chiropractic’s, yoga, and today’s top

Join me & my team for our discussions on Fascia all of February! Look out for these posts every Sunday until the end of the month. The topics of discussion include: Fascia and Feeling Fascia and Vibration Fascia and Touch Fascia and Fitness   If you want to get notified when these posts come out, simply subscribe to The Body Blog at www.thebodyblog.ca/subscribe . Also follow us on Instagram: @thebodyblogca @theapexcoach @reikibalance First up: FEEL. Fascia is the largest sens