1. When and how did you decide to become a bodyworker? In my twenties I was studying psychology at Heidelberg University, being fascinated by the way how mind, body and emotions interact. At that time, Gestalt Therapy, Primal Scream, Transactional Analysis, Reichian Therapy and Encounter Groups were very popular. However, I became more and more
Fascial Fitness and Pilates by Kerrie Murphy “Come and explore the wide matrix of the fascial web and its relationship with Pilates and movement” After 4 full days of work with Robert and Divo’s Fascial Fitness workshop, I walked away with a greater appreciation of the function and purpose of the living-sensory organ.
Fascia: A Body-wide Organ by Paolo Tozzi, MSc Ost, DO, PT Despite some current/old trends to distinguish fascial tissue in its bits and pieces, as if it is a death tissue to be dissected and named in its components (Stecco, 2014), nowadays fascia is always more intended from different profession as a body-wide structure that permeates,
Dr. Jean-Claude Guimberteau is a hand surgeon and the author of the famous film Strolling Under the Skin. The film shows for the first time the most fascinating images of the living fascia. Using a special endoscopic camera, Dr. Guimberteau showed that there is a unique architectural system in human and that the tissue continuity is
Fascia, as we all now know, is a seamless web of connective tissue that covers, connects, and holds the muscles, organs, and skeletal structures in our body. Fascia envelopes every structure in the body, each nerve, bone, muscle, organ of the body is surrounded by fascia. Fascia can be found superficially and deep within our
Body image or the conscious sense of our body, is our perception of and beliefs about our own body’s appearance. Or simply the feeling we have of our own body. Constructed by the brain from past experience and present sensations, the body image is a mental representation of our physical appearance and is a fundamental aspect
Interoception: Some Suggestions for Manual and Movement Therapies by Robert Schleip PhD. The discovery of interoceptive receptors in human skin. The established view is that touch is mediated by large-diameter, fast-conducting peripheral nerves and there are areas in the body that are more densely innervated and more cortically represented such as the finger tips and the lips.
Dr. Antonio Stecco is a graduate in Medicine and Surgery, and specialized in Physics Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Padua, Italy. His scientific and clinical interests are anatomy of the fascia corporis via dissections and histological studies, including immunohistochemical and molecular biology; study and clinical application of hyaluronic acid; and myofascial syndrome. Following
The transverse diaphragms are layers of connective tissues and fascia that run transversely through the body, these layers are perpendicular to the common myofascial planes which run longitudinally through the body. (Diaphragms comes from ancient Greek word diaphragma which means partition). Anatomically, the transverse diaphragms occurred in certain junction areas of the body. The concept
Pandiculation: An organic way to maintain myofascial health by Luiz Fernando Bertolucci, MD Pandiculation is the involuntary stretching of the soft tissues, which occurs in most animals and is associated with transitions between cyclic biological behaviours, especially the sleep-wake rhythm. Yawning is considered a special case of pandiculation. When, as often happens, yawning occurs simultaneously with
