How Fascia Redefines Our Understanding of Acupuncture Meridians
The implications of this continuity of tissue were that the separately named muscle-to-tendon, bony periosteum, ligament and joint capsule together formed one continuous architecture. It was thickened, vascularised, innervated and invested with different qualities at different points of connection and disconnection. Nevertheless, the tissue in, aro
... See moreJoanne Avison • Yoga: Fascia, Anatomy and Movement: Fascia, Form and Functional Movement
Emotions are literally stored in your body—but not always in a physical sense. Physically, our bodies mechanically react to certain emotional patterns, locking us into contraction during negative emotions. For example, a depressed individual might subconsciously curve their torso, resulting in that emotional state being “stored” in the muscles and tissues responsible for the postural contraction. But it goes deeper than that. The human body has a measurable electromagnetic field, and our emotions function as magnetic fields within this system. Because of fascia’s body-wide connection and semiconductive properties, it responds to these magnetic fields. This is why fascia not only facilitates communication but can also store information. I can’t count how many times I’ve encountered patients in deep emotional states simply due to a session of myofascial release. This is the reason why. Understand that the mind-body connection is a two-way street. The mind and body affect each other through your electromagnetic field. Fix one, and you’ll fix the other.
instagram.comThis is an important factor in understanding fascia. We have been mesmerised by iconic images of clean red muscles attaching to defined bones, just as our predecessors were seduced by Christian iconographic symbols. On every level, we are now invited to reconsider our perspective to one that is more inclusive of the context.
Joanne Avison • Yoga: Fascia, Anatomy and Movement: Fascia, Form and Functional Movement
It is argued here that pandiculation might preserve the integrative role of the myofascial system by (a) developing and maintaining appropriate physiological fascial interconnections and (b) modulating the pre-stress state of the myofascial system by regularly activating the tonic musculature.”9 Is this perhaps Nature’s way of maintaining the funct
... See moreJoanne Avison • Yoga: Fascia, Anatomy and Movement: Fascia, Form and Functional Movement
The discovery that the fascia is among the largest sensory organs of the body17 (Ch. 9)
Joanne Avison • Yoga: Fascia, Anatomy and Movement: Fascia, Form and Functional Movement
with Tom Myers, in Structural Integration and Anatomy Trains, had not prepared me for seeing muscles so intimately interwoven and continuous in longitudinal, lateral and layered relationships with all our parts and forms. They are anything but discrete units, even in cadavers. They are completely connected to each other and surrounded. Not even a s
... See more