Fascia fascia fascia! 50 day blog - day 30

As most if not all of you already know, I love fascia. It's the 'thing of the moment' in many ways and we are seeing it more and more being discussed in the fitness world and articles coming out telling us what to do which your fascia, how to look after it and so on. 

I welcome this rise in awareness on the one hand, and there are some great articles written in layman's language which help to give a picture to fascia and highlight its importance in our health. On the other hand I have a sneaky suspicion that 'fascia' will become a fad word in some fields (much as 'core' was and 'functional' currently is), and be used where not necessarily relevant or understood, or just to sell the latest product or fitness service. 

I make no claims to be an expert in fascia - for the simple reason that this is a relatively new science (although fascia release in some sense has been around since the beginning of the last century, via Ida Rolf and her Rolfing work). 

But what I can tell you is that I have a passion for understanding fascia beyond anything that I have ever studied previously. I discovered fascia, quite by accident, about 5 years ago, when I was doing my pilates training. After a long day of learning in the studio, I was lying in my hotel room, pressing a few places on my body that felt a bit tight. Before I knew it I was following some kind of tissue trail with my fingers that was leading me around my legs and hips and feet and it felt great. Then everything felt loose and mobile and I wondered what the heck I had done. I stood up and my alignment was completely different! The changes were noticed the next day and when I explained what I'd done, it was explained to me that I had unknowingly fascia released myself! And so the fascia passionista was born!  

For me it was the missing link which brought everything together. In my mind fascia links mind and body, art and science, chemistry, biology and physics, action and stillness, emotions and logic, past and present. You get the picture! Its big news for me! But the other things that made sense to me with fascia was its language. In some sense I can't explain this, as it just made sense to me intuitively. But I could see and feel what fascia was saying to me. I instinctively knew in my body where my fascia needed released or nurtured, and I could understand fascia messages in my clients. 

I have lapped up everything that I can learn about fascia since. And I am so lucky to be studying a course at the moment which is being led by one of the world's leading Fascia-nistas! (I am trying not to be a groupie!)

So while I absolutely claim no expertise and am well aware that there is SO much more to be learnt about this wonderful system, I'd really like to share some of my fasci(a)nations with fascia with you so that hopefully you can appreciate just how wonderful your system is and how wonderful the body is. I guess my intention is to every so often plonk fascia posts into this blog (which will most definitely continue after the big 50th day!)... 

So for today I shall sign off, but from tomorrow I welcome to my world of fascia!!! (Don't worry there will be other posts of my usual randomness too!!)

So, til tomorrow...

CT :-) x


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