Jan is the founder and director of the British Fascia Symposium and The Fascia Hub. She has been in healthcare since 1979, originally training as a State Registered Nurse in the Queen Alexandra Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC), working with patients on the wards and in the operating theatre; a superb if non-deliberate foundation for her future career as a specialist in scars and adhesions.
In 1988 she was taught by a blind massage therapist to really ‘feel’ the body, leading to a lifetime passion for body work. Jan was a massage volunteer at the Auckland Commonwealth Games where she learned from professionals from all modalities. Her work now is the culmination of many years of training and experience in different disciplines. Through her school, Body in Harmony Training, Jan runs a variety of light touch therapy courses, including Sharon Wheeler’s ScarWork, for which she was the first accredited tutor in the UK.
To learn more about Jan please visit her website: https://www.bodyinharmony.org.uk/.
Jan is also the co-editor and lead author of the book Scars, Adhesions and the Biotensegral Body, published by Handspring Publishing in May 2020.
Do not forget the hidden scars
by Jan Trewartha When we think of scarring, we tend to visualise a linear or other scar, caused by surgery or injury; normally visible, something we can focus on and work with in order to minimise its impact on local and even body-wide tissues, organs and systems. However, scars may be the result of other…
A new approach to working with Pelvic Organ Prolapse
POP – Pelvic Organ Prolapse – “….is defined as the symptomatic descent of female pelvic organs and is often described as when the organs in the pelvis slip down from their normal position and bulge into the vagina”.[1] Anna Crowle, an experienced physiotherapist, also trained in osteopathic, clinical massage and advanced myofascial methods, is lead…
Working with Caesarean Scars
As a scar specialist, I work with many women with a Caesarean scar (CS); sometimes they have three or even four scars, one on top of the other, each time the surgeon possibly having cleared out adhesions and each time possibly more adhesions having formed. This is complex and sensitive work as we unravel…
Working with Caesarean scars
by Jan Trewartha As a scar specialist, I work with many women with a Caesarean scar (CS); sometimes they have three or even four scars, one on top of the other, each time the surgeon possibly having cleared out adhesions and each time possibly more adhesions having formed. This is complex and sensitive work as…
Interoception and Self-Care
During the pandemic, Carol M. Davis presented a webinar on ‘Fascia, Interoception and Self-Care; a Pandemic/Holiday Imperative’. Hugely needed at the time, this talk is just as relevant today and every day; as therapists and movement teachers we need to care for ourselves, not only for our own health but in order to be fit…
An introduction to interoception
My aim here is to introduce you to a paper on iInteroception, written by Robert Schleip in 2014, to give you a broad summary of interoception, and how the therapist will benefit the client from understanding this sense. Before we look at the research, we need a definition of interoception: “Interoception refers to the representation…