Biomimicry in the Fitness Space; how Fascial Research is Redefining Fitness for the 21st Century.
(Plus 5 take-aways for you to weave ‘new fitness’ into your practice.) by Elizabeth Andes-Bell The Evolution of Fitness Like the rest of the world, fitness is changing. So are our reasons for wanting to be fit. For this article, I spoke with three leaders in the field, Wendy LeBlanc Arbuckle (WLBA), Chris Morita Clancy…
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…
Monthly Members’ Webinar – Scars, organs and movement: what do we need to know?
Monthly Member Webinar with Fabiana Silva Practical details Date: Thursday 20th October Time: 19.00 – 20.00 UK time. Check your timezone here Presenters: Fabiana Silva Title: Scars, organs and movement: what do we need to know? The webinar will be uploaded to the Members’ Area within 72 hours of the event for free access by…
Monthly Members’ Webinar – Integrating Our Quantum Anatomy into Movement Education
Monthly Member Webinar with Elizabeth Andes-Bell and Bruce Bell Practical details Date: Thursday 22nd September Time: 19.00 – 20.00 UK time. Check your timezone here Presenters: Elizabeth Andes-Bell and Bruce Bell Title: Integrating Our Quantum Anatomy into Movement Education The webinar will be uploaded to the Members’ Area within 72 hours of the event for…
An introduction to interoception
My aim here is to introduce you to a paper on interoception, 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…
Monthly Members’ Webinar – Pelvic Organ Prolapse – the principles of a combined approach
Monthly Member Webinar with Anna Crowle and Claire Sparrow Practical details Date: Thursday 25th August Time: 19.00 – 20.00 UK time. Check your timezone here Presenters: Anna Crowle and Claire Sparrow Title: Pelvic Organ Prolapse – the principles of a combined approach The webinar will be uploaded to the Members’ Area within 72 hours of…
Self-care during and after challenging times
Following the British Fascia Symposium, I would like to share with you a summary of the final Advisory Panel, which closed the event on Sunday 22nd May. The presenters attending the panel were: Robert Schleip, Karen Kirkness, Sneha Krishna, Moushumi Kuvawala, George Roth, Owen Lewis, Ana Barretxeguren and Tracey Mellor. Questions were initially slow coming…
The sensing and “phase changing” nature of fascia in motion.
By Yasmin Lambat Pandiculation is one of nature’s homeostatic blueprints; It is the body’s way of resetting itself after a period of restful sleep or inactivity. A motion arises that follows the spiral pattern of fascial continuity, triggering a body-wide “phase change” from stiff to supple; nourishing, revitalising and restoring the vibrancy of the tissue…
Monthly Members’ Webinar – Fascia and Interoception
Monthly Member Webinar with Ana Outsubo Practical details Date: Thursday 21st July Time: 19.00 UK time. Check your timezone here Presenter: Ana Outsubo Title: Fascia and Interoception Please note that these webinars will be available to all attendees for up to three days after the event, after this time, they will be found in the Member’s…
The Power of Following the Tissue
by Jan Trewartha I’m a practising therapist, so this article is written from that point of view. This is on a topic I feel passionately about, that of following the tissue and how powerful something so simple, and so obvious can be. I had a good, albeit short, training in massage back in 1982. In…