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…
The Power of Following the Tissue
I am 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 retrospect, I…
The disconnect created by scars and adhesions
What do I mean by ‘the disconnect’? As I see it, there are two ways in which we disconnect, and they are not separate: the emotional and the physical. Emotional and physical disconnection can develop when a part of our body no longer feels as if it belongs to us, through injury, post-operative scarring, or…
How do you see your body?
Not that long ago many yoga classes were very focused on achieving and holding a posture; nowadays they may very well concentrate more on developing our somatic awareness as we are encouraged to unfold, unfurl and unspiral our limbs, and to be aware of the effect on the whole body of one small movement. This change…
How do you see your body?
by Jan Trewartha Not that long ago many yoga classes were very focused on achieving and holding a posture; nowadays they may very well concentrate more on developing our somatic awareness as we are encouraged to unfold, unfurl and unspiral our limbs, and to be aware of the effect on the whole body of one…
What is Fascial Unwinding and how does it work?
At the British Fascia Symposium 2014, the very first one, Leon Chaitow gave a summary of fascia-based modalities. At the very end of the list he added: “And Fascial Unwinding – it’s ‘out there’, but it works.” Minasny states[1], “In the absence of a scientific explanation or hypothesis of the mechanism of action, it [Fascial…