PRACTICAL DETAILS
Date: Sunday 25th January 2026 - Live session now over. Replay will be available from 27th January.
Time: Session over
Venue: Online via replay on 27th January
Title: The Fascia Revolution: Jean Claude Guimberteau & John Sharkey reveal the next chapter- a landmark exploration of the living fascial matrix with two of the world’s leading fascia thinkers.
With: Surgeon Dr Jean Claude Guimberteau and Clinical Anatomist John Sharkey
Note: The replay will be available to all attendees until Sunday, 22nd March 2026. After this date, the recording will not be added to the Members’ Area, but will be included in our On Demand video collection at a higher fee — with an exclusive discount for Members.
SUMMARY
The Fascia Hub is proud to present a unique cinematic and scientific journey into the true architecture of fascia.
Join two of the most influential voices in modern fascia science - Dr Jean-Claude Guimberteau and Clinical Anatomist John Sharkey - for a ground-breaking evening that will reshape how you understand the human body.
The session begins with a special screening of Dr Guimberteau’s visually stunning film Homofasciaticus, revealing the dynamic, shimmering, ever-changing internal world that textbooks have never shown.
Following the film, Jean Claude and John each present a powerful, original slide session, offering two distinct but deeply complementary views of fascia as a living, dynamic, non-layered continuum.
Expect:
- Never-before-shared insights from fresh dissections
- Fascia as process, not structure
- Tensegrity in real time
- Interoception, polyvagal integration, and embodied consciousness
- New interpretations of Dr Guimberteau’s micro-endoscopic footage
- Clinical implications for therapists, surgeons, movement teachers, and everyone working with human form
This not to be missed evening culminates in a live dialogue between Guimberteau and Sharkey representing a rare meeting of two fascia pioneers with your chance to put questions to these two recognised experts.
The conversation promises to set a new foundation for fascia science, embryology, anatomy, perception, and the deep coherence of living form.
If fascia matters to you, even a little, this is the event you should not miss in 2026.
Relevant reading:
- New Perspectives on the Organization of Living Tissue and the Ongoing Connective Tissue/Fascia Nomenclature Debate, as Revealed by Intra-Tissue Endoscopy That Provides Real-Time Images During Surgical Procedures (Guimberteau, Sawaya, Armstrong)
- Noble, Denis. “The role of stochasticity in biological communication processes.” Prog. Biophys. Mol. Biol. 162 (2021): 122-128.
- Noble, Denis. “Harnessing stochasticity: How do organisms make choices?” Chaos. 2018, 28(10):106309.
Note: The replay will be available to all attendees until Sunday, 22nd March 2026. After this date, the recording will not be added to the Members’ Area, but will be included in our On Demand video collection at a higher fee — with an exclusive discount for Members.
Join The Fascia Hub membership today and enjoy £7 off your event ticket while getting access to our extensive information and video resource. Minimum commitment three months @ £15/per month.
PRESENTERS
Dr Jean Claude Guimberteau is a Plastic and Hand surgeon, and co-founder and scientific director of the Institut Aquitain de la Main in 1980. He is a member of the French Hand Society (GEM), past President 2012 of the French Plastic and reconstructive surgery society (SOFCPRE), and a member of the French Academy of Surgery.
Past general secretary of the FESUM (2007-2011) (Fédération des services Urgences Mains -Hand trauma society), he has been a member of the Health Service High Authority 2007-2010.
He was trained in the Hand and Plastic Department of the Bordeaux University (Dr AJM. Goumain and Pr J. Baudet). During this surgical training, he was one of the pioneers in microsurgery and transplantations. He spent 6 months (1976) as fellow with Pr J.M. Converse in New York (USA) and Pr R. Millard in Miami (USA). He introduced innovative concepts in hand anatomy, physiology and secondary flexor tendon repair. He has been supported many years by Pr Cl Verdan and Pr H.E. Kleinert.
Dr Guimberteau is a pioneer in endoscopy exploration of the tissular organization of the human body. Director and Producer of many videos on living matter, he has developed a new concept on living tissues and proposed a new ontology for human interior architectures.
Articles LATEST REFERENCES
Guimberteau JC : Faire peau neuve. Annales de chirurgie plastique esthetique
Vol 55/4 pp 255-266
Guimberteau JC : Heureux qui comme Ulysse avait une belle idée ou Récit du Génial Inventeur Chirurgien (GIC) dans le Dédale.: Annales de chirurgie plastique esthétique
Guimberteau JC, Sentucq-Rigall J, Panconi B, Boileau R, Mouton P, Bakhach J: [Introduction to the knowledge of subcutaneous sliding system in humans]. Ann Chir Plast Esthet; 2005 Feb;50(1):19-34
Guimberteau JC, Delage JP, McGrouther DA, Wong JK: The microvacuolar system: how connective tissue sliding works. J Hand Surg Eur Vol; 2010 Oct;35(8):614-22
Guimberteau JC, Delage JP, Wong J: The role and mechanical behavior of the connective tissue in tendon sliding. Chir Main; 2010 Jun;29(3):155-66
Guimberteau JC, Delage JP, Wong J: New views about the skin. Ann Chir Plast Esthet; 2010 Aug;55(4):255-66
Guimberteau JC, Delage JP, Sawaya E : The architectural behaviour of the skin Springler Measuring the Skin .
Events
2012 : President of the French Plastic surgery society
2013-14-15 Conferences Tour "Strolling under the skin" www.endovivo.com/conf
2015 Key-speaker International Fascia research congress. Washington.
Conférence Tokyo Medical University
2016 Conference Moscow University
Conference Dundee University (UK) Conference Bruxelles Erasmus University.
Buenos Aires, Milan, Paris, Barcelona
Books
- Strolling under the skin, J.C. GUIMBERTEAU, Livre 44 p. Elsevier, france.elsevier.com ISBN 2-84299-649-6, 2004. In French and English
- New ideas in hand flexor tendon surgery. The sliding system, vascularized island tendons transfers in collaboration with Pr Cl Verdan and Pr H. Kleinert, 210 pages ISBN 2-84023-268-5, www.livres-medicaux.com, 2001. In English
- Tendon surgery of the Hand with Jin Bo Tang, Peter C.Amadio, James Chang.
Elsevier Saunders .2012. ISBN 978-1-4377-2230-7 in English
- Entrée en matière vivante. Annale chirurgie plastique esthétique. Vol 57. 2012. In French. Elsevier-Masson. ISSN 0294-1260
- Architectures of Human Living Fascia The extracellular matrix and cells revealed through endoscopy. Handspring Publishing. ISBN13:978-1-909141-11-7. 256 pages in English.
- Architecture du corps humain vivant.Le monde extracellulaire,les cellules et le fascia révélés par l’ endoscopie intratissulaire. Editions Sully.
ISBN : 978-2-35432-200-7. 223 p. French.
Films
- Journey to the tendon and its satellite sheaths: 34'
Rewards:- Grand Prix Leonardo, International Film Video festival, Parma, Italy
- Prix Spécial Anatomy, International Videomedical Festival, Amiens, 1996, ADF Video Productions.
- Strolling under the skin : 26', 2004 ADF Video Productions
- Skin Excursion 2009 28’ EndovivoProductions
Grand prix du Président SOFCPRE 2009
- Muscle Attitudes 2010. 22’ EndovivoProductions
- Architectures d’intérieur 2010. 25’ EndovivoProductions
- Peau,cicatrices et raideur 2011 16’ EndovivoProductions
apparent microfibrillaire et une efficience mécanique totale.
- Destination tendon 2013 24’ EndovivoProductions
- Des cellules, des fibres et du corps humain vivant 2016 33’ EndovivoProductions
- Homofasciaticus 2018 39’ EndovivoProductions
- Anatomical adventures on Fibrillar Island 2022 24’.EndovivoProductions
John Sharkey is an international educator, author and authority in the areas of Clinical Anatomy, Fascia Science, human movement and the manual treatment of chronic pain.
John is a graduate of the University of Dundee, University of Liverpool and University of Chester. He completed undergraduate and post-graduate studies in the areas of exercise physiology, clinical anatomy and holds post-graduate qualifications in education.
John's latest book ‘Understanding Fascia, Tensegrity and Myofascial Trigger Points’ has become one of Human Kinetics' most popular titles, reflecting the growing interest in topics related to fascia science.
John provides unique, full-body dissection courses across the globe and is a popular conference Keynote speaker. John will be chairing a round table discussion on fascia at the upcoming International Fascia Research Congress, in New Orleans, as well as providing a workshop with his colleague Dr Andrzej Pilat of Myofascial induction and a special dissection course with Dr Carla Stecco, Gil Hedley and Gabriel Venne.
Note: The replay will be available to all attendees until Sunday, 22nd March 2026. After this date, the recording will not be added to the Members’ Area, but will be included in our On Demand video collection at a higher fee — with an exclusive discount for Members.
Join The Fascia Hub membership today and enjoy £7 off your event ticket while getting access to our extensive information and video resource. Minimum commitment three months @ £15/per month.