FasciaCoreSoftening
Fascia Core Softening
We use rollers and balls to soften and hydrate the fascia, rolling out stiffness and aches from our bodies and bringing in flexibility and calm. The stress reflex is calmed, as is your nervous system. You will start to feel better and feel better.
Fascia! It seems as if suddenly everyone is talking about it, the new hype in the world of movement. And thank goodness! Because once you understand what it is and how you will feel when you move from your fascia, and how to maintain it, everything becomes easier and you feel lighter.
When I first lay on one of those rollers years ago, I was amazed at how I felt after rolling out my body. Suddenly, I could make movements that I couldn't do before or that took me a lot of effort. And now it was easy, and my body was a lot more flexible! Fascia is magical stuff, and I wanted to know more about it. It's been about 12 years now, and that “wanting to know more” has not stopped.
What it is:
Fascia is a bound fluid “system”, call it a super fine-meshed network that runs through our entire body, really everywhere, around every cell in your body. So it surrounds all the cells in our body; in your skin, muscles, ligaments, tendons, bones, organs, blood vessels, lymph, eyes, brain, etc.
Our fascia ensures that everything in our body is connected and communicates with everything else. It shapes our body and enables us to stand upright and move. Fascia is the library of your life; everything you have experienced is stored in your fascia, such as your thinking wrinkles and your smile lines! Fascia tells you how you are doing, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
It is the matrix of our body, the liquid crystal matrix, your “interface”, with apps like those you know from your smartphone. It works a bit like that too: touch triggers all kinds of things, and quickly. Mind you, this is just a handy way of explaining it, because you are not a device, of course!
Fascia transmits information throughout your body at lightning speed, faster than your brain and nervous system. For example, it prevents you from slipping on that uneven tile, or pulls your child away in time from the motorist who drives through the zebra crossing. Your brain cannot think that fast, but your body has already done it, thanks to your fascia!
Well-functioning fascia is essential for the body, life and movement.
For anyone trained in biomechanics, it takes some getting used to. We are not biomechanical; we do not move through the “leverage” of our limbs, we move through the rippling, wave-like movements of our fascia.
Biomechanics dates back to a time when research could only be conducted on dead (male) bodies, some 400 years ago, and at that time machines were state of the art, which is where the comparisons between machines and humans come from, to put it bluntly. But there is nothing mechanical about our bodies! Fortunately, we have gained more knowledge in recent decades. For example, body-sized ultrasound devices now allow us to see in a living body that we move very differently than biomechanically: instead of leverage, we move through wave movements of the fascia matrix, through ripples of force and energy throughout your entire body. When something moves, everything in your body moves, to a greater or lesser extent. Our brains know nothing about muscles; your body and brain know about movement.
This is a very brief explanation to give you an idea and to make it clear that there is really nothing mechanical about our bodies, and nothing is straight. Because all your organs are embedded in and veined with fascia, the condition of our fascia affects how they can function and thus pretty much all the processes in our body and therefore our lives; digestion, hormones, sleep, stress, depression, mild inflammations that you notice little or nothing of but do notice the consequences, emotions such as anxiety and restlessness, etc.
The good news is that maintaining your fascia is fairly simple, such as rolling it out, which we will be doing on 16 November. It has an immediate effect on how you feel and the flexibility of your body.
Training differently also has a significant effect, which I will discuss next time. First, come and roll out your body, release stress and find peace. The corners of your mouth will automatically turn upwards!
What Core Softening is:
A simple self-care system to restore the flexibility and fluidity of your fascia and calm the stress reflex and nervous system so that you can feel properly again and start feeling better.
Who it is for:
Anyone with a body 😉
For anyone who exercises a lot or very little; sedentary or athletic.
People who suffer from stress and find it difficult to relax.
People who have had an injury or surgery. It often happens that even after an injury has healed, you still experience discomfort. Often, there is scar tissue around the area in the fascia that keeps it stiff and painful, preventing the energy of movement from flowing through your body like dominoes, which causes discomfort.
The same applies after surgery. There may be little or no visible damage to the skin, but deeper in the body, movement is restricted by scar tissue. Your fascia developed this tissue to protect you from the trauma of the surgery or injury, but over time it mainly gets in the way. Think, for example, of the deeper layers in the abdomen that remain tight after a caesarean section. Even after many years, this can be effectively “resolved”.
