"The things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done." - R. Buckminster Fuller
Karen Gabler
One common pattern may come from our chair culture where the Deep Front Line (DFL) becomes unused and deactivated, in addition to gravity and any other injuries or traumas that impact a person's facial web. I am feeling quite consistently under my hands the facsia is wound down and in collapsing the DFL.
It seems to me that the inactivation of the DFL is a key contributor to this pattern. So I work to activate and lift the DFL up and out of this pattern. Instead of doing the DFL last I began to work with it first, not in as deep a way as KMI does, but in a more teaching/educational way for the client.
As I do this I tell the client what I am dong with the tissue. I begin at the medial arch - widen the foot first and lift the DFL all the way up to the groin. At the same time that I am showing the tissue how it feels to be lifted up in the DFL, I unwrap and widen the pelvis area so the SFL and Lateral Lines also get touched, then I show how the SBL goes down the back.
I break the body into segments as I teach this: lifting up the DFL from foot-groin, lift and widen SFL and LL across and on the side of the leg from ITB to foot, down the SBL from ischial tuberosity to heel. Then I move from the groin to the top of the psoas, unwrap to the side to QL, widen the back tissue from spine out and down the SBL. Then up the ribs and sternum, widening collar bone and pecs, loosen the scapula from the ribs, down the SBL in the torso. Then up to the neck and lift and unwrap the neck. One side from foot to neck at a time. After one side is done there is more length, width and space on that side and the client feels it. I do the other side teaching with words as tissue is guided in the same way.
Upon standing, the client feels the lift in the DFL/SFL and the unwinding of the LL, and the downward shift of the SBL. The client can feel more easily the Ground Reaction Force coming up through the fascia. This can be done as a way to introduce fascial web work in the first, middle or last for it is the integration of most of the lines. The spiral line can be worked in later sessions. Clients feel so clearly the lift in their fascial web. I think it is because it integrates several lines at once.
K. M. Gabler - Bodyworker and Massage Therapist
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Structural / Somatics
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