I am so glad I braved weekend summer traffic to Portland to see the latest iteration of Gil Hedley’s somanautic dives. Start here to get a sense of Gil: – but there are many YouTube videos, and the full catalogue of his work and schedule is at: www.gilhedley.com Gil is currently on a nationwide tour… Read more
A follower on Facebook writes in with this question: I understand from the Anatomy Trains book that fascia has a lot of fluid in it. What I can not figure out is what type of fluid this is, where it coms from and where it is drained out? I wonder if the fluid in the… Read more
The final installment in our short video series of fascial training tips with Tom Myers! We’re beginning to understand how important healthy fascia is to a healthy body, but how can we train our fascia to keep it hydrated and functioning well? Tom gives you some answers in this four-part series. In this fourth tip,… Read more
The sheets of the endoplasmic reticulum, (and, I suspect, the same will be true for the ‘sheets’ of the Golgi apparatus) turns out to be made of vibrating and adaptable tubes. Just like our nervous system, circulatory system, and fascial fibrous body – all tubular. (See Ch 1 of Anatomy Trains, 3rd edition.) Check out… Read more
From Lauri Nemetz and Tom Myers, during Fascial Dissection labs, January 2016 : Lauri: “Traveling always gives an interesting perspective and seeing clouds, rivers, mountains, etc. echoes what we see underneath the surface of the body in lab. We have some discernible structures, and even cloud “layers” are named, but the exact beginnings and ends… Read more
I am so over the word ‘fascia’. I have touted it for 40 years – I was even called the ‘Father of Fascia’ the other day in New York (it was meant kindly, but…) — now that ‘fascia’ has become a buzzword and is being used for everything and anything, I am pulling back from… Read more
