AT Masterclass: The Boundless Body – Interstitium 2.0 Live Online with Dr Neil Theise – REGISTRATION CLOSED

Thank you for your interest! Registration is now closed. Please email info@anatomytrains.com with any questions.

We are thrilled to bring to you Anatomy Trains 12 Days of Christmas Masterclass Series, showcasing world renowned thought leaders in fascia, anatomy, & body-minded movement. With this amazing lineup, it will be hard to pick just one to attend!

Each two hour Masterclass will be presented live over zoom – we encourage you to join us live! We will have exclusive contests for those who attend live, with fun prizes awarded to the winners. However if you cannot attend live, you can relax in the knowledge that each webinar will be recorded and the recording will be made available for you to enjoy for 45 days.

Please note: To ensure a high quality student experience, registration will close January 4th at 8PM EST

Webinar description:

In part 1 of his session, Dr. Theise will describe his team’s specifications of novel anatomy of the interstitial spaces (“interstitium”) within fibroconnective tissues (“fascia” and others).  While it is long established that fibrous “reticular” networks are continuous throughout the body, his group’s initial observations, which “went viral” in 2017, did not address the question of whether these spaces were also continuous through the body or segregated into tissue or organ specific units.  His most recent work (version 2.0), soon to be published, confirms such bodywide continuity of these spaces and suggests that it indeed comprises an organ-size, body-wide communication network.  In part 2 of his session, Dr. Theise will use complexity theory to further explore the diverse natures of our bodies, going beyond the gross or microscopic levels to explore the deeper nature(s) of the “boundless body.”

Webinar schedule:

Tuesday, January 5th: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, US

Neil Theise, MD is a physician-scientist at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City. His clinical work focuses on diagnostic liver pathology and he is an international thought leader in concepts of human liver disease, regeneration, and healing. His anatomic studies helped to define liver stem cells that led directly to his pioneering work in the field of adult stem cell plasticity. Most recently, his anatomic studies have led to the specification of novel anatomy for the interstitial spaces (“interstitium”) of fibroconnective tissues (“fascia” and others) pointing to them being an organ-size communication network comprising 20% of the volume of the human body.  These findings have protean implications for health and disease as well as implications for cross-cultural dialogues for global healing modalities.   As a complexity theorist and philosopher, he explores the nature of bodies as self-organizing systems which are embedded in a self-organizing universe.  These concepts give rise to alternate models of the body which differ from standard “Western” biology and can inform science-spirituality dialogue and a deeper understanding of the relationship between consciousness and the universe.