Tahnee Taylor, South Golden Beach (2025)

07/07/2025

Something I talk about in my birth course Birth Magic is the power of using our own Pavlovian response in birth to put ourselves into a state of ease. I have several music albums and smells (for example) that are associated with very deep states of relaxation to me, with deep ease and restoration. In particular, there are albums and artists I have practiced and taught Yin Yoga to a lot that the minute I hear them I am in an altered state - I’ll share them in the comments. I know not all teachers like to use music and that’s cool, but I do find that it can help condition students to drop in, and in the beginning that can be very helpful. Routine, ritual, repetition and familiarity are very very powerful for conveying safety and there’s a reason they’re a part of most religions I’m aware of. Warm water, familiar scents (my husband’s body, our scentless laundry powder, beeswax candles, etc), touch from people you know love you, familiar sounds (say of your street or your home) - these all subconsciously tell your system that things are ok. If you’re leaving your home to birth, do your best to consider your senses and bring things that activate them in a pleasant and safe way - what sounds, touch-or-feeling things (like blankets or textiles or items of clothing or whatever), smells (SUCH a powerful and underestimated one! was sharing about hawthorn and how it smells like amniotic fluid and that reminds us of birth and death and that’s a great example!)…you get the idea. Every sense matters. I know that in all my home births this has made a huge difference and in my freebirths in particular the comfort was important to allow me to stay in my body. I could orient to safety through my senses because of these supports, and my own background in and practice of finding safety in my body. Birth Magic is available to join any time, we have calls roughly every 6 weeks and the content is available for life and you’re more than welcome to share with your partner/doula whomever. 🌸

01/07/2025

You know you feel better for being in nature. But what does this have to do with fascia?

Due to our modern lifestyle, many of us are deficient in free electrons. We spend most of our time disconnected from the Earth, wearing shoes, living in buildings, surrounded by synthetic electrical systems but not the wild, living world.

Nature, however, is full of negative ions - near trees, waterfalls, ocean waves. These ions carry extra electrons that can help replenish our body’s electron supply.

Sometimes you feel worse before you feel better - because stepping out of your jacked-up sympathetic state and into your parasympathetic state reveals how your body really feels underneath the buzz.

Electrons, carried by antioxidants, neutralise free radicals and reduce oxidative stress. The Earth’s surface itself is also a giant reservoir of free electrons thanks to lightning strikes, and standing on the Earth with bare feet lets you draw the electrons in directly via the plantar fascia.

When inflammation occurs, your body needs antioxidants to heal. Inflammation is not bad, it’s a healing process and it’s protective. But without enough electrons (from food, breath, nature, grounding), your body can’t complete the healing cycle, which can lead to chronic inflammation and illness.

So, put your bare feet on the ground. Swim in the ocean. Walk in the rain. Let nature literally recharge you.

Then practice Yin, try acupuncture, and support your system to become an efficient conductor and mover of all that goodness.

This is where fascia comes in, as a body-wide communicator, sensory organ, and electrical conductor that helps your nervous system modulate your entire inner landscape.

If you want to learn more, check out my fascia workshops.
Link in bio to register for the online sessions.

📍 Delivered via Zoom or replay with lifetime access included.

30/06/2025

This is in response to a question asked recently about the noises our bodies make when we move. 🫧 If you want to learn more about your wonderful and amazing body, the fascia workshop series is underway and yes, you can still join! The first replay is live, this week we dive into quantum biology and fascia and next week is all about movement (especially yin yoga) and fascia. Link in bio 🔗

23/06/2025

My experience of the fascial tissues is that they behave a lot like wild animals or young children - if we try to move them, or manipulate them, they tend to respond in a defensive way. however, if we are with them, practicing witness awareness, receptivity, we will notice a shift, a release, movement, light. I will often imagine myself sidling up to my body, quietly settling beside her and slowing my breath to match hers as I rest in a Yin pose. For me, learning about the science of fascia and quantum biology as well as the science of Yoga and Taoist practice has given me language and reference for the experiences I’ve mapped over a long time learning the hard way how to be in my body. 😅 My upcoming fascia workshops cover all of this - from anatomy and nerdy stuff about cells and extracellular fluids to quantum tunneling to the emotional and energetic impact of the fascial system on our bodies and how it affects our health and vitality. The first workshop goes live this Friday! All classes are recorded with lifetime access and there are practices include to ensure embodiment and to give a reference for how to share this stuff. I can’t wait to see you there!!! Link in my bio to check it out and book your spot.

22/06/2025

I probably should have said we’re not *just pulling fibres on Slide 2…

Disclaimer: All yoga and movement is good for your fascia.
Yin Yoga (especially) is gentle and you can be very intentional with how you stress the tissues.
It cultivates internal awareness and introspection (what Bo Forbes calls interroception) and moving slowly allows us to notice more subtle things.
When we move faster, we often lose touch with ourselves. In Yin, we have time to take our awareness into the body part being stressed and the energetic unfolding of the pose. We’re quiet, relaxed, we can feel the changes energetically and in the tissues. We learn to attune to the moment-to-moment shifts in the experience of being in a body.
The slow mechanical stress of Yin also allows the opportunity for the fluid within the fascia to change states, from gel to more liquid, and you can feel this shift or phase change, you may feel it as a gliding, sliding release, quite suddenly, often. The lines of stress reinforced by the asana also help to align the collagen fibres in a more coherent way, creating the opportunity for creation of bio light, bio energy, and quantum communication to occur. Note that collagen is relatively static in the body - it can take around a year or more for the collagen to change over, though no one can say for sure.

Fascia describes phenomena that we can’t explain by other way.

Fascia has cells.
Fibres.
Extracellular matrix - aka gel.

The adhesions we feel as tension or stuck bits in our body are the gel being thick - loosening it up results in feelings of wellbeing, generally (though sometimes we also cry!).

Temperature, ph, mechanical stress all affect the state of the gel. Also hormones, light, sound etc.

The glide is what you’ll feel when the gel shifts states.

You’re not ‘stretching’
We’re waiting for a phase change to happen and knowing this means that it’s not about some external aesthetic shape, but rather about what’s going on while we commit to staying for time.

I have a workshop series coming up on the anatomy, energetics and practical application of fascia science. Feel free to join us, link in my bio.

21/06/2025

If you’re curious what light, sound, infrared energy, the structured water in your body and piezoelectric currents have to do with Yoga and bodywork, you might like this workshop series. We unpack the science and anatomy of fascia, including the fascia around the organs, discuss how this maps to Chinese medicine and Yoga, talk about quantum biology and how it explains many of the benefits of Yoga, especially Yin yoga, and so much more. We start next Friday, it’s all live or via replay with lifetime access (yes, some of it is dense!) - we have nearly 60 people registered and I’d love to see some more of you get this information!! This is the future of movement and energy work - understanding how the body operates as a whole, intelligent, capable organism and relearning how to work with it for health, wellbeing and maybe even individual and collective evolution! Link in bio, I hope to see you there.

19/06/2025

If you’ve ever made jelly you’ll know that when you add gelatine to warm water, it dissolves, but pop that baby in the fridge and next morning you have a nice firm little treat to eat. A more yoga-friendly analogy might be butter or honey - warm it up and it’s flowing, cool it down and it’s stiff. The fluid in your fascia behaves in a similar way, and one of the benefits of Yin style stretching is a shift in the fluids (ground substance) in the fascia from a gel state to a sol state (thing from gelled up to solution, or liquid). The fancy name for this ‘phase change’ is thixotropy - mechanical stress on connective tissue (YIN YOGA! Massage etc) as well as things like heat/light (infrared in particular) and even sound can create this shift. This shift feels good, we feel less stiff, less pain, and there is a lot of stuff going on inside our bodies beneath the surface that makes Yin beneficial (clearing of edema from fascia into the lymph, rehydration of dehydrated tissues etc). We’ll go into this in a lot more detail in my upcoming fascia workshop series. Link in bio to join,

17/06/2025

I wrote this in the middle of the night after Hugo woke me up for the millionth time for milk (he was teething). While I am no perfect mother, I can see how much I’ve grown over the last 8 years of parenting. Exponentially, since Leo was born three years ago-he’s a catalyser, that kid. Grateful for my babies and the opportunity to be tenderised by them.

11/06/2025

Body of light sounds nice and poetic but it’s also literal. Especially if you have a practice of yoga, qigong, somatics or anything else that brings hydration and organisation to the tissues and cultivates coherence.

Recent research into biophotons (yes, your cells emit ultra weak UV light!) shows that practices like meditation, acupuncture, and I’d argue Yin Yoga, reduce energy “leakage” and help the body hold and channel light. That’s fascia doing her thing.

This is the kind of thing we’ll unpack in my upcoming fascia workshop. It’s part science, part magic (or at least a bit woo).

🧬 Early bird ends Friday 13 – use code fascia. Link in bio

PS: “body full of light” comes from my close friend and teacher from our Yoga for All days ❤️

08/06/2025

Fascia is the richest sensory organ in the body. It connects every structure from skin to bone, helping us process sensation. It’s also incredibly responsive to touch, pressure, light, and sound - and it translates all this into bioelectric signals, and probably even operates in a quantum fashion via the combination of collagen nanotubules and EZ water which creates something of a proton pump. It is this structured water that is so important to the quantum coherence of organisms, and healthy fascia maintains the integrity of the crystalline water so our bodies can operate at this highest possible level of function.
As Mae Wan-Ho says, “What one needs to imagine are proton and electron currents flowing inside the cells and over extracellular distances, delivering physical and chemical messages concerning the redox status [your current electron balance], setting in motion the requisite core chemical reactions that restore local and global energy balance (and also the peripheral chemistry that forms the basis of the highly nuanced passions and feelings that make life so exciting for organisms).”
And we’ll talk all about that (and more) in the workshop coming up in late June and early July.
Link in bio ⬆️ and use code FASCIA for early bird discount

19/05/2025

This is my “are you effing serious?” face. Rant incoming…I just saw a video of someone selling an ANATOMY training for yin yoga saying that when we ‘stretch the fascia we pull more collagen into it’ - NO WE DON’T! 🫣 When we apply STRESS to the tissues of the body by assuming a shape and holding it for a bit (in Yin this INCLUDES the fascia but you cannot really ISOLATE fascia because it is all wrapped up in your BODY with your muscles and bones and joints) your body will (because it is clever and responsive) recognise that there is (good) stress being applied to it and it will stimulate various processes some of which might be the laying down (fibroblasts usually do this) of collagenous fibres because this is an adaptive response to the stress of the ‘stretch’ - strengthening the tissues along the line of stress. There are also benefits to the hydration of the tissues plus lots of interesting things related to the conductivity and viscosity of the fluids within the extra cellular matrix of the body that includes the collagenous fibres and even potential quantum interactions that are occurring when we move our body via nanotubes formed in the collagen at a microscopic level…there’s so much cool stuff to know and talk about but we absolutely do not pull collagen into our bodies when we stretch. No no no. Just like drinking collagen doesn’t make you have more collagen in your tissues…anyway. I know. It’s the internet. But please. Paul Grilley, Bernie Clark, Jo Phee, Gil Hedley, Catherine Clinton, etc (I am tired and can’t think of everyone but feel free to tag the legends) - go give them your money (or give it to their protégés). Thank you, sermon over. 😅

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