Fascia-Nation

19/04/2022

I found a link to the FR:EIA which is the first fascial plastinate model that released in 2021. Enjoy!

Unveiling of the World’s first 3-D Human Fascia Plastinate at the BODY WORLDS Museum in Berlin

The field of fascia research has undergone remarkable expansion and growth in the last decade, which is shaping the progression of many related fields. In or...

15/04/2022

Happy Easter. I hope you're able to spend time with family and friends.

14/04/2022

This is an image of a homunculus of the brain. I don’t know if you have seen this before but it got me thinking about whether over time as a manual practitioner my hand, fingers, and thumb representation have gotten more exaggeratedly large. During this course, I was able to feel small arteries not like bigger ones where pulses can be felt but small one. I was even able to feel the vagus nerve. I sometimes take for granted that I’ve worked hard to learn these sensations and trust my hands that I will brush it off when clients say they’re amazed that I can feel what I feel. The body is so cool and amazing. I hope that if feeling these subtle movements/sensations is something you’re pursuing, I hope that you take a moment or two and reflect on how awesome an achievement that is.

14/04/2022

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13/04/2022

The more I learn different techniques, the more I learn I need to learn so much more. Learning didn’t stop once I graduated from school. There’s so much more I’ve learned since school…learn, learn, learn…did semantic satiation happen for you?

12/04/2022

The body is so cool. I mean I’m “fascia-nated” already but arteries are at a different level. No, I’m not abandoning my interest in fascia because technically arteries are still covered in it so artery work I would still consider is fascial work just with a different focus or intention. So much of manual work is intention. What you pay attention to is where change will likely happen.

11/04/2022

So I was able to do that webinar with Kier Schumaker and for the next little bit I’ll share some of my takeaways from taking their course I took recently. It was “Every Breath You Take: Manual Neurovascular Release for Freer Breathing”. Thank you Megan Stewart for being my body and for having “crappy” lungs. I hope you’re breathing better now.

I took this course because I was also curious about how to run a virtual course. All of the previous courses I’ve done have all been in person. There’s great value to being there and having someone touch what I’m touching and confirm what I’m feeling. How would this go? I liked that Kier provided pre- and post-testing to see changes that were made. Their communication skills were excellent and the structure of the course was such that I legit was able to apply the techniques to a client and get results. I’m really encouraged by this because I do think virtual offerings are the way to go. To remove geographical barriers and be able to help multiple people at the same time, that’s how to have greater impact and help more people. Let’s see what my future will have to offer to the online world.
MeganStewart

08/04/2022

Fill-osophy Friday

For the longest time, I’ve told clients that I’m not too worried about side bending in the neck because it’s not really a functional movement for every day unless you're a 90’s Valley Girl (dating myself reference). The biggest take away I took was that cervical side bending is a range that I should work on as it could be an indication that there is neurovascular protection happening and limiting someone. Now I think that side bending can be limited by some sort of tension or trauma on the neurovascular structures in the neck. The body wants to protect arteries and uses nerves to communicate to muscles to tense and protect by limiting movement. By getting the client to do a gentle controlled stretch, that protective neuromotor protection can be decreased and range of motion restored. I can’t quite touch my ear to my shoulder but it’s definitely further than it was before stretching.

07/04/2022

Throwback Thursday

If any of you watched my Facebook Live video (cringe), I mentioned that I wasn’t sure I was enough. If I knew enough, smart enough, likeable enough. These doubts still creep into my mind once in a while. What was cool about taking this online course was that Kier was sharing her experience and knowledge. It wasn’t backed by tons of research or studies but by experience, applying her knowledge and thinking through things. I’ve studied for years, almost a decade of formal schooling under my belt and that’s not including all the additional courses I’ve taken and decades of experience I’ve had. I know I have information to share and I think virtual is the way to go. What was also cool is that virtual does not constrain who can take my offerings to geography. Stay tuned World as there are things percolating in my slightly thicker than olive oil liquidy brain.

06/04/2022

I attended an online course “Every Breath You Take: Movement-Based Neurovascular Release for the Anterior Neck Live Online with Kieran Schumaker”. This course was related to the first live dissection I watched. This was really neat for me to attend not just as a student of the webinar but also cool to see the impact of virtual learning. I’ll share with you the biggest thing I learned from the course on Friday.

05/04/2022

During the slide show presentation we were shown a diagram of the movements of the spine which I wish I could share with you but it was neat to see which sections of the spine had the most movement. Cervical has the most overall in flex/ext, lateral flexion, and rotation where 90% of rotation occurs at the C1/C2. The most flex/ext occurs in the lumbar however there is very little rotation. There is little flex/ext from T5-9 which is where the heart is located. This is good for me to keep in mind when I’m looking at peoples’ active ranges of motion.

04/04/2022

During this dissection I learned a new term: Imago. According to my Google search in Entomology it means the final and fully developed adult stage of an insect and in Psychoanalysis it’s an unconscious idealized mental image of someone, especially a parent, which influences a person's behavior. Someone in the dissection chat said that it's a microcosm that mimics the whole body for example the foot and reflexology and the ear and acupuncture.