Functional Anatomy

30/07/2025

⭐️⭐️Who’s signed up to my newsletter then?⭐️⭐️

I shared some exciting news via my newsletter yesterday - so If you’re signed up, I am sure you have seen it already.. if not here’s a little taster of what I have got going on.

📆 4-5 Oct Fascia in Movement, Part One in Dorset with Shore Pilates Westbourne

📆 11-12 Oct Fascia in Movement, Part Two in Norfolk with Brenda Louw

📆 10 Oct Introduction to Bowen Neural Integration Technique in Norfolk with Brenda Louw

And that’s not all…. I have 4 tentative dates for Anatomy on Cadavers, that's right 4! All London, October and November.

See my website for further info – link in comments!

08/05/2025

The human dissection course on the Shoulder and Neck that I created last year, is now being rolled out on my Mighty Community Site, Touch Move Heal, and is included in the membership fee of just £12.50 a month.

It features around seven hours of incredible dissection content, looking at movement, restriction, conjoined structures and the joints of the shoulder. It will enhance your understanding of this area, no matter what level of therapist you are.

It's not a traditional anatomical approach but instead aims to show you what isn't featured in the books or videos and will help you visualise how your clients move.

Membership is just £12.50 a month and includes Bowen workshops dozens of webinars as well as lots of other dissection images and videos, added to regularly.

Sign up now and get a FREE seven day trial.

Touch Move Heal is a one stop shop for anyone who is involved in the practice of Manual or Movement Therapy in any form. If for example you're a massage therapist, Bowen therapist, chiropractor, Osteopath, Rolfer, Physiotherapist/Physical Therapist or work with your hands to help people move or redu...

21/03/2025

The advantage of not having to dissect in a specific way allows us to see the body in ways that almost defy what traditional anatomy suggests and gives us the opportunity to see function from a different angle.

I've created a new section looking at the upper body connections and how the separation of upper limbs shows functions we could never have thought about.

Check it out!

https://touch-move-heal.mn.co/spaces/13352345?utm_source=manual

20/02/2025

My upcoming workshop, Fascia in Movement is coming up! I had a chat to my host Brenda about what we're going to be covering. Have a listen and come along!

https://www.brendalouw.co.uk/anatomy-workshop.html

19/02/2025

I've added a new section in the Transformational Anatomy space, to look at some of the footage I have of the lungs being inflated. Gil Hedley always used to do this with a turkey baster but the power behind an Ambi-bag gives better inflation without the risk of any returning air!

The thing that always surprises people is just how much space the lungs occupy in the thorax, together with the close relationship the heart has with both the lungs and the diaphragm, which shares a tendonous connection with the fibrous pericardium of the heart.

Some of the videos in this section will also look at the lungs inflating whilst still inside the thoracic space, so look out for those as well as the hours of dissection videos, Bowen content and all the webinars from 2024, as well as a community of like minded people. All for just £12.95 per month

Come and have a look and enjoy a free trial.

https://touch-move-heal.mn.co/share/Wx-ihB5U3nLxvQCG?utm_source=manual

12/02/2025

The thickened tissue at the base of the back, the thoracolumbar fascia, has long been a source of fascination for me. After thirty years of hands on treatment, I'm convinced that this tissue is the source of nearly all the back pain I have ever witnessed or treated.

Today it's the starting point for assessment, measurement and treatment and given its enormous range of muscular and bony attachments, it's not hard to understand why. As to whether we can change it or not, that's another story, but it's certainly an area to discuss more.

Check out my recent thoughts on this and my plans to take a deep dive into a greater understanding of this tissue.

https://touch-move-heal.mn.co/plans/1503897?bundle_token=2be487214fcc1b98377fd85e1a751af1&utm_source=manual

06/02/2025

One of my favourite elements to play with during dissection, is my hand held DinoScope microscope. It's an incredible tool that allows us to see up close the relationships between fascia, muscle blood vessels and observe the movement of fluid around all of them.

I've posted a very cool video in the free members section of Touch Move Heal, so check it out. Link below.

23/01/2025

An 18 minute video now available in the Transformational Anatomy Membership section of my Mighty Network Community formed part of an introduction to a scar tissue dissection class. Working on a sectioned pelvis with Hannah Poulton, scar specialist Physiotherapist we first palpate the specimen which has clearly undergone extensive surgeries in her life. Later videos show just the extent of the scarring within the hip and pelvis, but the aim here is to show the depth of the tissues we work on.

The video shows my scalpel dropping through the skin and into the superficial, adipose layer, and examining the fibrous and connected nature of this incredible tissue. Using my microscope and showing side by side images, we are able to precisely see how tissues around the buttock are held firmly in place by the network of fascia running through and descending down towards the muscle.

Eventually the dissection goes deep enough to reveal the first glimpse of muscle and deep fascia, but for the moment, this is a chance for us to truly understand in a way you may never have seen, the complexity of the superficial tissues that surround every aspect of our form and which dictate more feeling and behaviour than we can ever be aware of.

Membership of just £12.50 per month gives you access to dozens of dissection videos, webinars, workshops and regularly updated content.
https://touch-move-heal.mn.co/share/Wx-ihB5U3nLxvQCG?utm_source=manual

21/01/2025

JULIAN BAKER I'm very excited to be hosting my most favourite anatomy teacher of all time for a weekend workshop in March 2025. I attended a dissection with Julian in 2019, and it completely...