Category: Yoga

The Facial Web is connected most directly with the nervous system.  It also impacts the Deep Visceral Body (where things are stored), the Emotional Body, and the Pain Modulation Pathways.  Secondarily, it impacts the other bodies (immune system, mental body, etc.)

– Bo Forbes, Psy.D., E-RYT500

Learning something new everyday… More note-taking at a workshop given by Bo Forbes, knowledge-based “erudite” instructor spoken highly by Judith – no wonder she’s won Judith’s endorsement:

• The Facial Web is sentient and intelligent.
•  It connects every cell in the body.
•  Connective tissue includes the blood and blood cells (really?)
• It has 10 times more never endings than muscle and so is connected to the nervous system. (…)
• Perhaps more important than muscle. (perhaps…)
• Neuro-fascial re-integration is now going to be more important form of body-work than neuro-muscular integration. (!?)
• Fascial resilience influences emotional resilience. (yes)
• Most injuries occur when connective tissue is stretched faster than it can respond. The less it is hydrated, the less elastic response it has. (let’s be mindful in our movement…intention – focus – imagination:)

It’s all in the PSOAS, the center of gravity; source of energy.

Do we need to open it? Strengthen it?  Stretch it & lengthen it?

Ah… I did not see that:  “build a relationship with it with intention.”  I get it now; that’s it.

It’s it:)

One of my teachers I certified with does not allow video into her workshops but she is well published enough so by reading her books – you can self-teach to a certain point through repeated practice… and at workshops, Judith is very open about updating her material. As an expert, she knows anatomy but is also open to evolving and sharing her latest discoveries and findings …  Her guest teacher, Roger Cole, PhD gave scientific and medical evidence to what we knew already by embodied practice … And perhaps because of my latest exposure to TRE, I also found this to be very illuminating.   This yogi sheds this “ah- haah” light on how our internal organs and muscles are inter-related through fascia encasing and the connective tissues – My intention would be to assist with the release of chronic tension build up over the years… to feel light and free:) like a child again – with tender, mindful self-care.

muscle tightness = muscle weakness

Drawing also from Bo Forbes studies, “anti-aging” would then mean keeping your connective tissues and joints, supple and flexible to retain (or increase) your range of motions  … yoga therapeutics to retain ” buoyancy”.  “Buoyancy”…the bounce…

Feeling the tight muscles? Feeling the knots in your gut?  Feeling the neck and the shoulder areas hardening and freezing?  Feeling the tendons, bones and joints as creaky and brittle? Yoga is the answer to youthfulness.  Set an intention. Imagine; even pretend.  Let you inner child shine through again.