I often get asked ‘What exactly is Fascia’?

I often get asked what exactly is Fascia ?

If you like a bit of anatomy & physiology you might like this .

So, fascia is the connective tissue that covers and runs right through the muscle, coming together to form the tendons at either end.

The tendons knit into the periosteum, the fibrous connective tissue covering of bones that is essentially made up of the same stuff as the tendons.

Through this fascia the whole body is connected.

Fascia runs in sheets throughout our body, connecting all of our structure .

It spirals around and through our muscles, covers our bones, makes up our ligaments and covers all our important organs.

There is a soft tissue body work technique practiced by cranial sacral therapists called fascial unwinding in which the head or a limb is held gently supported and allowed to move in any direction it wants to.

The thinking is that the fascia gets twisted up over the years and allowing the body to move in this way unwinds it to release stored emotional baggage.

Our meridians also run through the fascia .