What is Fascia?

The fascial system covers the entire body like a connective web. It surrounds and interweaves between all organs, muscles, bones and nerve fibers giving the body a functional structure that allows all body systems to operate in an integrated manner.  It’s the largest sensory organ in your body with 250 million sensory receptors and it plays a roll with your immune system, neurological well-being, and how you sense and feel the world around you. There are 12 fascial lines in our body. These lines wrap around muscles, separate muscle fibers, and muscles from bones as well as connect them. Every single muscle is wrapped in fascia and each bundle of fascia is connected to another bundle of fascia, which means that everything is connected in the human body, not separate parts.

“It’s not about the stuff in the body, it’s the pattern.” Tom Myers @Anatomy Trains

What is Body Reading?

Body Reading is a visual assessment tool of structural analysis for identifying and resolving body-wide patterns of compensation. You look beyond the muscles and assess how the fascial lines influence relationships with posture, skeletal geometry, patterns and spaces throughout the body. Utilizing Thomas Myers’ model of myofascial lines (mapping layers of connective tissue) you look at the body as a system, not parts. The goal of these body reading assessments is to understand the pattern so you can create fascial tensegrity, develop resilience and stability throughout your body.