What Is Fascia?

Fascia is the comprehensive network of connective tissue enveloping and permeating every structure within the body, including muscles, bones, organs, ligaments, tendons, nerves, veins, and arteries. This intricate system houses the extracellular matrix and functions as a conduit for the circulation of various fluids and our body’s piezoelectric system. Fascia plays a pivotal role in either facilitating seamless, pain-free movement or the  hindrance of it.

Housed within the fascia is our cellular memory, where our trauma and emotions find their home, if suppressed or not released. The various stresses, physical and emotional traumas, and challenging experiences we encounter throughout our lives, starting from conception in the womb, can result in blockages and thickening of our fascia, as well as contraction of our psoas muscle. These disruptions can subsequently lead to a wide array of issues and bodily responses, creating symptoms such as chronic pain, headaches, decreased mobility, seemingly unprovoked inflammation and emotional outbursts that feel uncontrollable.