Fascia and the living body - and how it completely changes the approach to treatment

Fascia cannot be divided into parts. Follow the tissue from the knee to the hip to the foot and it is one continuous structure, with no beginning and no end. Yet everything about how we are trained to understand the body, from anatomy textbooks to hospital departments, is built on parts. This session looks at what happens to treatment when we take the living, whole body seriously instead.

Drawing on 5,000 fascia research articles, 200 hours of podcast conversations with researchers such as Jean-Claude Guimberteau and Gerald Pollack, and more than 100,000 treatments in Sweden, Axel Bohlin shows why the body is best understood as flow and pressure rather than as separate structures, and why two kinds of knowledge, theoretical and experiential, must work together in the treatment room.

Attendees will leave with a set of simple principles they can apply from the next client onwards: how to see the whole before the detail, why posture and balance come first, and how "we become what we do" changes the conversation with every person on the table.