Why Is Fascia Vital?

Fascia responds to the forces that you put on it! Unlike the muscles and bones that can change and modify themselves quite rapidly (eg. think working out or bone-knitting itself back together post fracture), fascia is the 'slow and steady wins the race'-type of tissue.

Sometimes people wonder why committing to a daily practice of movement is so important. This is why- our fascia is kept hydrated and supple when it is USED! I love my daily CARs (Controlled Articular Rotations) routine in the morning - it has been instrumental in regaining the primitive movements that are so impactful as to how well we will age. I’ve used the adage, 'motion is lotion' for a long while now in reference to the fact that with motion, hydration, range and tensegrity is maintained.

Tensegrity describes a structural-relationship principle in which structural shape is guaranteed by the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional behaviours" (or, the fascia) "of the system and not by the discontinuous and exclusively local compressional member behaviours" (or, the bones).

Mind your movement, peeps!