Therapeutic Yoga: Healing the Body Through Fascia Release
Fascia is the soft tissue component of the connective tissue system that permeates the human body. The fascia system forms a continuous tensional network throughout the human body and envelopes every element of the body, including the muscles, organs, bones, nerves, arteries and veins. When the fascia is healthy and in good condition, force is transmitted through the body with ease, fluidity and vitality. Healthy fascia is highly elastic and resilient, and provides a high level of stability during dynamic loading, which in turn provides for a high degree of injury prevention.
When the fascia health is compromised, this creates a loss of elasticity and resilience, and injury to the body occurs more easily. With an injury or excessive strain, it is the fascia that often adapts to stabilize the local area by shortening, thickening, and adhering to neighbouring structures in the body. Fascia adhesions affect the whole structure of the body and often result in fatigue, misalignment, discomfort and restriction of movement.
The fascia of the body tells a story of a person’s life, all events are reflected in the fascia including physical and emotional trauma. When there is an adhesion in the fascia, it is often a sign that the communication in the body has been compromised to some degree.
In order to bring the fascia back to a healthy condition and function, we need to restore proper communication in the fascia network of the body. In this series, we will explore the Tensegrity Repair Series, created by Gioia Irwin, which involves movements mostly done on your back, with use of a block, strap, and other yogic props. Guided by the principle of working at 70 percent effort, we move within to strengthen the core and the deeper muscles of the body, while helping to ease holding patterns from old in juries in the fascial body. When applying the tensegrity/bio tensegrity model to our yoga practice, we start to discover our true range of motion in a given moment, which allows our awareness to become clearer on the sensations we are experiencing in the body.
Benefits may start arising as such:
EXTRA BONUS: These classes will be recorded and video links will remain available until June 30, 2025 so if you miss a class, you won’t miss anything. Additional handouts will be provided as well.
These classes are in person, there is also an option to register for “Virtual Only” if the class time does not work for you; you will then receive all the recordings.
Series Details:
Therapeutic Yoga: Healing the Body Through Fascia Release
Mondays, 4:15-5:30pm, Mar 17-Apr 28, 2025 (no class on Easter Monday)
6-week series: Early Bird $144 + hst by March 15; regular pricing $160 + hst
To register, please use the links below:
Fascia is the soft tissue component of the connective tissue system that permeates the human body. The fascia system forms a continuous tensional network throughout the human body and envelopes every element of the body, including the muscles, organs, bones, nerves, arteries and veins. When the fascia is healthy and in good condition, force is transmitted through the body with ease, fluidity and vitality. Healthy fascia is highly elastic and resilient, and provides a high level of stability during dynamic loading, which in turn provides for a high degree of injury prevention.
When the fascia health is compromised, this creates a loss of elasticity and resilience, and injury to the body occurs more easily. With an injury or excessive strain, it is the fascia that often adapts to stabilize the local area by shortening, thickening, and adhering to neighbouring structures in the body. Fascia adhesions affect the whole structure of the body and often result in fatigue, misalignment, discomfort and restriction of movement.
The fascia of the body tells a story of a person’s life, all events are reflected in the fascia including physical and emotional trauma. When there is an adhesion in the fascia, it is often a sign that the communication in the body has been compromised to some degree.
In order to bring the fascia back to a healthy condition and function, we need to restore proper communication in the fascia network of the body. In this series, we will explore the Tensegrity Repair Series, created by Gioia Irwin, which involves movements mostly done on your back, with use of a block, strap, and other yogic props. Guided by the principle of working at 70 percent effort, we move within to strengthen the core and the deeper muscles of the body, while helping to ease holding patterns from old in juries in the fascial body. When applying the tensegrity/bio tensegrity model to our yoga practice, we start to discover our true range of motion in a given moment, which allows our awareness to become clearer on the sensations we are experiencing in the body.
Benefits may start arising as such:
- Space and openness in areas of the body;
- Deepening, lengthening and slowing down of the breath;
- Feeling of being supported by a column of air and energy;
- Feeling of lightness in the body accompanied by a heavy rooted connection to the earth with the feet;
- Fluid quality to movements and the movement of energy in the body;
- Mind becomes calmer;
- A centerline of support (core) starts to become more apparent;
- Our bones feel light as if “suspended and floating in a web of support”;
- The body starts to feel more stable and stronger, working more as a full unit of support.
EXTRA BONUS: These classes will be recorded and video links will remain available until June 30, 2025 so if you miss a class, you won’t miss anything. Additional handouts will be provided as well.
These classes are in person, there is also an option to register for “Virtual Only” if the class time does not work for you; you will then receive all the recordings.
Series Details:
Therapeutic Yoga: Healing the Body Through Fascia Release
Mondays, 4:15-5:30pm, Mar 17-Apr 28, 2025 (no class on Easter Monday)
6-week series: Early Bird $144 + hst by March 15; regular pricing $160 + hst
To register, please use the links below: