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It turns out fascia is our richest, and our largest, sensory organ with ten times higher quantity of sensory nerve receptors than the muscles.

How we move, and how frequently we move, and in what range of variation we move makes a big difference in how we experience our bodies in the present tense, and also how we age.

What do you get when juiciness, connectedness, and tensegrity harmonize? Springiness!

Let’s hop back to the architecture of our fascia again. Not only does our fascia have this suspended tensegrity architecture, it also has a liquid quality too.

How to understand understand the domino effect- otherwise known as the dreaded compensatory pattern.

The term “tensegrity” was created by Buckminster Fuller in the 1960’s as a way to refer to “tensional integrity”, and in his case he was talking about it as it relates to an engineering principle in architecture.

Just as there are no local problems, there are also no local movements. We are taught to view individual muscles as the things the move our skeleton. And while they clearly participate in that, a large portion of that tensional force is transmitted via fascial sheets.

We probably understand that our body parts aren’t detachable. But the problem comes when we think of them as attachable. Because of the way we all learn and study anatomy- whether the extent of your studying was singing “the hip bone’s connected to the thigh bone” song in preschool, or something more extensive- we tend to conceive of human bodies as “attached” by magical soft tissue versions of tape.

Many have thought of fascia as a glorified body stocking- a seamless piece of tissue that Saran Wraps you just underneath the skin. While this is true of the superficial fascia, it’s important to understand that it is a richly multidimensional tissue that forms your internal soft tissue architecture.