Massage Therapy as part of Breast Cancer care
I have been working with a client who is in recovery from breast cancer and from the effects of the treatment for breast cancer. In many ways the latter is the larger piece. Her body bears the surgical...
View ArticleFascia – the undiscovered tissue
PLEASE NOTE – Originally published November/09 on “Your Body. Yourself?” my old blog… This last week the 2nd International Fascia Congress went ahead in Amsterdam. For four days the leading...
View ArticleMy Willem Fourie Course
I was one of a lucky few who got to attend a three day course on treating connective tissue in breast cancer patients taught by Willem Fourie. This course provided me with more specific knowledge and...
View ArticleSurgery and the Body
After surgery your body is very busy indeed. It must finish dealing with the lingering effects of whatever took you into surgery and also heal you of the damage surgery has done. Strange to think of...
View ArticleWillem Fourie, again…
Last week I spent two wonderful days in Vancouver. With hardly any shopping to enhance the experience. I attended an advanced seminar on post-mastectomy care with Willem Fourie, a leader in the world...
View ArticleInternational Fascia Research Congress, Vancouver, BC, Day 2
Today is a new day of learning and the overload is starting to set in. Not in a bad way, but you can see the shiny eagerness beginning to fade, there is more movement during presentations and...
View ArticleInternational Fascia Research Congress, Vancouver, BC – Day 2, the night
Tonight I watched a prophet perform. Not what I expected to see at a Fascial Congress but I am not sure what other words to use. Gil Hedley was the final act in our multimedia night. After three...
View ArticleInternational Fascia Research Congress, Vancouver, BC – Day 3
Today began with a keynote speech by Carla Stecco who spoke on the nature of fascial anatomy. One of the most amazing pieces of information I took from this was the fact that the sheaths of the limbs...
View ArticleSome gutsy learning
vis·cer·al adjective of, or relating to, the viscera relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect synonyms: instinctive, instinctual, gut, deep-down, deep-seated, deep-rooted, inward...
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