… is my latest book devoured. It expands my options for working with scars and adhesions.
Scars come in many forms – think injury, surgery, inflammation, burns, grafts. In the new year I’ll post an article/blog with more information, but in short the book explores:
A New Understanding of the soft-matter living body. New dissection and imaging techniques in the last 15 years give us a clear sense of how the living body is relentlessly connected with, no real boundaries or separation, no matter how far you “zoom in” or “zoom out”.
A New Understanding of the architecture of the body as a dynamic balance between tension and compression (“Biotensegrity”) rather than a system of levers and pulleys. This lends an entirely new sense to our language about movement. It returns us the permission to move instinctually, and to play off and engage with our environment — both internally and externally. We can know gravity as our friend.
How a scar’s texture and density is different to original tissue, and how the body adapts and changes in response to the “knot in its fabric”. The effect of a scar can show up at what seems like a great distance in space or time. A scar on the R leg can interact with L shoulder problems, and an appendectomy scar in our 2nd or 3rd decade can limit spine mobility that becomes a problem in our 4th, 5th or 6th decade.
Treatment, and how working lightly with scars and adhesions differs from strong/forceful massage, or surgery. The mechanism is different, and at first counterintuitive … but when looked at from a cellular/tissue response perspective it makes sense. Scar tissue can change, no matter how long ago it arrived in your life.
