I love the end of year. It gives you the opportunity to look back and see if relationships were honored, if progress and growth matched expectations, and to see if steps forward were taken on your own evolution. I have to say that I am most excited about the Block Therapy Community. For years I…
NAFLD – Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease is one of the fastest growing concerns among North Americans. It has increased dramatically over the past 30 years. Some reasons for this are that we often eat for convenience rather than health, our portions size has dramatically increased and we have become more sedentary. But there is…
In healthy tissue, there is a balance of collagen and elastin to give both structure and flexibility. Scar tissue on the other hand is made of only collagen. When there is an injury or surgery, the scar tissue forms to knit together the gap. The challenge is that this area, big or small as it…
The key to keeping your body fluid and flexible is to understand the fascia and how it glues to bone over time. From incorrect posture and breathing, and injury and/or surgery, scar tissue and compressed fascia adheres to bone with a force up to 2000 pounds per square inch. Stretching alone can’t release this tension…
50% of women have dense breast tissue. If you Google this, you will learn some of the reasons that cause this, as well you will learn that having them can make it harder for Mammograms to detect breast cancer, and and your chances of developing breast cancer may increase. This can be alarming to any…
Concussions, if not treated properly, can leave a person with many challenges. The blow to the head creates damage and debris and inflammation within resulting in pressure in the skull. This needs to be addressed so healing can take place. Pain, fear and stress cause you to reactively hold the breath. This is the first…
What happens when we are injured? Ultimately, there is a force that enters the body resulting in a disruption of tissue. That disruption can be minor if the force weak, or extreme if the force is strong. A weak force may cause a 1st degree sprain in an ankle for example, a strong force may…
What actually causes aging? We know it can be seen in the lines in our face, the spots on our skin, the thinning of our hair and the sagging, hanging tissue that was once taut and firm. It is also the degeneration of our body’s tissue resulting in pain and disease. The ultimate driver of…
It sounds a little ridiculous because the thought of pulling in that much more air into the lungs seems impossible. But it isn’t about how much air we pull in as it is about how much of the oxygen in that air that we absorb. The alveoli are the oxygen receptor sites in the lungs.…
There are many different interpretations of what is going on in the fascia as it releases because there are so many beautiful, magical, complex things happening at once. Just watch the Life of a Cell by David Bolinsky to be amazed at the workings of every single one of our cells, as they are in…
