How Yoga Can Improve the Health, Flexibility, and Mobility of Our Connective Tissue

Written by Jerica on . Posted in 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, What's Happening at WYC?.

by Tara Scarborough

Focused in my parvarita uptavista konasona (revolved seated wide angle pose), I breathed and listened to the teacher’s cues, moving slightly and then it happened.  Uncontrollable tears.  I continued to breathe through it, eyes closed and then I looked down and I was spread out over my revolved leg, almost completely touching it.  Far deeper than I had ever been before. I knew I had experienced what is known as an “emotional release” in yoga but I now know that experience was truly a fascial release.

Fascia is a form of connective tissue and indeed is the most widely spread connective tissue of the body.  It weaves through the body as one large interconnected network surrounding every cell, every muscle, every organ.  At times it is very fine and threadlike and at times it is broad and dense and thick such as locations like the thoracolumbar fascia in the low back.   Fascia brings support to the tissues of the body but it’s not a rigid dense support such as other forms of connective tissue, like bones, or cartilage .  Fascia should glide and move easily but when it is exposed to trauma, whether that trauma is a single traumatic event or repeated microtraumas it begins to become rigid, solidifying and “freezing” those tissues ultimately causing pain and dysfunction.

As connective tissue, fascia is also thought to hold those traumas–emotions, memories, pain.  So that experience I had while in that yoga pose, was quite literally the release of emotions trapped in the fascia.

Fascia was not widely studied until relatively recently and is opening up a whole new world as an incredibly important connective tissue, and not just the “covering around a chicken breast” as was taught 25 years ago.  Join Jay and Tara for an immersion weekend on how connective tissue affects the health of the whole body and how yoga can affect the health, flexibility and mobility of the body

Interested in a deep dive into How Yoga Can Improve the Health, Flexibility, and Mobility of Our Connective Tissue with Tara and Jay? Register here for an immersive weekend!

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