Micro-systems Acupuncture/Qi Gong/ Yoga

01/08/2022

https://www.holdenqigong.com/how-to-use-general-qi-gong-practices-to-treat-specific-health-conditions/

Everyone has their own unique set of strengths and challenges. When it comes to treating health ailments, no two people are exactly alike. However, Qi Gong is a practice that can be applied to help a wide variety of different physical and mental health conditions. Students often ask Lee Holden how t...

07/12/2021

What is Fascia?
Fascia is tough connective tissue that creates a 3-dimensional web extending without interruption from head to toe. Fascia surrounds and infuses every muscle, bone, nerve, blood vessel, and organ, all the way down to the cellular level.

The fascial system affects every system and function in your body- musculoskeletal, neurological, metabolic, etc. The white, glistening fibers you see when you pull a piece of meat apart or when you pull chicken skin away is fascia.

What is Fascia made of ?
Fascia consists of a complex which has three parts:
1. Elastin fibers - This is the elastic and stretchable part of the complex.

2. Collagen fibers - These fibers are extremely tough and give support to the
structure.

3. Ground substance/matrix: A gelatinous like substance that transports metabolic
material throughout the body

What does fascia do?
The fascial system generally supports, stabilizes, and cushions. Fascia creates separation between vessels, organs, bones, and muscles. It creates space through which delicate nerves, blood vessels, and fluids can pass.

What are Fascial Restrictions?
In a healthy state, the collagen fibers wrap around the elastic fibers in a relaxed, wavy configuration. Trauma, repetitive motion, inflammation, or poor posture can cause the fascia to become solidified and shortened. These thickened areas are referred to as a fascial restriction. Fascial restrictions have the capacity of creating up to 2,000 pounds of pressure per square inch in a restricted area. That crushing pressure can compromise any physiological system in the body resulting in pain and dysfunction.

The fascia throughout the body is all interconnected like the yarn in a sweater or a complex spider web. A restriction in one area of the body creates tension throughout this web pulling on other distant structures. This explains why some people may have pain that appears unrelated to their original injury. Furthermore, myofascial restrictions do not show up on common standardized tests such as x-rays, MRI, CAT scans, etc.

Fascial restrictions can pull the body out of its normal alignment, compressing joint surfaces and bulging disks, resulting in pain, loss of motion, and weakness.

Info collected from Spine - Health, Mayo Clinic, NIH & Medterms
Art by Dan Beckemeyer

05/11/2021

Tongue position! To have the tongue in the correct position the mouth must be closed, the breathing nasal.

Your tongue acts as a rudder and support system through a fascial line that runs right down to your toes!

In nearly all my patients, I see poor tongue posture, and the links to bad spinal posture, breathing, and other issues are felt right throughout the body.

The simplest way we can see how the tongue is so influential is how it supports proper head posture. When the tongue is down and forward, forward head posture and mouth breathing occurs.

Over time this associates with a narrow jaw, crooked teeth, and sleep disorders.

But… you guessed it, as always the mouth is a gateway for so many other systems in the body.

The tongue is an extremely complex muscular and fascial rudder system. This dissection via shows the deep front lines fascial connection.

It guides all the structures of the myofascial continuity that runs from the inner arch of the foot all the way up through the middle of the body to the tongue and jaw muscles.

Isn’t that amazing?

Actually the tongue is potentially more important for core stability than turning on your actual core.

Our core begins deep under the arch with the insertions of the tendons from the lower leg, especially tibialis posterior.

To find its insertion, feel just under the inside arch of the foot, just underneath and forward of protrusion of the navicular bone you can feel a bit over an inch in front of your tibial malleolus on the inside of your ankle.

This point will respond to a soft-but-energy-rich touch that is held, and also to a more firm and direct fascial release. Pressing here can make a flow of feeling run up the fascial line.
So for better core support, spinal, hip and leg strength, you need to work on your tongue posture.

During exercise practice sealing the tongue to the roof of the mouth, this turns on the fascial rudder to the toes. It takes time and you need to work on making the BACK of the tongue connect to the soft palate. More on this to come.

Have you noticed jaw or hip issues?

08/08/2021

The Vagus nerve

Studies of interoception challenge distinctions between disorders of the brain and body—and may hold clues to the basis of consciousness

26/07/2020

Broccoli sprouts are loaded with glucoraphanin, the glucosinolate precursor to the isothiocyanate sulforaphane. This amazing compound has a pretty impressive lineup of health benefits starting off with its cancer-preventing and cancer-fighting abilities. In addition, research shows that sulforaphane supports the heart, bones and respiratory system. In addition, it may help you keep infections at bay, detoxify you from environmental toxins, battle autoimmune disease and may even protect your brain after injury.

Broccoli Sprouts - The Simple Food The Fights Cancer, Protect Against Osteoporosis & Detoxes The Body

12/02/2020

23/01/2020

A trial found 68% of cancer patients who suffer with neuropathy saw their symptoms lessen.

19/01/2020

The Vagus nerve

The mysterious nerve network that quiets pain and stress — and may defeat disease

10/12/2019

I will be teaching Hatha Yoga tomorrow
11/12 Level 2 Yogaloft at 19:05 - 21:05

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