Body in Harmony Training

05/12/2025

Why, as a therapist, should you work on your clients' scars, especially if they look and feel OK? Here are the key reasons why addressing scars is important:

1. Scars can restrict fascia and movement

The adhesions that almost inevitably come with the scars stick structures together that should not be stuck together. This reduces the ability of tissue and organs, for example, to glide over each other. This can limit mobility and functionality.

2. A good scar therapy can restore sensitivity to areas that feel numb, hypersensitive, or "disconnected" by reducing fascial restrictions that may be affecting neural pathways.

3. Support of healing and tissue quality

Working on a scar, if done correctly, encourages better hydration, elasticity, and integration of scar tissue into surrounding fascia. This often makes scars softer, flatter and reduces any tension in the scar and surrounding tissues.

4. Can reduce pain and discomfort

Because scars may become tethered into underlying tissues, this restriction can be uncomfortable or painful for the client. A good scar therapy uses light touch which is easy on the client and frees tissue restriction rather than trying to break scar tissue down which is a painful and unproductive process.

5. Improves lymphatic and circulatory flow

Scars and adhesions can impair circulation and lymph drainage.

6. Enhances emotional and psychological well-being

Scars can carry emotional weight. Softening the scar physically and improving how it looks and feels often helps clients reconnect with the area and feel more at ease with their body.

7. Benefits both recent and older scars

Whether a scar is new or decades old, with the right therapy scars still respond, improving function, appearance, and comfort.

At Body in Harmony Training we teach Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork - a tried and tested approach that is taught globally. If you'd like to find out more about ScarWork and explore what our ScarWork course could do for you, visit https://www.bodyinharmony.org.uk/what-we-teach/scarwork

04/12/2025

I spent a lovely three days teaching this great group of therapists how to take their ScarWork knowledge and understanding up a level last weekend.

The Pelvic and Abdominal scarring course includes Full Body Integration - fabulous tools to help your client at an even deeper level once the ScarWork has been done.

If you would like to be on the waiting list for the next course email admin@bodyinharmony.org.uk and we'll let you know when booking opens.

29/11/2025

This is what I do with my other hat on! Just love running The Fascia Hub!!

28/11/2025

We often forget all about our feet, hanging around there on the end of our legs, but we’d be lost without them!

Our Principal, Jan Trewartha, wrote a blog all about the feet and how best to look after them, which you can read a snippet of below.

Jan writes:

"Because of the full connectivity of the fascia (a connective tissue of the body), what happens in the feet is directly translated elsewhere in the body – and vice versa. Therefore, you can work on your back or even your shoulder pain by looking after your feet... and vice versa!

I often use a small ball to help my feet. If I have worn less than ideal shoes or had my feet encased in shoes all day, then I sit and roll my feet with a ball at the end of the evening. I avoid high heels these days, and also any shoes (flipflops, backless sandals, etc.) that require me to grip them with my toes just to keep them on, because this contracts the plantar fascia under the base of the foot and causes problems in the Achilles tendon, feeding up into the legs and the rest of the body.

I’ve pictured (above) a make of ball that is really useful: the Melt set of balls with exercises (MELT Method ). Sometimes I just roll one around under my feet (or under my shoulders or other tense areas), and sometimes I work with the exercises provided – it depends on my mood! You can use other soft to medium density balls - fascia responds best to the light rather than the heavy approach and you definitely shouldn't hurt yourself doing this.

So, consider introducing your feet to this new tool; go very gently at first and work in gradually – pain is not conducive to relaxing your feet but will tense you up instead. The light touch approach is just as effective as digging deeply into the muscles, if not more so; more and more research is being done to demonstrate this."

Are your feet having a 'ball' or could you do more to ensure their comfort and health? How about your clients, are you seeing cases where the feet are causing problems in other areas of the body? Let us know in the comments.

24/11/2025

A few places left still for this amazing opportunity! Free ScarWork to pelvic and abdominal scars with my supervised students this Friday and Saturday in Shepherds Bush, London. Just complete the form to apply, thank you.

Please click the link to complete this form.

22/11/2025

Scarring can have a deep and lasting impact on children; emotionally, physically, and socially. From fear and pain to self-consciousness and difficulties with touch, the effects often run far deeper than the scar itself.

In a recent blog, we explored how scars shape a child’s experience, how families can support healing, and why positive touch and acceptance matter so much.

If you work with children, are a parent, or simply want to understand this important topic, this is a must-read. Read the blog in full here - https://www.bodyinharmony.org.uk/blog/the-scarred-child

20/11/2025

Invitation for free supervised work with my students!

I invite you to receive work from my supervised, ScarWork students over 28 - 30 November, Shepherds Bush, London.

We have some spaces still for scar models to receive work to abdominal and pelvic scars on 28/29 Nov if you have had no or little Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork to those scars. Also, for those of you who have had a lot of work to any scars anywhere on your body, on Sunday 30 Nov we are teaching full body integration and this day would be perfect for you.

Here is a recent testimonial from one of our scar models:

"Truly fascinating what ScarWork can do – a scar isn’t just a scar that closes up again and all is well ….. these sessions mobilise the internal layers to align tissues and increase mobility, reduce obstructions and – added bonus – improve the scar’s appearance too!" Irene

Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork (www.scarwork.com) is gentle, painless and usually effective on most scars. This course focuses on pelvic and abdominal scars on men and women, and takes the student deeper into working with the full body rather than just on the scar alone; this is designed to help resolve short/long term related pain or imbalance. For example, an old hysterectomy scar may be contributing towards your back pain or knee problems, so we work on the scar then integrate other, involved areas of the body.

If you have a Caesarean, hysterectomy scar, or inguinal hernias, etc with little or some ScarWork done, please complete the application form for days 1 or 2 as appropriate, via the link below. If you have other scars, anywhere on the body, that have received Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork and are fairly well healed but still creating local or body-wide discomfort by affecting your posture or mobility or causing pain, please use the same link to book in on day 3. Please read carefully to ensure you book in for the right day for you.

Please click the link to complete this form.

18/11/2025

Looking forward to hosting Dr. Arielle Schwartz in my capacity of Director of The Fascia Hub. I get all the best jobs!

In just over a week, join Dr. Arielle Schwartz, licensed psychologist and leading voice in the healing of trauma, for our monthly Members' Webinar.

Arielle will be giving us practical, embodied tools that centralise the nervous system in the journey of trauma recovery. She will explain why dysregulation of the nervous system underlies a wide range of mental and physical health conditions. You will come away with body-based tools that regulate, rebalance, and rewire the nervous system.

This discussion is based around Arielle's new book, The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma. As a Fascia Hub Member, you can enjoy a discount of 25% off the book - just go to this month's reading at https://thefasciahub.com/blog/stress-trauma-and-your-breath-2 and https://thefasciahub.com/blog/applied-polyvagal-theory-in-trauma-treatment-dr-arielle-schwartz kindly provided by Arielle, to find your coupon code.

Join us this weekend - https://bit.ly/TFH-MMW-NOV25.

Members can book their place here - https://bit.ly/TFH-ML-NOV25.

14/11/2025

Two aspects of disconnection are often obvious when working with clients’ scars – the emotional and the physical, and they are not separate.

Emotional disconnection from the physically affected part of our body can develop, leaving us unable to touch it, or to allow others to touch it; this can become a severe dislike or hatred of the area, our bodies and/or ourselves. If our self-love is based on our looks rather than on who we are as a person, it is possible for disfigurement to lead to severe psychological issues.

As a therapist assessing our client, we can often see that the affected limb or part of their body where the disconnect lies may look different – maybe denser or lighter – or that as they walk the body is not synchronised. It is not always just the scarred area that is involved.

Learn more about scars, how they affect us and how to help at a profound level by training in Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork with us here at Body in Harmony Training. Find details of our next ScarWork course on our website on this link: https://www.bodyinharmony.org.uk/fascia-training-courses/sharon-wheelers-scarwork-course

11/11/2025

It's not long now until the start of our Pelvic and Abdominal Scarring & Full Body Integration course. - Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork therapists, why not join us on the 28th - 30th November in London?

Our in-person training focuses on understanding and treating the pelvic and abdominal region — one of the most emotionally and structurally significant areas of the body. You’ll explore how surgical and injury-based scars can influence breathing, posture, and integration across the fascial network.

You will also learn the importance of full body integration once the scars have been worked on; restore a sense of cohesion to your clients and help them optimise their mobility and ROM.

This specialist course is for qualified Sharon Wheeler’s ScarWork therapists only. Take your ScarWork to the next level and develop your confidence working with any scar and any postural distortion.

Find out more about this exceptional course here - https://www.bodyinharmony.org.uk/fascia-training-courses/pelvic-abdominal-scarring

We look forward to sharing this work with you.

08/11/2025

Major adhesions after pelvic/abdominal surgery, such as a 'tummy tuck', DIEP flap surgery, hemi-colectomy etc, may cause you to feel like this inside. This can manifest as altered posture as fascial restrictions develop internally, often creating a bent-over posture it feels impossible for you to counteract.

Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork is renowned for gently unravelling the tension in restricted fascia and affected muscles and organs, and for helping to free compressed nerves and blood vessels, usually helping clients to stand straight again as well as improve movement and function.

If you're feeling like this inside, don't give up hope. Find a therapist who does Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork and start to address the problem today.

If you are a therapist and have a client who is suffering, learn how to help them by training in this life-changing work.

Discover our range of upcoming courses, and get ready to make a real change!

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07/11/2025

Do you understand the importance of working on your clients' scars? Take a look at the case below and decide whether you can afford not to train in this work which is sweeping the world!

Body in Harmony Director, Jan Trewartha, recently came back from a trip to China, where she was teaching Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork techniques to a large group of therapists, surgeons, doctors and physiotherapists.

The gentleman in the ''before and after treatment' images below was one of her demonstration scar models. He is a farmer, very fit and active, but he had open heart surgery a few years ago. Since then he has been feeling increasingly dyspnoeic and with rapidly decreasing ROM.

After Jan worked on him there were many noticeable differences, including:

- a visibly improved expansion of his upper body
- improved definition and mobility in his shoulders and arms
- reduced rotation of the abdomen to the left
- shape change of the costal margin of the rib cage
- improved breathing

It is always a joy to help restore someone's mobility and function - with ScarWork it doesn't take long for the scar and the surrounding tissues to change.

Imagine you could do this work! Then imagine the difference you could make to your clients' health, mobility and functionality.

Our next course is in North London, April 17 - 20. Click here to find out more about Sharon Wheeler's Scarwork - https://www.bodyinharmony.org.uk/fascia-training-courses/sharon-wheelers-scarwork-course