This was a great one Gil. I always go back to what you told me so long ago with terms and definitions of fascia, ECM, connective tissue, Interstitium... it's all the same stuff. The difference is, are you looking at it in dissection and cutting it with a blade or are you looking at it under a microscope. If you use atomic force microscopy, you're looking so deeply at the cellular level, you're looking beyond layers. But in dissection and in the living human body there are definable membranes and layers that allow us to move on a macroscopic level. So, there are layers we can define and allow us to move, each region of the body possesses different functions and, on the whole, there are no layers - we are one, cohesive human being possessing the ability to have one important function - life. Keep these great talks coming! I love starting my mornings off with them!
I love you Sue! Thank you for "getting it" for so long and with so much appreciation!! Folks, if you don't know Sue, she is an AMAZING teacher whose profound self-healing work should be on your radar, check her out at: www.meltmethod.com You will surely be enriched!
Thank you for settling this question! Showing the textural layers and the collagen threads running through them clearly illustrates the differentiation of the layers while showing the continuity, interconnection, and interdependency of the various tissues. Imagine if we had the layers without the threads. Everything would be slipping and sliding all over the place! And thanks for taking a bite of the onion; one could hear you penetrating through the layers :).
Well done, Gil! You might have added that, when we place a microscope up to where one of those boundaries of the layer seems to be, we find not a line, but a continuous web, which further illustrates your point that this is all continuous tissue, as Guimberteau stresses.
Yes exactly Carol! Those in between spaces of webby wet membrane I call perifascia, which I hope folks will check out in my extensive video archives in my site and on my youtube channel here. Perifascia is the anatomy of differential movement at those seeming boundaries, that permit for both movement and continuity between textural layers, and it amounts to a slippery membranous textural layer of its own. Guimberteau, with whom I am friends and also admire for his beautiful films, loves to lean towards the "No layers!" side of things a bit more than I would, and at the microscopic scale of course, the gross layers must of course recede...but even at the level of the cell, we find the body differentiates clearly into multilayered cell membranes, organelle boundaries, and the layers of the nucleus. The cotton candy is there too, it just doesn't tell the whole story. Thanks for watching Carol! For those of you who don't know Carol Davis, PT, PhD, she is a master teacher with a wonderful book as well: Integrative Therapies in Rehabilitation www.amazon.com/Integrative-Therapies-Rehabilitation-Evidence-Prevention/dp/1630910430 Enjoy!
Oh fantastic Denise, I very much appreciate your membership and am very glad to know you are enjoying being an Explorer with me on my site, THANK YOU!!
Gil, your explanation is so profound and insightful to someone with thirty years experience as a bodyworker. It invites me deeper into the matrix. It beckons an inquiry into the “fascial organ” and to move beyond muscle origin insertion/trigger point/deep tissue techniques. What are we treating when we treat? P.s. I love your content on your website and am a proud somanaut.
Thank you so much for saying all of this Ted, I really appreciate hearing from and experienced practitioner like yourself, and knowing that this content is hitting the spot for you!!!
Thank you for never being afraid to tackle a controversial subject head-on, Gil, and with your usual humility and curiosity! Disagreeing about fascial layers in principle gets in the way of so much learning, in class and especially on social media. If anyone can bring the two extreme camps together to realise they are stronger together (just like all our human layers, physical and otherwise) it will be you Did ya really have to go there with the onion at the end, tho? Maaaaaaan 😵💫🤢🤣
*Undifferentiated cotton candy* is also how I feel after eating that sticky stuff...certainly a different feeling than gnawing on an onion. But seriously Gil, BRAVO for the clarity of this video. I love experiencing the different "textures" and their inherent or transient tensions. Thank you!
Haha thanks for watching Jill, fun stuff!! For those of you who don't know Jill's brilliant work, check out her offerings at www.tuneupfitness.com/teacher/jill-miller-creator-yoga-tune-up Enjoy!
Watching your video makes me wonder about how the term continuity could be used in the genre of spirituality. Several months ago I drew an outline of a human figure and then "layers" around that form which to me indicated the possibility of how information could be recorded and held within those "layers" and then I wondered about how that could both affect and effect our life. Thoughts?? Also, thanks for helping me to think even more deeply, Gil. :) (my 30th year of LMT hood is this October and your videos have been amazing for me!!) xo
Ohhhh that would be a fun topic for another video Carol, I love it! And I absolutely believe and know that those layers you drew are interactive with others and biologically active...I will do that one!
Looking forward to the biological layers interacting with the spiritual layers talk!!! For those who oppose spiritual as a definition due to religious connotations, would /could one consider spiritual synonymous to experience / experiential?
Every time, the videos are fantastic! So, what do you call the inner de-cellularized organ matrix fascia? Are you gonna give all those layers names? I await evermore thrilling understanding and communication with my and other's layers. (That bite of onion probably cured you of every possible disease you have come into contact with. Delightful!)
Haha thanks for hanging in there for the onion bite :) I wouldn't call that de-cellularized organ matrix fascia, but I would call it connective tissue. I would call the wrapping of the organ a fascia (e.g. the visceral peritoneum of the live) because I can cut it into sheet with a knife as an aggregate of connective tissue that wraps and covers...these are the particularities of nomenclature, for which the body does not actually give a hoot haha!
This was a great one Gil. I always go back to what you told me so long ago with terms and definitions of fascia, ECM, connective tissue, Interstitium... it's all the same stuff. The difference is, are you looking at it in dissection and cutting it with a blade or are you looking at it under a microscope. If you use atomic force microscopy, you're looking so deeply at the cellular level, you're looking beyond layers. But in dissection and in the living human body there are definable membranes and layers that allow us to move on a macroscopic level. So, there are layers we can define and allow us to move, each region of the body possesses different functions and, on the whole, there are no layers - we are one, cohesive human being possessing the ability to have one important function - life. Keep these great talks coming! I love starting my mornings off with them!
I love you Sue! Thank you for "getting it" for so long and with so much appreciation!! Folks, if you don't know Sue, she is an AMAZING teacher whose profound self-healing work should be on your radar, check her out at: www.meltmethod.com You will surely be enriched!
LOVE MELT. Thank you for that.
Studying with you has completely changed the way I teach anatomy to my students. Thank you for your education ❤
That is very gratifying to hear Alison, thank for saying so, it keeps me going!
Thank you for settling this question! Showing the textural layers and the collagen threads running through them clearly illustrates the differentiation of the layers while showing the continuity, interconnection, and interdependency of the various tissues. Imagine if we had the layers without the threads. Everything would be slipping and sliding all over the place! And thanks for taking a bite of the onion; one could hear you penetrating through the layers :).
Thanks for watching Ana, and, for making it all the way through the onion with me!
Best anatomy classes ever! Thank you, Dr. Gil.
Wow thank you Vyoma!
Thank you Gil for sharing.
You're most welcome George!
Well done, Gil! You might have added that, when we place a microscope up to where one of those boundaries of the layer seems to be, we find not a line, but a continuous web, which further illustrates your point that this is all continuous tissue, as Guimberteau stresses.
Yes exactly Carol! Those in between spaces of webby wet membrane I call perifascia, which I hope folks will check out in my extensive video archives in my site and on my youtube channel here. Perifascia is the anatomy of differential movement at those seeming boundaries, that permit for both movement and continuity between textural layers, and it amounts to a slippery membranous textural layer of its own. Guimberteau, with whom I am friends and also admire for his beautiful films, loves to lean towards the "No layers!" side of things a bit more than I would, and at the microscopic scale of course, the gross layers must of course recede...but even at the level of the cell, we find the body differentiates clearly into multilayered cell membranes, organelle boundaries, and the layers of the nucleus. The cotton candy is there too, it just doesn't tell the whole story. Thanks for watching Carol! For those of you who don't know Carol Davis, PT, PhD, she is a master teacher with a wonderful book as well: Integrative Therapies in Rehabilitation www.amazon.com/Integrative-Therapies-Rehabilitation-Evidence-Prevention/dp/1630910430 Enjoy!
What you do!
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Oh fantastic Denise, I very much appreciate your membership and am very glad to know you are enjoying being an Explorer with me on my site, THANK YOU!!
Gil, your explanation is so profound and insightful to someone with thirty years experience as a bodyworker. It invites me deeper into the matrix. It beckons an inquiry into the “fascial organ” and to move beyond muscle origin insertion/trigger point/deep tissue techniques. What are we treating when we treat? P.s. I love your content on your website and am a proud somanaut.
Thank you so much for saying all of this Ted, I really appreciate hearing from and experienced practitioner like yourself, and knowing that this content is hitting the spot for you!!!
Thank you for never being afraid to tackle a controversial subject head-on, Gil, and with your usual humility and curiosity! Disagreeing about fascial layers in principle gets in the way of so much learning, in class and especially on social media. If anyone can bring the two extreme camps together to realise they are stronger together (just like all our human layers, physical and otherwise) it will be you
Did ya really have to go there with the onion at the end, tho? Maaaaaaan 😵💫🤢🤣
Thank you Nicki, I very much appreciate hearing your kind words here and, YES, I HAD to go there, haha!
*Undifferentiated cotton candy* is also how I feel after eating that sticky stuff...certainly a different feeling than gnawing on an onion. But seriously Gil, BRAVO for the clarity of this video. I love experiencing the different "textures" and their inherent or transient tensions. Thank you!
Haha thanks for watching Jill, fun stuff!! For those of you who don't know Jill's brilliant work, check out her offerings at www.tuneupfitness.com/teacher/jill-miller-creator-yoga-tune-up Enjoy!
Thank you Gil!
You are most welcome Angel!
Watching your video makes me wonder about how the term continuity could be used in the genre of spirituality. Several months ago I drew an outline of a human figure and then "layers" around that form which to me indicated the possibility of how information could be recorded and held within those "layers" and then I wondered about how that could both affect and effect our life. Thoughts?? Also, thanks for helping me to think even more deeply, Gil. :) (my 30th year of LMT hood is this October and your videos have been amazing for me!!) xo
Ohhhh that would be a fun topic for another video Carol, I love it! And I absolutely believe and know that those layers you drew are interactive with others and biologically active...I will do that one!
I love your idea Gil! My heart is smiling :)
Looking forward to the biological layers interacting with the spiritual layers talk!!! For those who oppose spiritual as a definition due to religious connotations, would /could one consider spiritual synonymous to experience / experiential?
Every time, the videos are fantastic! So, what do you call the inner de-cellularized organ matrix fascia? Are you gonna give all those layers names? I await evermore thrilling understanding and communication with my and other's layers. (That bite of onion probably cured you of every possible disease you have come into contact with. Delightful!)
Haha thanks for hanging in there for the onion bite :) I wouldn't call that de-cellularized organ matrix fascia, but I would call it connective tissue. I would call the wrapping of the organ a fascia (e.g. the visceral peritoneum of the live) because I can cut it into sheet with a knife as an aggregate of connective tissue that wraps and covers...these are the particularities of nomenclature, for which the body does not actually give a hoot haha!
So did you eat the onion bite or spit it out?
I swallowed it, it was delicious! My dad ate onions like apples, it's a family thing haha!
@@gilhedley449 Spicy apple!
You guys have onions that are twice the size of ours!! 😳
Yah we grow 'em big Paula!!
Good point: layers but no spaces. "Continuity" is the key.
Yes!!
I have used the metaphor of pealing an onion going through the layers when getting to know someone very well. Kinda the same thing .
Yes!
It's both baby... one and layers. That's the mystery of life.
Particle and Wave baby!
Oh, if only our insides were cotton candy - yum!!
Haha yum indeed :)