Akira Yoga

Physically, fascia is wrapped throughout the body on “lines of pull.” It connects your toes to your hips and to the top of your head; your fingers to the arms, shoulders, chest and neck. It coils around your bones, muscle fibers, organs, arteries, veins and nerves. Each organ is wrapped in a hammock of fascia that’s connected to the spine, ribs, or the pelvis.  These fascial connections connect with the muscle fascia that affects your movement and ultimately muscle potential is limited by the quality of the fascia that surrounds it. This is what you feel as a stretch or when you have physical pain. It’s the tension of the fascia that causes feelings of tightness. Tendons and ligaments are layers of fascia that are meant to absorb shock and distribute the impact of this shock throughout the body.