The Fascial Matrix is both a tissue and a system.
Fascial tissue is a silvery white connective tissue that surrounds every muscle, bone, organ, nerve, and vessel down to the cellular level. This connective tissue forms a three-dimensional web or MATRIX that connects from head to toe, arm to arm, without interruption. This system’s function is to support vital organs in their correct position and provide cohesion to all the body structures. The Fascial Matrix keeps everything separate yet interconnected at the same time.
While it is a multifaceted entanglement of tissue within each body system, the Fascial Matrix performs a more complex role in the body.
Within the Fascial Matrix, we find imprints of the stresses of our life experiences, some of them being traumas. These imprints begin during fetal development and include our womb experience. Our birth experience creates an additional imprint within the weave of the fascial tissue.
From there, we may experience other life traumas or stresses. These can be in the form of accidents, surgeries, medical procedures, or emotional wounds, all which result in bracing patterns, scars, adhesions, and crystallizations within the weave of the fascia.
Over time, the imprints of traumas overlap, layer, and intertwine creating further restrictions. Fascial restrictions can create substantial pressure within the nervous system, the muscular system, the digestive system, the urogenital system, the respiratory system, and the lymphatic system.
Fascial restrictions pull or twist into adjacent or distant areas from the original trauma and have an effect like compressive bands (rubber bands) which limit the function and structure of the body. This effect can leave someone feeling like they are confined in a straitjacket.