Hello, I am your Fascia - The Largest Sensory Organ You may have Never Heard Of

About this episode

This episode explores the fascia system as the body's largest sensory organ and its implications for health and movement.

https://shaolin-yijinjing.com/ The Largest Sensory Organ You may have Never Heard Of If I were to ask you to name the body's largest sensory organ, you would probably say the skin. It turns out that your fascia system holds that title now, given the recent revelation that the Fascial System is an internal organ with many circulatory, regenerative, and sensory functions. Over 80% of your body is made up of this beautiful and potent landscape. Before diving into this in-depth conversation, and a few practical follow up articles, I just want to pause. What are the implications in your life, and for your health knowing that? What comes to mind with respect to how you move, train, rest, age, and experience pain? Fascia has ten times more proprioceptive receptors than muscle tissue. The term 'proprioception' refers to your body's ability to sense its own position, movement, and special interactions. Your highly innervated fascia is a tissue most of us have never consciously thought about, it is more densely wired for sensation than the muscles you have trained and thought you were relying on for balance and precision. This is now established, peer-reviewed hard science. In China, at…

Topics covered

• fascia
• sensory organ
• proprioception
• health
• movement

Keywords

• Fascial System
• circulatory functions
• regenerative functions
• pain
• Qi Gong

Mentioned in this episode

Products: the Fascial System

Places: China

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