Fascinating Fascia: 5 hour CPD
with Julie Pons Woods

This CPD is an open discussion on fascial continuities in yoga or other movement practice. We will have a look at what has been found in recent research and how to apply it to movement techniques

At the end of this course you will:

Julie is a Yoga Therapist, Anatomy Teacher and a Movement Facilitator.

She offers yoga therapy and anatomy workshops throughout England and Europe, teaches 2 online anatomy courses per year .

As a Yoga Elder, I have been teaching yoga for over a decade. When I was 13, I was diagnosed with Scoliosis and had to go regularly to the physiotherapist to improve my posture and reduce my back pain.

Life brought me to India for work from 2008 till 2010 where I discovered Yoga. Thanks to my teacher, I no longer needed to go to the physio, I had my practice to manage my pain. So, like many of us, I can say “Yoga changed how I look at my own life”.

When I started teaching, people with different pathologies came to me, and I was afraid of hurting them, or to do the "wrong thing". I then became fascinated by anatomy and started my journey with Blandine Calais Germain (France), Thomas Myers and Leslie Kaminoff (US) in 2013.

During the last 7 years, deepening my empirical knowledge of the body with personalities like Gil Hedley (Dissection and Fascia - US), Todd Garcia (Dissection-US), Robert Schleip (Fascia research in Germany), Julian Baker (Functional Fascia- UK) and Jaap Van Der Wall (Embryologist - NL) helped me to reconfigure the maps I first learned, extend my comprehension of the body to a much wider, connective, bio-tensengral and integrative way.

I am passionate about what makes us human, both physically and spiritually. Gil Hedley once said that it’s not the spirit that is in the body, as the spirit is way too large to be only contained in the body. I hold that to be true and I hope that we will have the chance to practice together to discover what fills that connective space between you and me.