The Fascia Guide
The Fascia Guide is a podcast dedicated to exploring the recent scientific breakthroughs surrounding fascia — the body's largest organ, a continuous network of connective tissue that surrounds muscles, organs, and cells. The show breaks down complex research into simple concepts, discussing how these new insights are changing our understanding of health, pain, and human movement. Alongside hosts Axel Bohlin, Hans Bohlin, and Per Johansson, listeners learn about the philosophy behind the science, practical lifestyle applications, and the little habits that can improve well-being. It offers a fresh perspective on the living body, bridging scientific knowledge with everyday experience.
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24. When You Dare to Put Research Into Practice -Ivar Bohlin, Hans Bohlin, Mareike Claussen & Beate Maul
Somewhere right now, someone is in pain that could already be eased. On average it takes seventeen years for research to reach the people who need it. Most keep suffering in that gap.
Recorded live at the Swedish Fascia Convention - The Living Body, Uppsala, June 2025. Ivar Bohlin, Hans Bohlin and doctors Mareike Claussen and Beate Maul on what happens when you stop letting research sit on the pag
23. When No One Understands | Neil Theise, Sue Adstrum, Sven Roman & Axel Bohlin
If you have ever been the only person in the room who understood why fascia matters, this one is for you.
Four people who each saw something before others did, and kept going when no one understood. Recorded live at the Swedish Fascia Convention - The Living Body, Uppsala, June 2025. Host Axel Bohlin talks with pathologist Neil Theise, physiotherapist and researcher Sue Adstrum, and physician Sve
22. The Living Body: Richard Stevens on Fascia, Flow, and Finding New Paths in Health
In this episode, we talk with Australian osteopath Richard Stevens about his journey into fascia treatment, what led him from Melbourne to Swedish Fascia Convention, and how a new approach to health can transform both body and mind.
From treating horses to helping people breathe for the first time in years - Richard shares how fascia and flow are the future of well-being.
Participants in this epis
21. The Fascia Guide Live - Christmas Special
The episode was first published on The Fascia Guide LIVE YouTube channel on December 18, 2024.
In this Christmas Special, Axel Bohlin and Per Johansson explore a deeper question: How important is belief when it comes to healing?
For both the one who treats and the one who receives treatment, belief, trust, and inner conviction may play a far greater role than we usually acknowledge.
In the spirit
20. The Fascia Guide Live with Dr Hiten Patel
The episode was first published on The Fascia Guide LIVE YouTube channel on December 12, 2024.
In this special episode, we speak with Dr. Hiten Patel, a highly experienced senior physician who reached out after watching, reading, and listening to everything we had published.
With a long background in advancing minimally invasive surgery across major medical institutions, Dr. Patel brings a rare co
19. The Fascia Guide Live - Imagination
The episode was first published on The Fascia Guide Live YouTube channel on November 27, 2024.
In this episode, Axel Bohlin and Per Johansson explore the power of imagination and how our inner images shape the way we understand the body, fascia, and life itself.
They talk about how imagination can make the understanding of the body easier, and how visualizing healing may help us connect more deepl
18. The Fascia Guide Live - How we understand things
This episode is a re-release of The Fascia Guide LIVE – a livestreamed conversation recorded on November 20, 2024.
In this episode, we dive into the foundations of knowledge and understanding – and how they shape the way we relate to fascia, the body, and life itself.
We explore the difference between theoretical knowledge and embodied understanding – the kind you find in a skilled chef who “just
17. The Fascia Guide Live - A conversation about Fascia = a conversation about everything
This episode is a re-release of The Fascia Guide LIVE – a livestreamed conversation where we open up a free-form format to explore what fascia really is, and why it matters.
Originally recorded on November 13, 2024, this conversation sets the tone for our ongoing journey: curious, open-minded, and grounded in both experience and emerging science.
We talk about the living body, the principles behin
16. Deanna Hansen: Fascia decompression and the power to heal
The episode was first published on The Fascia Guide YouTube channel on February 5, 2025.
In this inspiring episode, we meet Deanna Hansen — founder of Block Therapy™ and a pioneer in the field of fascia decompression for physical and emotional transformation.
With more than 20 years of hands-on clinical experience, Deanna shares how releasing fascia tension can relieve chronic pain, restore alignm
15. Dr. Neil Theise on fascia, complexity, and the nature of consciousness
The episode was first published on the Swedish podcast Fasciaguiden on June 5, 2025.
In this thought-provoking conversation, we meet Dr. Neil Theise — liver pathologist, fascia researcher, and author of Notes on Complexity.
This is more than an interview; it’s a journey through science, philosophy, and the very structure of life itself. Together with Axel, Hans, and Per Johansson, Theise explores
14. Dr. Gerald Pollack on the fourth phase of water – and its role in memory, energy, and cancer
The episode was first published on the Swedish podcast Fasciaguiden on June 4, 2025.
In this unique episode, we meet Professor Gerald Pollack — one of the world’s most influential researchers in water science. Together with Axel and Hans, we dive into the mysteries of structured water, the inner politics of science, and why groundbreaking ideas often meet resistance even when they redefine how we
13. Dr. Thomas Levy: “All disease is caused by oxidative stress”
The episode was first published on the Swedish podcast Fasciaguiden on May 27, 2025.
What if every chronic disease actually stems from the same root cause — the loss of electrons?
In this eye-opening episode, we interview cardiologist and researcher Dr. Thomas Levy, who argues that oxidative stress is the common denominator behind all disease.
We talk about:
How oxidative stress affects the body’s
12. How seeing the living body changes everything we thought we knew – with Jean-Claude Guimberteau, MD
The episode was first published on the Swedish podcast Fasciaguiden on May 26, 2025.
In this episode, we meet the French surgeon Jean-Claude Guimberteau, who has spent more than 30 years filming the living body. What did he discover when he first realized that reality didn’t match what the textbooks described? And why do his discoveries have the potential to revolutionize our entire understanding
11. How can we understand Fascia & our bodies in a simple way? Special guest Sue Adstrum, PhD
Fascia research in all its glory, but how do you present it so that ordinary people understand it, gets excited and start realizing the potential benefits of understanding how the body works?
Together with Sue Adstrum, PhD-qualified anatomist & author of the Living Wetsuit, we discuss how Fascia as a subject could help us bridge the gap between research, practical application and how it relate
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10. What happens when people discover Fascia?
What happens when you discover that things are not as you thought?
Fascia and the living body starts as a fascinating subject, new research, a new organ and new insights. But how does it affect you when you then realize that it goes much deeper, that it is a fundamental change in how you understand wholeness and separation, relations and flow.
The realization that we in fact know so very little ab
09. What does it take to understand Fascia & the living body?
For many researchers, health professionals and people in general the understanding of what Fascia is and how it works has completely challenged the whole way we understand the body and what it means to be alive.
So... where does that put us? How do we start understanding the living body? What does it take in terms of skills, perspective, ways of thinking and doing.
What does it even mean that Fasc
08. What is knowledge about the body in a simple way
The purpose of The Fascia Guide is to give people knowledge about the body in a simple way.
What does that mean exactly? What is knowledge and where is knowledge? How do we understand all the complexity that is the living body in a simple way?
What does it even mean to know something?
The Fascia Guide is a podcast about the living body, about new research and a new perspective on health, pain and
07. What is flow
Fascia as a flow is a new way of understanding the body and explaining the body’s function.
All that lives has a flow. Each living cell or organism has a flow of water, energies, particles, molecules, light, sound, vibrations, etc.
Each living cell has a metabolism which requires a flow into the cell, a flow within the cell and a flow out of the cell. This applies to unicellular as well as multice
06. Why is it so hard for Fascia to become mainstream?
What happens when you discover something that makes you rethink everything you knew? Fascia research forces as to look at the whole and not just the parts, and in some ways we need to start from scratch. That in itself is challenging, but it is even worse when videos of the living body like "Strolling under the skin" shows how an organized chaos.
Is there a place for fascia in a culture obsessed w
05. Why are we thinking about the body the way we do?
A living body is not the same thing as a dead body… but we pretend they are when we study anatomy.
Our entire understanding of the body is based on studies of dead bodies, dissected bodies, and bodies treated as objects.
But is your body really an object? Is the body something you have or is it in fact something you are?
Why are we thinking like this - and have we always been thinking like this?
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04. Why is Fascia not mainstream?
Fascia research has sparked a wildfire of new insights that are challenging conventional belief about how the living body works.
In the last 15-20 years thousands of high quality research articles have been published by renowned researchers, from high ranking institutions.
Practical applications of this research indicates promising future solutions to a vast number of common health issues
Still, v
03. What does Fascia do?
Understanding the living body is quite a complex thing - but there is a simple way to understand the function of the body by understanding Fascia.
In simple terms, Fascia helps the body to load and unload pressure. How does this happen? What is pressure? ... and how can you use this knowledge to improve your lifestyle, increase your well-being and learn to handle different kinds of pressure like s
02. What is Fascia?
It might be a simple question, but it literally takes hours to answer it.
Fascia is the connective tissue that encapsulates everything in the body, from muscles and skeleton, to organs and cell.
It’s also the fluid flow that moves between all the cells and the way our body communicates.
It’s also a function that absorbs the pressure we’re exposed to and a way of storing memories, thoughts and feel
01. Why Fascia?
The Fascia Guide is a podcast about the living body, about new research and a new perspective on health, pain and what it means to be alive.
There is an ongoing global revolution in the anatomical research field, profoundly changing the way we look at the human body.
The reason? Fascia, a network of connective tissue with no beginning and no end, encapsulating everything in the body, from muscles
The Fascia Guide: About the living body, new research & a new perspective on health & what it means to be alive
The Fascia Guide is a podcast about the living body, about new research and a new perspective on health, pain and what it means to be alive.
There is an ongoing global revolution in the anatomical research field, profoundly changing the way we look at the human body.
The reason? Fascia, a network of connective tissue with no beginning and no end, encapsulating everything in the body, from muscles
