The Future of Medicine: How Energy, Fascia & Intuition Shape Healing

[@joanne.avison]

Some people have asked for information on the books mentioned in this podcast: in no particular order Carol Davis and I refer to Carol's book Patient Practitioner Interaction: An Experiential Manual for Developing the Art of Health Care; my newest book Myofascial Magic in Action and the chapter written by Helen Eadie, referencing Ian McGilchrist's work, James Oschmann Energy Medicine. Another book referred to is The Journey of the Universe by Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyne Tucker, The Rainbow and the Worm by Mae Wan Ho, Gerald Pollack (e.g. Cells Gels and the Engines of Life), Valerie Hunt (e.g. Infinite Mind, the science of human vibration), Donald Ingber (1998 paper in Scientific American on Tensegrity) Jean-Claude Guimberteau, John Sharkey and others mentioned in the podcast. (See chapters) - Hope that helps answer emails! 🙏

[@janmarsh5643]

How I loved this discourse. The new sense of being into a language we are just beginning to find words for. Oh my. How brave to be the pioneers into this experience. How wonderful to set sail into the daring. My heart is open to the wind capturing these images of possibilities hither to not explored. Here you have given words to the experiences I have moved through, trusting the wind in the present moment , a form of meditation. It is rare to be able to even share this with others who have not walked this path so this has been a comfort of confirmation that there is a consciousness taking us into a new paradigm of wholeness which is not exclusive for one but for the web of oneness. Your explanations have been mind blowing and I thank you with all my heart.♥️

[@joanne.avison]

@janmarsh5643 I thank YOU with all my heart for such a heart-felt response. I know Carol will be delighted to read this - as am I. Thank you for taking the time out to share. I deeply appreciate the sometimes-sense of professional isolation I get to see and share with other professionals - when their personal quest sits inside them, (sometimes undefined) - yet they "know" when they hear a similar resonance. Perhaps you are saying something similar in a different way - and I am grateful to you for saying it. 🙏❣

[@janmarsh5643]

@@joanne.avison what a joy that you have shared comfort and support through your words. I have been walking through the passage of awakening over the past few years having put aside my healing practice due to the need to recover from the most profound trauma of my life. However I have been seeking answers to my bewilderment and learnt and learning to listen to the inherent wisdom of my heart. Through meditation and journaling I am becoming alive not only to my soul and spirit but to my body. This has been a total surprise to me as I had not understood my lack of consciousness and unconnectedness to the physical reality . I am learning to love me as I am physically. It seemed so unimportant but the secrets of this embodiment have enabled me to access the wholeness of my spirit and emotion. This is real wholeness and your understanding talk confirms this. This is a blessed confirmation. Recently I have in meditation accessed the meaning of the fascia which is by the way not described in anatomy books, but I could see and experience the trillions of neurons lighting up as the body moved which gave a new meaning to the speed of light. We are beings of light lubricated by the serous fluid separating the fascial sheets to allow movement and the awareness of our location in space. I was so filled with joy that I became aware that the fascia is the expression of the cosmos in us, without beginning or ending , the circle of life, the alpha and omega. This experience has visited me again and again but you have given this meaning. Thank you so much. My apologies for this long reply but this has been so helpful.

[@StellarGuidancebySamantha]

What a relief to hear this conversation. I agree with and resonate so much with this. Carl Jung and I share the same birthday, and his energy has penetrated my life and awakened me to so much truth. I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease and Ehler's Danlos syndrome at age 50. That was after 35 years of seeking medical attention or answers that cost me thousands of dollars and copious time from my life. I've undergone so many "therapies" and surgeries to eliminate the pain I've experienced my whole life. I even have an electronic stimulator device implanted in my spine! It doesn't work. I'm 59 years young and 3 years ago, I STOPPED going to doctors. I stopped taking pills. I have been so grateful for the knowledge that has unfolded through my intuitive seeking. The veil is falling, and you ladies are helping to clear the vision on the lies we've been told. Thank you for being brave and for sharing as you still can on this platform. Your conversation is so insightful here. I will share it with others.

[@joanne.avison]

StellarGuidancebySamantha thank you for sharing your story and I send you light and grace for your speedy recovery. There are many in the medical field seeking to expand the vision to re-encompass the human being in the human body that was so segregated by the very laws of Western Medicine back in its early history. Personal Medicine and Narrative Medicine, such as Carol describes, are both growing fields. I have to own the fact that Western medicine has saved my life - however, it did so WITH me participating in the process - not at the exclusion of my experience. I had to take a stand for it, it wasn't easy - however the bridges are gradually forming and it is my prayer that they continue; courtesy of most of the wonderful doctors, anatomists and researchers I have had the good fortune to meet, work with and be treated by. EDS is so difficult to work with - and the only success I know comes through understanding fascia recoil - and the innate embryological blueprint. That's an energy field - as Carol so beautifully describes - and it cannot be reduced to genetic components. If those genetic components don't move then it isn't alive. That means the KINETICS are needed to express genetics - and from there on, it's unique to each beings' expression. Epigentics have to be in the mix - and I love how Carol returns to the great radiance of the original conceptus. It is always so wonderfully complex and never exclusive of intuition and instinct. Why would anyone want to exclude that? How can it be for human beings if it doesn't include their beingness? 🙏

[@susandoughty6726]

What a wonderful contribution to the ongoing effort to articulate the essence of who we are and how to best meet our patients in their movement toward balance. Thank you so much!

[@joanne.avison]

@susandoughty6726 thank you so much for your generous comment - I will pass it on to Carol - I know it will delight her! 🙏

[@LouRenaOatis]

Thank you very much

[@joanne.avison]

@@LouRenaOatis you are so welcome! 🙏😃

[@hawtenslaton4307]

Wow, what a lively discussion. Great to hear a professor of Physical Therapy expand beyond the Curriculum! 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠

[@joanne.avison]

@hawtenslaton4307 thank you for your comment - and isn't it wonderful that Carol Davis actually pioneered to bring that expansion INTO the Curriculum at such a highly regarded academic institution in a safe, professional way for the benefit of future patients - AND the practitioners in training. I so admire her for that! 🙏

[@hawtenslaton4307]

@@joanne.avison Yes, a pioneer and such a positive lady!

[@joanne.avison]

@@hawtenslaton4307 indeed! She is an inspiration to us all!!

[@marianmarshall7026]

Heartfelt thanks for this fantastically layered presentation! I have listened twice in two days, drinking in the nuance and thrilled by the aspects of ‘new to me’. This dynamic and expansive interchange has made a positive difference for me. And I expect for many others as well. Again, thanks for the inner and ongoing work you both do to make material like this available. Blessings

[@joanne.avison]

Wow!! THANK YOU so much @marianmarshall7026 for such a lovely comment!! I will take great delight in sharing this with Carol. Carol has been blown away by the feedback on this video - and I'm just so delighted we managed to meet and share together on this occasion. I really appreciate your blessing and send many blessings back to you Marian; how delightful. 🙏

[@kathrynparker983]

So grateful to hear all this. I received a masters in Social Work at Eastern Carolina University USA in the 90's. I was interested in mental health but I was so disgusted with the teaching! They had "mock" groups where we were all supposed to make up some scenario for the "therapist". So we were supposed to play act our mental illness to learn group therapy. What a waste! I have never used my degree - I think I felt like such an unskilled imposter I was afraid to do so.

[@joanne.avison]

So glad to hear you enjoyed it @kathrynparker983. Thank you for commenting 🙏

[@AlessandraMachado9]

so much to learn whit you thanks a lot for all of this magic world of fascias 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@joanne.avison]

Hi AlessandraMachado9 so glad it's useful - it is a huge (and steep) learning curve - and such a joy to share. Pioneers like Carol Davis have spent decades (and it really is decades) carving the path. Paul Thornley says "we've gathered the hindsight for you - to give you the foresight"...I like that! It feels like all the hard work and errors - can at least make a difference to serve others.🥰

[@lynnethrelfall2625]

❤Thank you! Grateful for this conversation😊

[@joanne.avison]

Me too! Glad you enjoyed it ❣🙏😄

[@DrCindyPTPhD]

Beautiful conversation! Thank you both! 🧡🙏🏻

[@joanne.avison]

Thank YOU for saying that DrCindyPTPhD - so glad you found it beautiful!! 🙏💛

[@kellyBorn-r4u]

So grateful for your voice, Carol! Many thanks to you for standing strong for true science…. Your courage will move our profession forward!

[@joanne.avison]

@kellyBorn-r4u I will pass your comment to Carol - and no doubt she will love to know you said that. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Physical Therapy (and Physiotherapy) and all aspects of medicine included such patient-centred work and awareness of intuition as standard! Not to mention the deep educational preparation, such that Carol offered in her programme? She is such a shining light and pioneer.

[@juliefinkelstein1674]

Wonderful to find you!

[@joanne.avison]

So glad you did @juliefinelstein1674 🙏😃

[@carmenroman7172]

Thank you

[@joanne.avison]

You are so welcome @carmenroman7172 - isn't Carol brilliant? 🙏

[@marycandullo526]

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[@joanne.avison]

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[@meganbaydorman5094]

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[@joanne.avison]

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[@LouRenaOatis]

where can I purchase your book.

[@joanne.avison]

LouRenaOatis - If you mean Carol's book - it is available on Amazon under this full title: (there is a new edition coming out in 2025) Patient Practitioner Interaction: An Experiential Manual for Developing the Art of Health Care: Authors: Carol M. Davis and Gina Maria Musolino. If you mean my book (it's Joanne writing) - then Yoga Fascia Anatomy and Movement, 2nd Edition is available there too! The new one; Myofascial Magic in Action is currently on pre-order, due in December 24 - both through Handspring Publishing or major book-sellers as above. Hope that they're all easy to find! 🙏