Where Is Fascia Located in the Body?
Not just tissue - it's tissue with memory, tension, adaptability, and communication
Western medicine and the centralized view treats the body like a set of isolated parts — organs go to one specialist. Joints to another. Brain to another. But fascia exposes the flaws in that model — instantly.
You can’t treat the liver without acknowledging its fascial tether to the diaphragm, spine and gut. You can’t fix the shoulder without understanding its myofascial connection to the pelvis and feet. You can’t optimize hormones without decompressing the fascia that surrounds the vagus nerve and adrenal glands.
Fascia Dismantles ‘Centralized Reductionism’
While most people believe that “muscles move bones” that’s actually a half-truth at best — because the real driver behind movement isn’t just muscle… its fascia.
“Muscles only work because fascia gives them shape, tension, and leverage.”
Fascia is low-key the architectural matrix that organizes:
Every muscle fiber
Distributes force across the entire body
Provides the ‘tension system’ that movement depends on
Without fascia:
Muscles would contract aimlessly
Bones would lose alignment
Movement would become inefficient and damaging
Fascia Is the Anatomical Evidence of Interconnectedness
If there were ever a structure in the human body that shattered reductionism on sight, it’s fascia.
Fascia is not just a tissue — it’s the living adapting architecture that weaves every system into a unified whole. It doesn’t just connect things physically as the western world likes to claim (a glue substance that sticks to your muscles) It literally communicates, coordinates, and governs how force, fluid, and signals move across the entire human system — if anatomy had a master interface — fascia is it.
The outdated and old school pretense that “muscles move bones” is a fragmented truth. Muscles only move bones because fascia gives them direction, continuity, and meaning — without fascia, muscle contraction would be random, bones wouldn’t know where to go, and joints wouldn't stay centered — so its safe to say that movement would collapse under its own chaos.
Believe it or not, fascia wraps every muscle fiber, bundle, organ, nerve, and vessel — it bridges what textbooks divide. It proves “biologically, mechanically, and electrically” that you cannot separate one system from another.
For instance:
That nagging foot pain? It could be originating from your hip or your shoulder — or that stiff neck? It could stem from a collapsed foot arch or your diaphragm — or that shallow breathing? It could be trapped in the fascial densification from years of emotional bracing (it is all connected, one way or another).
This is the core problem with a centralized and reductionistic point of view, which is the western approach to health, it tries to treat the body like a machine in compartmentalized & isolated parts — that’s so far from the truth that it leaves people suffering daily.
Yes, the body is mechanical — but its not that mechanical — its biointelligent and we have the neuromyofascial system to thank for this, it allows us to zoom out and see the sequences — to feel the link between structure and sensation, movement and memory, compression and emotion.
“Fascia isn’t in the body. Fascia is the body.”
Once you grasp the reality that it wraps and weaves every single thing in the human body — we can really appreciate and understand how it transmits force, conducts electricity, and regulates pressure.
Its sensitive, reactive, and memory-rich — its not just a tissue, its the master interface of structural, mechanical, neurological, and biochemical intelligence.
It’s Freaking Everywhere — And I Mean Literally Everywhere
It’s literally the body’s scaffolding, wiring, and sensing system all in one — its under the skin, it wraps the muscles, it weaves between and suspends organs, it lines the bones, connects into joints, wraps the brain and spinal cord, it holds the heart, the gut, the lungs, and supports every nerve, vessel, and lymphatic channel — it’s not just present in every system — it’s literally the entire connective intelligence that binds them into one unified living organism.
It’s not localized, hence why we can’t just swap things in and out as if it were a car — it’s not even remotely segmented.
It doesn’t follow textbook borders. It high-key disobeys specialization at its finest. You can’t escape it and won’t ever be able to either. You can’t isolate it. And you definitely can’t ignore it.
So to think you can fix the human body by dividing it into separate parts is like trying to fix a spiderweb by looking at one strand under a microscope — that’s not just stupid, that’s being systemically blind.
Fascia: The Antidote to Specialization Madness
Fascia doesn’t respect your categories as per the “centralized view” — it doesn’t give a shit about your departments, compartments or specialties — you are now forced to think of it as a systems designer — like a functional mover, like someone who actually understands how biology works in 3D, under pressure, and over time you will see how fascia works and has strong influences, such as:
Breathing affects the pelvis
Feet function affect the spine
Jaw placement affects the hips
Liver function affects the shoulder
Posture influences hormones
Diaphragm works with cognitive performance
That’s not “woo-woo” stuff — that’s force transmission + neurological input + fluid dynamics + fascial continuity — the truth?
Fascia is the anatomical proof that everything is connected.
Reductionism is the intellectual laziness that pretends it’s not — I’ll lay this little nugget down for you to do what you want with it:
“If your practitioner doesn’t understand fascia from the inside out, then they know jack shit about the body.”
Fascia Interacts With Every System — Call it the Master Regulator of Cellular Environment
While fascia is not found inside every cell, it influences every cell in the human body. A simple truth that flips the entire reductionistic model of biology on its head.
Again, to set the story straight: “Fascia is not passive. It’s not background anatomy either. It’s the intelligent connective interface that surrounds, informs, and mechanically regulates the entire cellular environment.”
Every cell in the human body is surrounded by:
A phospholipid membrane (built from fats — determining what enters and exits)
An extracellular matrix (ECM) — a gel-like mesh of collagen, water, glycoproteins, and signaling molecules
The ECM is where the magic happens. It doesn’t just hold cells in place, it informs them, it gives them context, it distinguishes mechanical load, it understands electromagnetic charge, and lastly it gives biochemical direction — understanding how fascia includes and integrates with the ECM is the game changer — specifically proving that fascia doesn’t just support the cell… but how it shapes it’s decisions!
How Does Fascia Influence Every Cell?
We’ve already talked about this in previous posts, but it all comes down to pressure. Remember when we talked about the cytoskeleton cells being tensegrity structures? Do you also remember when we talked about ‘Mechanotransduction’?
Let’s recap real quick:
Mechanotransduction works hand in hand with fascia, and its easier to see fascia as an antenna — picking up mechanical signals from movement, tension, pressure, or stretch and delivering them to the cell.
These signals are then transmitted from the ECM → cell membrane then → cytoskeleton and then it ultimately influences the nucleus — where the gene expression occurs.
In short: fascia can trigger or suppress genes based on how you move, breathe, compress, or decompress your body
This is why posture, mechanics, and structured movement aren’t just about flexibility, fitness, aesthetics, etc., — they are forms of biological communication that affect everything from:
Healing
Metabolism
Inflammation
Regeneration
Now lets get even deeper real quick…
During development, fascia doesn’t just sit back and let the body grow randomly, hence the uniform of humans around the world — Morphogenesis provides the tensional guidance system that tells stem cells where to go, what to become, and how to organize into tissues, organs, and systems — yeah, we went deep with the blueprint.
Fascial tension fields shape how the human form emerges — that network gives structure to the embryo before bone or muscle even exist — its legitimately the architectural blueprint of morphogenesis —every tissue is organized through mechanical signaling
“The body is not built around fascia. The body is built through it.”
I think its better to say that fascia is the web that not only stabilizes but also ensures that every part of the body receives and shares information — it allows for independent function within a unified whole — precision without isolation, movement without disconnection.
The Missing Plug: Mechanotransduction
I’d call this the modern day health-link that everyone is trying to understand, I’ve referred to it in the past as “Bridging the gap between your performance and your lifestyle” — and in scientific terms it’s referred as ‘Mechanotransduction’ — in the short, this is how fascia speaks to your cells.
If you’ve been following and listening to me for a while, then you know that I always ask how are you “stretching your fibrous net” — in a dumb way or is it in a smart way? Because this is what it is:
You move → fascia stretches → cells and tissues deform → channels open up → messages sent back to the neural net → proteins are triggered → tissue regenerates.
Now the trip is this… are your movements sending positive regenerative commands? And do you have organized fascia?
Because disorganized fascia is going to send noisy signals, adaptations are going to be confused, inflammation stays rather high, and that’s when hormonal rhythms are disrupted — and this is why I say the industry is missing the plot and the entire objective with what ‘Health and Fitness’ is all about. It’s supposed to be focused entirely on ‘Wellbeing and Longevity’.
So when I say having organized fascia is going to help send clear cut signals, healing is going to be rapid compared to what you previously experienced, and how cellular energy begins to restore like never before— remember if you system is in threat every once in a while, that’s okay! But constantly and your body forgets what repair and restore is all about.
Fascia Influences Everything Because It Surrounds Everything
Even so-called “independent cells” — like blood cells, immune cells, and hormones — are affected by the quality of the fascial environment they travel through, imagine that.. as in:
The hydration of fascial tunnels
The density or restriction of surrounding tissues
The tone and frequency of mechanical inputs
Fascia determines:
What the cell feels
How the cell behaves
Whether signals are received or distorted
Whether inflammation resolves or persists
Whether hormones and nutrients reach the right place at the right time
So when I state and try to explain how its in every system, I am talking about:
Musculoskeletal System
Nervous System
Circulatory System
Lymphatic System
Digestive System
Respiratory System
Endocrine System
Immune System
Integumentary System (Skin)
It makes a little bit more sense when you keep the neuromyofascial system as the primary everything in the human body. Remember if we go back a few sub stacks — the body doesn’t run just on chemicals, but rather electricity — and plugging it all back into the mix — the body is triggered by mechanical pressure — so, yeah, what are you pressuring your system to respond to?
Pressure = Electricity = Communication
Look, the thing is this, every movement, every breath, every postural shift, or stretch that creates pressure in the fascial network is going to perceive that pressure as a signal — it’s not just some physical thing you feel and that’s that — it becomes electrical.
This is referred back to the “Piezoelectric Effect” — remember, we’ve also gone over this as well — now, when fascia is mechanically deformed (compressed, stretched, loaded), it generates a small electrical charge — that charge is what stimulates nearby cells, creating a wave of biological signaling:
Ion Channels open
Calcium enters the cell
Protein synthesis is triggered
Gene expression shifts
Hormones respond
Inflammation modulates
Regeneration begins
I’ll simplify it a little more for you:
Force creates pressure
Pressure creates voltage
Voltage creates communication
Communication creates adaptation
And this practically sums up why I say that fascia isn’t just a connector, and that it’s much more than that — it’s the medium for mechanical-electrical translation — meaning your nervous system isn’t waiting around, its listening to pressure and that pressure travels faster and more intelligently through fascia than through blood or diffusion.
The Body Listens Through Tension and Frequency
To think that everything is in isolated blobs is a lack of respect to the incredibly intelligent system that allows us to live life — everything that happens in the human body is coming from a living matrix — the fascia + ECM — that senses and delivers real-time updates based on:
How much pressure is applied
Where the force is coming from
Where the signal is sharp, slow, rhythmic, or chaotic
It’s like we all think that we’re just some big bowl of chemical soup but really we are just a mechanical-electrical resonance chamber and fascia is the skin of that intelligence.
I hope that we are able to move forward and say that we are somewhat done with the reductionistic model — and that the future of our health, movement, and performance (recovery) isn’t about isolating parts, however, more about restoring the interface that makes you whole.
Fascia is the interface. Train it. Hydrate it. Respect it. And your biology will respond with intelligence — not confusion.
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If this hit you on a cellular level — hence making some logical sense, its most probably because your body already knows what your mind is just remembering. This isn’t for you to start training harder or saying fuck it — this is start understanding that we have the ability to start remodeling our living matrix.
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