Healing lenses

I’ve been reading Anatomy Trains, a book on the myofascial meridians in the body. It aligns perfectly with the work that I am doing with both pilates and craniosacral. What especially resonated with me, though, is Meyers’ philosopy:

It is not our job to promote one technique over another, nor even to posit a mechanism for how any technique works. All therapeutic interventions, of whatever sort, are a conversation between two intelligent systems. It matters not a whit to the mayofascial meridians argument whether the mechanism of myofascial change is due to simple muscle relaxation, release of a trigger point, a change in the sol/gel chemistry of the ground substance, viscoelasticity among collagen fibers, resetting of the muscle spindles or Golgi tendon organs, a shift in energy or a change in attitude. (2)

This is exactly what I am getting at in bringing together many disparate techniques and methods.  There is no one method or technique which will work for everyone nor does the body care what the name or theory of the technique to which it responds is. It doesn’t matter HOW the body heals, but that it does heal.

Because body workers often come to the work through their own healing journey (including me), people often get very attached to whatever method worked for them and think that it is the best way to fully heal. Except that people are individuals and even though two people have the same injury, they will respond to treatment in totally different ways.  Besides being able to offer people a variety of techniques, part of the reason that I am pulling together three very different methods: physical training, fascial release and energy work is to have more lenses through which to understand the body, injury and healing.