Isn’t that the dream? No roller. No ball. No stick. But also: no pain and no guesswork.

This is what we do with fascia flossing, the technique created by Bon Crotzer.  This technique is also called pendiculation, which means we elongate whilst we contract, with the goal of healing our tissues.

The beauty of that technique is that we only need our body, right now. And the extra goodie is: pendiculation produces deep fascia work, where other fascia work (tools, gua sha etc.) work on the more superficial layers. We need both, but starting on the deep layers is very meaningful for profound tissue change.

Unlike what we’re told, it is not our muscles that hold our bones and posture; it is our fascia.

When we do deep fascia work, we release tensions in dense connective tissues, allowing the bones to stack together in our organic posture again, one we no longer need to hold consciously or with effort.

It’s a work of restoring our architectural integrity, even though that a bit of a mouthful.

Just as fascia demonstrates, in the flesh, that we are one and interconnected, our ocean out there does the exact same. It is the source of life.

At the Blue Club, we believe that healing in our connective tissues is very much connected to healing our connective currents, recovering the spark of life in our biodiversity and communities.

We call that Impact Wellness. 

Every time we move, our body creates electricity in the exact same way a lighter creates a spark. Our body is not just moving, it's powering itself.

This is thanks to the piezoelectric property of collagen, found not only in fascia but throughout our body. 

Every single movement creates mechanical pressure on our collagen, and since collagen is semi-crystalline, creates a tiny electrical signal, a micro-spark that travels through the tissues. This signal does real things: it tells cells to repair, to rehydrate the tissue, to lay down new collagen along the lines of stress etc.

So movement is not just mechanical, it is electrical. Every time we move, we are literally generating electricity inside our body, electricity that communicates, regenerates, and reorganizes living tissues.

Second, as we work our fascia lines or meridians, we deep cleanse the pathways where this energy moves, as an internal exfoliation would. That way, nutrients and oxygen can get in, and waste can get out

How do we know this? Recent embryology research is mind-boggling and I recommend you read Dr. Daniel Keown’s observations in The Spark in the Machine. As an embryologist and physician, he points out that an embryo’s development is not controlled by the brain, not by hormones and not by nerves in the first weeks, since there is initially no brain, not blood, and no nerves.

Instead, it is the fascial planes and tensions that guide the developing embryo. And these, incredibly, do not vanish after birth, but stay in our bodies. These planes become the anatomical equivalent of the meridian system. The fascial continuities that once oriented the embryo’s growth now function as communication, regulation, and repair pathways.

From this view, the meridians are not abstract lines imposed by Chinese medical tradition, but residual architectures of becoming, of how the body is formed and maintains its integrity. 

So, yes! By tending to our fascia, we’re in a way becoming our own healer. And certainly increasing by many folds the effect of all the energy work we can do on the side, be it Reiki, Acupuncture, sound baths or else. You can then do all this beautiful energy work which will propagate with “clean plumbing”.

The problem with chasing flexibility is that long passive stretching decreases our architectural integrity. Alongside a negative effect on our joints, overstretching produces wear and tear, which produces scar tissue, which produces in turn more stiffness! And sadly, more overstretching… as many then enter a pretty unhealthy cycle of overstretching (or a hot yoga membership!)  

The body needs stiffness and tension, in the right amount, to maintain integrity.
Most important is the capacity for our tissue to contract, not to elongate. Only if the tissue can contract, then it can build strength. The capacity to contract should be the success marker of every workout, not to get our leg to our nose.

In a nutshell, we want extraordinarily healthy tissues that have an ability to contract and we want to keep our joints safe.

Explain « Body Intelligence » & the link between Fascia and Traditional Chinese Medicine Meridians

By “Body Intelligence”, we mean what the Chinese Traditions called Qi, the life force. Whilst the Chinese may have hundreds of meanings attached to the word Qi, we are specifically talking about the body's innate ability to self-organize and self-heal.

This is now, with much excitement, demonstrated by embryology. In his book « The Spark in the Machine », Dr Daniel Keown shows that an embryo develops in the first few weeks of life and organizes from one cell to 20,000 cells, not through nerves (they don't exist yet), not through hormones (there is no blood vessels yet either), and also not through a brain (again early stage, there’s none of that.)

Instead, the embryo development happens through another intelligence that the Chinese called Qi that flows alongside Chinese Meridians, that the Western scientists now call Fascia.

Think of the early fascia as a continuous, fluid-filled web that holds the entire embryo together. Instead of letting cells just float around randomly, this web keeps everything connected. It creates the safe, unified space that allows different organs and muscles to form without losing touch with the rest of the body.

An embryo doesn't just grow from a blueprint; it literally shapes itself through physical tension. Early fascia distributes push-and-pull forces across the entire developing body, just like the strings on a tent. When one part moves or bends, the fascial web instantly pulls on neighboring cells, signaling them exactly where to go and how to shape themselves.

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