The Fascia Guide

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 episode: Axel Bohlin, Ivar Bohlin and Richard Stevens

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 of the season, the conversation turns to faith, hope, and love, and what these timeless qualities mean in a modern context. What practical significance do these concepts have in today’s world — both in the body and beyond it? Participants in this episode: Axel Bohlin and Per Johansson.

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 combination of clinical depth, curiosity, and openness. In this conversation, he shares his fascination with fascia, why the subject has captured his attention, and why he believes holistic health will become increasingly important in modern medicine. Together, we explore how fascia research is reshaping clinical understanding, and how a more holistic perspective may influence the future of healthcare. Participants in this episode: Axel Bohlin, Per Johansson, Hans Bohlin, and special guest Dr. Hiten Patel.

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 deeply to what is happening inside. Can imagining how healing unfolds actually support the body’s ability to heal? Participants in this episode: Axel Bohlin and Per Johansson.

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 knows” without needing a recipe. The conversation also touches on deeper principles that guide life, such as the idea that growth often comes with pain – a truth that applies to bodies, nature, and human development alike. This episode invites reflection on how we learn, what we trust, and how fascia might help us reconnect with a more intuitive, grounded kind of knowing. Participants in this episode: Axel Bohlin and Per Johansson.

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 behind fascia, and how this connective tissue might be the key to understanding not only pain and movement, but also health and life itself. The discussion also touches on how fascia receives and relieves pressure – and how our thoughts and emotions are deeply connected to our physical body. Participants in this episode: Axel Bohlin and Per Johansson.

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 alignment, improve circulation, and even reverse the effects of cellular aging. Together with Axel and Hans, she explores the intimate link between breath, emotion, and tissue — revealing how stored trauma and stagnation in the body can be released through conscious connection and decompression. An episode that bridges science and self-healing — offering a practical pathway toward freedom, flow, and vitality. Participants in this episode: Axel Bohlin, Hans Bohlin, and Deanna Hansen.

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 what fascia really is, how the body can be understood as a self-organizing complex system, and why our views on medicine, science, and consciousness may need to change at the deepest level. We talk about the body’s boundaries, energy flows, electromagnetic fields, quantum physics, relationships, and how consciousness may be much more than just a product of the brain. Theise explains why fascia can be seen as an interface connecting the body’s different levels — and why complementarity, rather than opposition, is the key to understanding both the body and the world. An episode that touches both heart and mind — and perhaps something even greater. Participants in this episode: Axel Bohlin, Hans Bohlin, and Neil Theise.

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 understand life. Pollack shares his journey from studying muscle contraction to discovering exclusion zone water — a fourth phase of water that carries an electrical charge, responds to infrared light, and may be crucial for cell function, health, and even technological innovation. We discuss water’s role in memory, energy, cancer, and why young minds often see what established science overlooks. An episode that challenges, inspires, and may forever change the way you see both the body and the future. Participants in this episode: Axel Bohlin, Hans Bohlin, and Gerald Pollack.

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 ability to heal Why vitamin C is the body’s most important molecule for restoring health How to reduce the toxic load that weakens our immune system The possibility of reactivating the body’s own vitamin C production If Dr. Levy’s research is correct, it could change the way we understand health — and point toward a future where more people can heal themselves in entirely new ways. 🎧 Listen and gain a new understanding of energy, inflammation, and long-term health. Participants in this episode: Axel Bohlin, Hans Bohlin, and Thomas Levy.

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 of the human body? Through Jean-Claude Guimberteau’s personal journey, we are taken into a fascinating world where cells move, threads connect, and colors pulse. It’s like watching a film in which the main character suddenly realizes that everything he’s learned is a simplification of a far more complex and living reality. What does it mean for us when we begin to understand that the body is not static but in constant transformation? The interview gives us a unique perspective on how the living body’s reality differs from traditional anatomical models—and how this new understanding could change the way we think about health, disease, and healing. Is it time to let go of the old models and start seeing the body as it truly is? Participants in this episode are Axel Bohlin, Hans Bohlin, and Jean-Claude Guimberteau.

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 relates to ordinary people and everyday life.

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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 about the LIVING body is very humbling. At the same time, the fact that it is crucial to understand YOUR own body, and that factors like your own experiences, thoughts and feelings are important, makes it empowering. What would happen if people in general become more humble AND more empowered? 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. In this episode you will hear Hans Bohlin, innovator and fascia expert, Per Johansson, doctor of human ecology and historian of science and ideas, and Axel Bohlin, founder & editor of The Fascia Guide.

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 Fascia is a new paradigm, a new perspective? How do we learn anything for that matter?   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. In this episode you will hear Hans Bohlin, innovator and fascia expert, Per Johansson, doctor of human ecology and historian of science and ideas, and Axel Bohlin, founder & editor of The Fascia Guide.

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 what it means to be alive. In this episode you will hear Hans Bohlin, innovator and fascia expert, Per Johansson, doctor of human ecology and historian of science and ideas, and Axel Bohlin, founder & editor of The Fascia Guide.

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 multicellular organisms, animals, plants, fungi, protists or bacteria. Flow is essential, it is life - and somehow, flow is also something we find terribly hard to understand. 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. In this episode you will hear Hans Bohlin, innovator and fascia expert, Per Johansson, doctor of human ecology and historian of science and ideas, and Axel Bohlin, founder & editor of The Fascia Guide.

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 with order and control? 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. In this episode you will hear Hans Bohlin, innovator and fascia expert, Per Johansson, doctor of human ecology and historian of science and ideas, and Axel Bohlin, founder & editor of The Fascia Guide.

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? 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. In this episode you will hear Hans Bohlin, innovator and fascia expert, Per Johansson, doctor of human ecology and historian of science and ideas, and Axel Bohlin, founder & editor of The Fascia Guide.

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, very few people know what fascia is, especially if you compare it with other new research fields like the microbiome, which is much more well known Is it something about the subject itself that is hard for us to understand? Why is Fascia not mainstream? 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. In this episode you will hear Hans Bohlin, innovator and fascia expert, Per Johansson, doctor of human ecology and historian of science and ideas, and Axel Bohlin, founder & editor of The Fascia Guide.