Mucous the Body's Glue and Glide
Mucous the Body's Glue and Glide

Fascia in mostly mucosal.  Like egg whites, its gooey, slimy properties help muscles and organs glide easily as we move.   We see this in the fluid movements of youth when the body is hydrated and likely (hopefully) in movement most of the time.

With age, injury, and inflammation, the fascia dries out, becoming brittle, sticky, and clumpy.   It becomes more and more difficult to move moisture into the fascial cells.  The nerves that move around and through the fascia have more difficulty firing and the body loses the memory of movement.  If you can’t feel it, you can’t move it, if you can’t move it you can’t feel it. This is called sensory motor amnesia where the body forgets how to move in an easy, fluid way and maybe can’t move that part of the body at all.

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Karen Quinn
Remember everyone who loved you into being
Remember everyone who loved you into being

Sometimes, we have people in our lives who are themselves so wounded that they’ve forgotten or perhaps never learned how to love themselves. Maybe all we can do is to love them into being and hope that someday they will remember that feeling and reflect it inward.

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Karen Quinn
Diary of a Bush Fire
Diary of a Bush Fire

A sense of calm descends as I pass through the blue green canopy of gum trees lining the road on my way to Inglewood, a farm on the far side of the Blue Mountains in Australia. I’m coming home. Wallabies look up from their grazing as the car passes.

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Karen Quinnaustralia, bushfire
Ayurveda-Changing with the Seasons+Weight Loss
Ayurveda-Changing with the Seasons+Weight Loss

In Autumn, leaves fall from the trees as they dry and wither, cool mornings and nights begin and end each day. These elements of vata--cold, dry, light--begin to dominate the earth and our bodies. Noticing and adjusting our diet and habits to be in sync with the season keeps winter colds at bay.

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Karen Quinn