How Fascia Work and Daily Rotation Changed His Face: Posture, Skin and Eye Clarity | Jason Van Blerk | Be Well Moments

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0:10Let's talk through like your personal journey. We have four different images and you're the fifth one sat here so we can see the end result. What am I looking at here? Like this is your journey just by treating your fascia? Yes. Okay, so the first picture, so this is hard for anyone who is not watching on YouTube or on Spotify video. This is your first picture that was taken when? Six years ago. Six years ago. Okay, I'm going to let you describe your face here. So give the listeners an understanding of you six years ago. So six years ago, if you look at my face, my eyes are closer together. My forehead and my eyebrows are compressed.

0:52So they're actually closer. So everything is pulled inwards. You'll see my jaw at the bottom is pulled to the right. The angle of my nose is up. Oh, yeah. The coloration of my skin is yellow. And the emotions. If you look at the right eye and you look at the left eye, I look scared. I look like an old man that's defeated. What was happening at this point in your life? That's how I felt. I had followed society in the way that we were supposed to. I went to school. I had a good education. I made good money. I had a girlfriend. I lived downtown. I was a professional athlete. I had all the accolades.

1:36And then I sat with myself for a moment and I realized how stressed I was and how miserable I was. And this was working out. I was eating the way that, you know, typical nutrition says, you know, I was doing all of the right things that society had told me to do. And then I ended up there and I just felt defeated. I no longer wanted to follow the path that society had built for me. I was stressed. I was tired. You can clearly see I was not healthy, even though I was doing all the right things. And so that moment I had woken up. I had said to myself, I'm going to go a different path. I don't know what it looks like, but I'm going to change.

2:13and one year later is the next photo. Okay so for people listening your face has slightly changed your nose looks straighter. Yes and my eyes are more aligned and more open. Yeah less heavy. Less heavy the emotions changed a lot now I look like a little boy that's still a little bit scared and uncertain but the coloration of my skin is starting to come back you know when you look at somebody's skin you can see if there's a lot of toxic buildup behind it that's the first photo the second one you can start to see that that's starting to come out and the face is almost widening it's starting to open up and part of the reason for that is if you're compressed if you compress the head it creates a lot of tension i had a lot of concussions being a professional soccer player i had like six or seven concussions and it was starting to wear down on my head my head was starting to contract and so here you can start to see it expand and if we go to the third photo now the the biggest difference here is the eyes we if your colors of eye changed yes so if you look at the first photo the first photo my eyes are yellowish toxic if someone has yellow eyes there's something going on with their organs The second photo, my eyes start to open more.

3:33The third photo, my eyes are aligned and they're white. Yeah. That is when you know somebody has vitality again. Like when you can see someone's eyes, if you look somebody in the eyes, you can see the vitality that they have. And here also the angle of the nose is now shifted. So now my nose is going down, which means that my posture is changing, the alignment of the spine. because I was I had that head forward text neck posture my nose was actually looking up and if you go to the third photo here it starts to go down and then you got the last photo here yeah and the last one so these are all a year apart the last one so this is year number one two three and four it just it feels like in this photo like I had confidence in the third one and my eyes had starting to wake up but now the rest of my face from my the smile lines to the jaw alignment to the alignment of my eyes there's more space in my forehead the skin is now back to its natural state and it just you can see the emotion if you really look at the first the the first one and the last one is the biggest difference you could see the emotions that i'm holding it's almost like i've come into my purpose or myself and that's how i felt so people might be finding this quite hard to get their head around yes i'm gonna say obvious things here because people might be going well there was other things that he did he changed he did a different gym routine he you know left the city life and found himself more calmer so like what talk to me about the fascia side because this is what you're kind of putting this change down to this is the one thing that you did well not the one thing i'm not sure this is putting words into your mouth here um but what was it that worked with the fascia that you believe made this change like how does it change your face?

5:21Step number one was cleaning the chemicals out of my life. Because right now, we live in a world that's filled with chemicals. We've got non-native EMFs, we've got bleach, chlorine, fluoride, we've got glyphosate, herbicides, pesticides, you know, there's chemicals in our tap water. So depending where you are in the world, you're exposed to different chemicals. And if you are exposed to chemicals every single day, you're in a deficit. Like if I wake up and I'm in my bed sheets in my bed and my bed sheets have been cleaned with a detergent that's got hormonal disruptors in it, then I'm sleeping in that for eight hours.

5:57That's absorbing into the skin and into the blood within minutes. I'm at a deficit the moment I wake up. And so step number one for me from changing my life was really starting to realize that there were a lot of chemicals in my environment that I wasn't aware of. And so I cleaned those. The step number two was I moved my body through fascial maneuvers, through the fascia. And because the fascia holds the muscles, the bones, the tendons, the ligaments, and the organs, when I move a fascial restriction, I release emotions, I release tension, and the shape of the body begins to change. You start to restore the flow.

6:34As you can see, my skin started to change color. That's because before my skin and my body was so restricted, it was stagnant. In Chinese medicine, they used stagnant a lot. It wasn't flowing. So all the chemicals were trapped. It changed the coloration of my skin. So as I started to move my fascia, it started to move all of the chemicals and all of the stuff out of my system, restoring the flow, which helps with collagen building. It helps restructure the head, the face, the neck, the posture. And is that a daily movement that you do? Because I know in the pre-interview that we did for our subscribers, that you talked us through like one challenge to do this week.

7:10Is that involving the rotation ones that you taught us? Is there like a, do you, how, how many times a day do you do this for your fascia? Yeah. So fascia maneuvers is very simple, actually. It's rotating the body while you move and breathe. And the reason why we use rotation is because when you walk, you swing your arms, they're actually rotating. When you swing a bat, you're swinging, you're rotating everything. When you're in the fetal position or you hug yourself and crawl into a ball, you rotate everything. Even when we sit at a chair, we create rotation. So rotation is the language of the body.

7:44But if we look at traditional movement practices today, they're all straight. If I do a bicep curl, it's straight. If I stretch my hamstring, it's straight. And so everything that we're doing to take care of the body is very linear. What we found is if we rotate the body, like we did in the beginning there, and we breathe, that simulates the walking position. It simulates a swinging position, a position where we generate a lot of force, and it simulates being in the womb. And that rotated position is what unwinds the restrictions in the fascia. So we have a series of over 40, 50 movements that you can do on your own daily to unwind the tension in your body.

8:24But I like to keep it to like 15 minutes. If you do 15 minutes a day in a rotated position breathing, then it starts to unwind everything. thanks so much for listening to hear the full episode there's a link in the description