The meridians or lines of energy that are described according to Traditional Chinese Medicine move through the fascial network.

   This is of major importance to those who work with acupressure or acupuncture because if there is fascial distortion then energy constriction or distortion will take place rendering treatments less effective than they could be.

   The advice here is to unwind the fascia first to remove constrictions and then use the acu-points to move energy. Those who practice myofascial release often find that a body that is free of fascial distortion will allow "Chi" to flow naturally through the meridians to where it is needed in the body.

The following details will further explain this phenomenon-

¡§The connective tissue and fascia form a mechanical continuum, extending throughout the animal body, even into the innermost parts of each cell. All the great systems of the body - the circulatory, the nervous system, the musculo-skeletal system, the digestive tract, the various organs - are ensheathed in connective tissue.

This matrix determines the overall shape of the organism as well as the detailed architecture of its parts. All movements, of the body as a whole, or of its smallest parts, are created by tensions carried through the connective tissue fabric. Each tension, each compression, each movement causes the crystalline lattices of the connective tissues to generate bioelectric signals that are precisely characteristic of those tensions, compressions, and movements.

The fabric is a semi conducting communication network that can convey the bioelectric signals between every part of the body and every other part. This communication network within the fascia is none other than the meridian system of traditional Oriental medicine, with its countless extensions into every part of the body. As these signals flow through the tissues, their bio-magnetic counterparts extend the stories they tell into the space around the body.

The mechanical, bioelectric, and bio-magnetic signals traveling though the connective tissue network, and through the space around the body, tell the various cells how to form and reform the tissue architecture in response to the tensions, compressions, and movements we make"

                                                                      From Energy Medicine by James Oschman

   Above describe some relationships between myofascial release, bio-energy, Chinese Meridian and anatomy. And myofascial release is energy release and balancing.

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