The Joanne Avison Podcast

By Joanne Avison

The Joanne Avison Podcast is a journey into Spiritual Science, examining the sacred geometry of human form and motion and how the Fascia Matrix changes all we thought we knew about human bodies. Re

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Number 1: Sacred Geometry: 12 Minutes That Changed the Way I Move
What can 12 minutes of gentle movement really change? For this final chapter of Sacred Geometry Series 2, Joanne does something a little different. After exploring the remarkable people and ideas that have shaped our understanding of living architecture, she shares a much more personal story. Following surgery after a diagnosis of breast cancer, Joanne came home unable to move her right arm and shoulder. Drawing on decades of work with fascia, anatomy and movement, she became her own case study, committing to just 12 minutes of micromovement a day. She expected that to fully restore her movement it would take at least 12 months. It took 12 weeks. This episode follows that experience through recovery, the support and grace that surrounded her, and the unexpected visit from Paul Thornley that led to the creation of Myofascial Magic in Action. It felt essential to them both to share the benefits of this work. It’s a story about subtle movement, fascia, recovery and restoring the natural spring we’re all designed to have… and what that can mean for you. 🎁 A SPECIAL GIFT FOR YOU Inspired by everything we’ve explored across these two Sacred Geometry series, Joanne has created a free guide for you, connecting the keys of all the Platonic solids explored in Series 1, a summary of the key protagonists in Series 2 and how all that geometry actually works in the living body, through five subtle practices you can explore for yourself. 👉 Get your free Sacred Geometry gift here! https://www.joanneavison.com/sacred-geometry-gift ✨ EXPLORE THE 5 R’s Explore the 5 R’s of micromovement sequencing Joanne mentions in this episode, by watching our special YouTube mini-series - complete with practical demonstrations - starting here: Rebound In Action: The Key to Moving Without Strain SIGN UP TO THE JOANNE AVISON NEWSLETTER Simply scroll down to ‘Stay Connected’ and pop in your details. We DON’T spam and we DO respect privacy! FOLLOWING ON YOUTUBE? Do join us! Start here MORE: My website - https://www.joanneavison.com/ My course - https://myofascialmagic.com/ My book: - https://amzn.to/3zF3SAS Instagram - joanneavison FREE ONLINE WEBINAR: Free Webinar - https://myofascialmagic.com/webinar-registration Podcast produced and edited by Megan Bay Dorman
August 28, 202626min
Number 2: Sacred Geometry: Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Seeing
What did Leonardo da Vinci see that the rest of the world missed? In the second episode of this new Sacred Geometry series, Joanne explores the extraordinary quality of attention that allowed Leonardo da Vinci to perceive the human body in a way that science would not begin to explain for another 500 years. Long before the language of fascia, tensegrity, or living architecture existed, Leonardo was asking different questions. Through meticulous observation, fearless curiosity, and an unwavering commitment to direct experience, he revealed patterns of proportion, movement, and organisation that continue to shape our understanding of the living body today. You'll discover:Why Leonardo began with seeing rather than theoryThe hidden geometric significance of the Vitruvian ManHow the body expresses multiple centres of organisationWhy sacred geometry is woven throughout living anatomyThe relationship between Leonardo's observations and modern fascia researchHow reductionist anatomy lost sight of the body's living architectureWhy genuine discovery begins with the courage to look differentlyMore than a historical figure, Leonardo becomes an invitation: to observe with fresh eyes, to question inherited assumptions, and to rediscover the remarkable intelligence already present within the living human body. This episode continues Joanne's exploration of the remarkable people whose insights have helped illuminate the living fascial matrix, the hidden geometry of nature, and what it truly means to live in a human body. Would you like to learn with me? Info here: 🌟 www.myofascialmagic.com/mmia-programme-info SIGN UP TO THE JOANNE AVISON NEWSLETTER Simply scroll down to ‘Stay Connected’ and pop in your details. We DON’T spam and we DO respect privacy! FOLLOWING ON YOUTUBE? Do join us! Start here MORE: My website - https://www.joanneavison.com/ My course - https://myofascialmagic.com/ My book: - https://amzn.to/3zF3SAS Instagram - joanneavison FREE ONLINE WEBINAR: Free Webinar - https://myofascialmagic.com/webinar-registration Podcast produced and edited by Megan Bay Dorman
July 17, 202624min
Number 3: Why I Stopped Saying “Feet Hip-Width Apart”
What if the way we’ve been taught to stand is getting in the way of how we’re designed to move? After the extraordinary response to last week’s personal episode, Joanne continues the conversation with something wonderfully practical - beginning with a sentence she used herself for decades: “Stand with your feet hip-width apart.” So why doesn’t she say it anymore? This episode is an invitation to look a little differently at the remarkable body you inhabit: one designed to wobble, recoil, adapt, recover and dance its way through life. Joanne explores the natural spring and intelligence already within us, and shares a simple micromovement you can try for yourself right away. You might discover something surprising about the way your body prefers to balance, turn and move! Because perhaps moving better for longer begins with listening more closely to the body we already have - and trusting a little more of its innate wisdom... *** If you haven’t collected Joanne’s free Sacred Geometry guide yet, it brings together both Sacred Geometry series, the geometry of the living body and five subtle practices for you to explore. Get your free guide here: https://www.joanneavison.com/sacred-geometry-gift And Joanne mentions Myofascial Magic In Action co-founder Paul Thornley in this episode. You can find Paul on Instagram at @paul.s.thornley SIGN UP TO THE JOANNE AVISON NEWSLETTER Simply scroll down to ‘Stay Connected’ and pop in your details. We DON’T spam and we DO respect privacy! FOLLOWING ON YOUTUBE? Do join us! Start here MORE: My website - https://www.joanneavison.com/ My course - https://myofascialmagic.com/ My book: - https://amzn.to/3zF3SAS Instagram - joanneavison FREE ONLINE WEBINAR: Free Webinar - https://myofascialmagic.com/webinar-registration Podcast produced and edited by Megan Bay Dorman
September 04, 202626min
Number 4: Sacred Geometry: John Sharkey and the Architecture of Continuity
What if continuity is even more fundamental than tensegrity? In this special episode of Sacred Geometry, Joanne is joined in person by clinical anatomist and exercise physiologist John Sharkey for a wide-ranging conversation about fascia, tensegrity and the living architecture of the human body. You might prefer to watch this episode on YouTube as there are a couple of brief references to a visual model (the 'Skwish') held up by Joanne and John. Together, they revisit the ideas explored throughout Series 2 - from Leonardo da Vinci and Kenneth Snelson to Buckminster Fuller, Tom Flemons and Donald Ingber - and ask where those discoveries take us now… John explores why fascia may be better understood as something that transcends the body's individual systems, how living geometry continually adapts through movement and time, and how no two bodies ever express that architecture in quite the same way. This fascinating conversation also covers fasciategrity, stochasticity, force transmission, the spiral architecture of the heart (!) and what decades of anatomical dissection continue to reveal about human form. It’s a conversation about continuity, curiosity and the questions still waiting to be asked, with plenty of stories from Joanne and John's years of working and teaching together. Subscribe to continue the journey. There’s one final episode of Series 2 still to come, and Joanne has something special waiting for you there. Links to some of John Sharkey's most recent papers: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/15/12/1924 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42458875/ SIGN UP TO THE JOANNE AVISON NEWSLETTER Simply scroll down to ‘Stay Connected’ and pop in your details. We DON’T spam and we DO respect privacy! FOLLOWING ON YOUTUBE? Do join us! Start here MORE: My website - https://www.joanneavison.com/ My course - https://myofascialmagic.com/ My book: - https://amzn.to/3zF3SAS Instagram - joanneavison FREE ONLINE WEBINAR: Free Webinar - https://myofascialmagic.com/webinar-registration Podcast produced and edited by Megan Bay Dorman
August 21, 202649min
Number 5: Sacred Geometry: Kenneth Snelson and the Missing Piece
What if the missing piece in understanding the human body was discovered by a sculptor? In this episode Joanne explores the extraordinary life and work of Kenneth Snelson, the artist whose remarkable discovery of floating compression transformed the way we understand structure, movement, and the living body. Working from curiosity rather than convention, Snelson built a simple sculpture that revealed a profound truth: living forms are not held together by stacked parts, but by a continuous relationship between tension and compression. His insight became the missing piece that helped shape modern ideas of tensegrity, fascia, and living architecture. You'll discover:Why Kenneth Snelson's X-Piece changed everythingThe difference between floating compression and tensegrityHow living bodies organise themselves differently from buildingsWhy weaving offers a powerful model for understanding fasciaHow the principles of living architecture appear throughout natureWhat Snelson's work reveals about movement, resilience, and human formWhy the patterns of physical forces matter more than isolated partsMore than the story of a sculptor, this is an invitation to see yourself differently. Kenneth Snelson's work reminds us that the human body is not a machine assembled from separate pieces, but a living, self-organising architecture whose intelligence has been quietly present all along. If this way of understanding the body resonates with you, and you'd like to explore it in depth, Joanne Avison and Paul Thornley teach these principles through their online programme, Myofascial Magic in Action (MMIA). This in-depth course brings together fascia, movement, anatomy, and Sacred Geometry to help practitioners, movers, and curious learners experience the living body in an entirely new way. 🌟 FIND OUT MORE HERE 🌟 SIGN UP TO THE JOANNE AVISON NEWSLETTER Simply scroll down to ‘Stay Connected’ and pop in your details. We DON’T spam and we DO respect privacy! FOLLOWING ON YOUTUBE? Do join us! Start here MORE: My website - https://www.joanneavison.com/ My course - https://myofascialmagic.com/ My book: - https://amzn.to/3zF3SAS Instagram - joanneavison FREE ONLINE WEBINAR: Free Webinar - https://myofascialmagic.com/webinar-registration Podcast produced and edited by Megan Bay Dorman
July 24, 202641min