Fascia Focussed Anatomy Labs

12/10/2026

WHAT IF YOU COULD EXPLORE THE SHOULDER AND ARM IN RELATION TO THE WHOLE BODY?

As a manual therapist or movement professional, you work with the body every day.

But how might your understanding change if you could explore the anatomical relationships between the shoulder, arm, fascia and deep core through direct observation and guided dissection?

Join us for a unique six-day fascia-focused dissection lab at the extraordinary Plastinarium in Guben, Germany.

The Shoulder, Arm and Their Fascia Arrangements to the Whole Body

📅 22–27 November 2026

This immersive experience offers the opportunity to investigate the shoulder and arm through a fascia-focused lens, exploring the continuity of fascial structures and their relationships with the wider body, including the arm’s connection to the deep core.

Rather than studying isolated structures alone, you’ll have the opportunity to observe anatomy directly, explore relationships between tissues, and deepen your understanding of structure, continuity and function.

Your course leaders:
Gary Carter · Jihan Adem · David Lesondak

📍 Plastinarium, Guben, Germany
🔥 Only a few spaces remain

Applications are still open.

If you’re ready to take your anatomical understanding beyond the textbook, this is a rare opportunity to immerse yourself in the study of fascia and the interconnected human body.

Discover more and apply at https://fasciaanatomylabs.com/courses/.

11/10/2026

From meeting FR:EIA in Berlin with a unique tour of KÖRPERWELTEN through to spending a week in Guben at the PLASTINARIUM - should you join us; you will be involved in not one but two the extraordinary Exhibitions in one week!

09/10/2026

What could change in your practice if you could see the relationships you feel beneath your hands?

Most anatomy education teaches us to identify structures: muscles, bones, organs, joints and tissues.

But the human body doesn't experience itself in isolated parts.

At Fascia Focused Anatomy Labs, we explore anatomy through direct dissection, movement enquiry, palpation and discussion, looking at the relationships, continuities and tissue planes that connect the body as a whole.

Our small-group labs take place at the Plastinarium in Guben, Germany, giving practitioners the rare opportunity to study human anatomy at close range and develop a deeper understanding of how structure, movement and function relate.

This matters because the more closely we can observe these relationships, the more informed our hands, our movement teaching and our clinical thinking can become.

Whether you work with movement, manual therapy, facial work, breath, posture or whole-body health, fascia-focused anatomical study can offer a different way of seeing the body and therefore a different way of working with it.

Upcoming Fascia Focused Anatomy Labs

🔹 The Shoulder, Arm and Their Fascia Arrangements to the Whole Body
22–27 November 2026 - ONLY A FEW PLACES LEFT!
Gary Carter · Jihan Adem · David Lesondak

Explore the shoulder and arm not as isolated regions, but in relationship with the wider body and its fascial continuities.

🔹 The Fascia Anatomy of the Face and Facial Ageing
23–28 May 2027
Gary Carter · Jihan Adem · Fiona Harlowe

Explore the layers, planes and relationships of facial tissues, and consider how facial anatomy relates to posture, breath and the wider body.

🔹 Eyesight & Posture: A Fascia Anatomy Lab
19–24 September 2027
Gary Carter · Jihan Adem · Peter Grunwald

Investigate the relationship between the eyes, skull, neck and whole-body posture through hands-on anatomical study and embodied enquiry.

🔹 The Anatomy of Breath and the Fascial Thorax
21–26 November 2027
Gary Carter · Jihan Adem · James Earls · Robert Schleip

Explore the anatomy of breathing, from the nasal passages through the thoracic cavity, and investigate how respiration, posture, movement and fascial relationships interact.

These aren't anatomy courses where you simply memorise more structures.
They are opportunities to look closer, question what you thought you knew and develop a more connected understanding of the human body.

If you're ready to take your anatomical understanding beyond the textbook and into direct experience, we'd love you to join us.

Applications are now open.
Find out more on https://fasciaanatomylabs.com/courses/

08/10/2026

I’ve gone down another one of my little research rabbit holes…

I teach about the tiny blood vessels running through bone — the transcortical vessels (TCVs) — and I’ve also become fascinated by how much more bone may be involved in our stress physiology than we once thought.

Bone isn’t simply structural. It can sense mechanical forces, communicate through the bloodstream, influence inflammation and participate in the stress response through molecules such as osteocalcin.

Then I came across a fascinating new study. Researchers compressed the shin bone in animals with brain injury and found that bone cells sensed the mechanical force through PIEZO1, changing signals in the bloodstream that appeared to reduce inflammation and support brain recovery.

And it made me wonder…

Could these things be connected?

TCVs. Mechanical loading. Bone cells. Osteocalcin. Cortisol. The bloodstream. The brain.

Perhaps they are all part of a much bigger conversation between bone, blood, brain and stress.

We absolutely can’t say that yet — the findings are from animal research, and the study didn’t establish a role for TCVs or cortisol.

But that’s what I love about science. Sometimes one new piece of research makes you look at something you’ve taught for years in a completely different way.

And it’s another reason I love exploring bone dynamics and their influence on movement — things that traditional anatomy and movement education often don’t fully capture.

MYOFASCIAL ANATOMY & MOVEMENT COURSE
Leeds
31 October 2026 – October 2027
LAST SPACES AVAILABLE
[email protected]

AND…

EXCLUSIVE FASCIA-FOCUSSED DISSECTION COURSE
Plastinarium, Germany
22–27 November 2026
With Gary Carter, Jihan Adem, Gus DaLaQuerra & special online guest David Lesondak

LAST SPACES AVAILABLE
[email protected]

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08/10/2026

I’ve gone down another one of my little research rabbit holes…

I teach about the tiny blood vessels that run through bone — the transcortical vessels (TCVs) — and I’ve also been fascinated by the emerging evidence that bone has a much bigger role in our stress physiology than we once thought. Bone isn’t just something that holds us up; it can communicate, respond to mechanical forces and even participate in the body’s stress response through things like osteocalcin. And there is evidence that bone can regulate cortisol locally too. (PubMed Central (PMC)⁠)

Then I came across this new study and it really stopped me. Researchers compressed the shin bone in animals with brain injury and found that the bone cells sensed the mechanical force through PIEZO1 and responded by changing signals in the bloodstream. Those signals appeared to help reduce inflammation and support recovery in the injured brain. (Nature⁠)

And now I’m wondering… could these things be connected?

The TCVs, the bone cells sensing mechanical load, the molecules travelling through the blood, osteocalcin and the stress response, perhaps even the way bone handles cortisol — could they all be parts of a much bigger conversation between bone, blood, brain and stress?

We certainly can’t say that yet. The new findings are still animal research, and the study didn’t establish that TCVs or cortisol are responsible for the effect. But that’s what I love about science: sometimes one new piece of research makes you look at something you’ve been teaching for years in a completely different way.

And this one has definitely made me continue to explore bone differently, along with the interesting bone dynamics that determine movement in a way anatomy and movement doesn’t teach.

Come and learn more at the upcoming MYOFASCIAL ANATOMY & MOVEMENT COURSE starting in LEEDS 31st OCTOBER 2026 to OCTOBER 2027
LAST SPACES LEFT [email protected]

AND THE EXCLUSIVE
FASCIA FOCUSSED DISSECTION COURSE
at the PLASTINARIUM, GERMANY
22-27 NOVEMBER 2026 with Gary Carter, Jihan Adem, Gus DaLaQuerra & special online guest David Lesondak
LAST SPACES AVAILABLE
contact [email protected]

Firmly pressing down on shin bones for just a few minutes every day drastically improved movement and cognition in mice and pigs one week after they had a traumatic brain injury. The intervention stimulates bone cells that are sensitive to physical force, causing them to release substances that promote good brain health.

“This is big news to me, as it reveals a previously underappreciated bone-brain communication system, and could potentially lead to new therapeutic approaches in the future,” says Kristian Franze at the Max Planck Center for Physics and Medicine in Germany, who wasn’t involved in the work.

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2591964-compressing-bones-releases-molecules-that-ease-traumatic-brain-injuries/

Image: JOSE CALVO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

07/10/2026

Are bones really separate?

Or are we simply describing them that way?

Look closely at the spaces between them.

Small.
Contained.
Specific.

Relationships that create changing pressures and rhythms throughout the body.
In dissection, we can follow these continuities and watch movement emerge between the bones.

For practitioners, this is where looking at anatomy in three dimensions can begin to change the questions we ask.

Rather than studying the shoulder and arm as a collection of individual structures, what happens when we explore the spaces, tissues and relationships that connect them?

The Shoulder, Arm and their Fascia Arrangements to the whole Body

📅 22–27 November 2026
📍 Plastinarium, Guben, Germany
👉 Applications are STILL OPEN - last few places available

Our upcoming six-day fascia-focused dissection lab explores the shoulder and arm in relation to the wider body, including the arm’s connection to the deep core.

Through direct observation and guided dissection, you’ll have the opportunity to explore structure, continuity and function and to investigate what lies between the structures as well as the structures themselves.

Led by Gary Carter · Jihan Adem · David Lesondak, the course is designed for practitioners interested in hands-on anatomical enquiry and a deeper understanding of the interconnected body.

What might you see when you stop looking at the bones as separate?

Find the full course information and application details on the Fascia Focused Anatomy Labs website:

https://fasciaanatomylabs.com/courses/

05/10/2026

Two bones… or something more?

Two structures.
One continuity.

The interface between pectoralis and deltoid reveals a beautifully textured relationship, and opens the door to a myofascial continuity rarely shown in conventional anatomy.

And then there’s this…

Two bones.
Nine bones between them.
One fascinating connection.

Come and find it.

What happens when you have the opportunity to move beyond the simplified diagrams and explore these relationships for yourself?

At our upcoming six-day fascia-focused dissection lab, we’ll explore the shoulder and arm not as isolated anatomical regions, but in relationship to the wider body.

The Shoulder, Arm and their Fascia Arrangements to the whole Body

📅 22–27 November 2026
📍 Plastinarium, Guben, Germany

Through direct observation and guided dissection, you'll explore the fascial arrangements of the shoulder and arm, including the arm’s connection to the deep core.

It’s an opportunity to slow down, look closely and investigate structure, continuity and function through a fascia-focused lens.

Led by Gary Carter · Jihan Adem · David Lesondak, the course is designed for practitioners interested in hands-on anatomical enquiry and discovering what becomes visible when we look beyond individual structures.

What connections might you discover?

Applications are NOW OPEN.

Find the full course information and application details on the Fascia Focused Anatomy Labs website:

https://fasciaanatomylabs.com/courses/

04/10/2026

What are your hands really feeling?

We never touch muscles ever. We reference them through these planes and textures of tissue always.

How skilled are your hands at understanding this?

At our fascia focussed dissection courses the revaluation of these textures will change your practice, treatments and teaching forever.

Dissection gives us an opportunity to look beyond the names we have learned and explore the tissues themselves, their planes, textures, relationships and continuities.

At Fascia Focused Anatomy Labs, we work directly with human anatomy through guided dissection, palpation, movement enquiry and discussion. It is an opportunity to slow down, look closely and develop a different understanding of what your hands encounter every time you work with a client.

Our small-group labs take place at the Plastinarium in Guben, Germany, the home of FR:EIA Fascia Revealed: Educating Interconnected Anatomy, the world’s first fascia-focused human body plastinate.

Upcoming labs:

🔹 The Shoulder, Arm and Their Fascia Arrangements to the Whole Body
22–27 November 2026
Gary Carter · Jihan Adem · David Lesondak

🔹 The Fascia Anatomy of the Face and Facial Ageing
23–28 May 2027
Gary Carter · Jihan Adem · Fiona Harlowe

🔹 Eyesight & Posture: A Fascia Anatomy Lab
19–24 September 2027
Gary Carter · Jihan Adem · Peter Grunwald

🔹 The Anatomy of Breath and the Fascial Thorax
21–26 November 2027
Gary Carter · Jihan Adem · James Earls · Robert Schleip

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN

If you are ready to look beyond isolated structures and develop your understanding of the tissues beneath your hands, we invite you to join us.

Find out more on our website: https://fasciaanatomylabs.com/courses/

03/10/2026

What if the anatomy you’ve been taught is only part of the map?

Look beyond individual muscles and structures.

Explore the relationships, continuities and tissue planes that can shape movement in ways we don’t always expect.

Learn to look differently.
Learn to feel differently.

For practitioners, anatomy is never just something we learn once. The more closely we look, the more there can be to discover.

Our upcoming six-day fascia-focused dissection lab offers the opportunity to explore the shoulder and arm beyond isolated structures, seeing how they relate to the wider body and to the fascial system as a whole.

The Shoulder, Arm and their Fascia Arrangements to the whole Body

📅 22–27 November 2026
📍 Plastinarium, Guben, Germany

Through direct observation and guided dissection, you'll explore structure, continuity and function, including the relationship between the arm and the deep core.

Led by Gary Carter · Jihan Adem · David Lesondak, this immersive experience is designed for practitioners who want to deepen their anatomical understanding through hands-on enquiry.

What could change in your understanding of the body when you move beyond the map and begin exploring the relationships for yourself?

👉 Applications are NOW OPEN

Find the full course information and application details on the Fascia Focused Anatomy Labs website:

https://fasciaanatomylabs.com/courses/

02/10/2026

For practitioners working with touch, movement and the human body, the tissues we work with can offer far more to explore than a conventional anatomical diagram might suggest.

The superficial fascia, also commonly understood as adipose tissue, adapts to the variety of forces, pressures and loads put through it.

This is a medium that can limit underlying movement patterns, adhesions and scar tissue has huge impact at this level. Superficial fascia is an important endocrine organ along with having a role in the body's ability to move to s parasympathetic response. Knowing how to work with this interesting tissue via touch and movement can make enormous differences to your clients and yourself.

At Fascia Focused Anatomy Labs, we explore human anatomy through direct dissection, fascia-focused enquiry, movement, palpation and close anatomical discussion.

Our small-group labs take place at the Plastinarium in Guben, Germany, home of the world-renowned BODYWORLDS exhibitions and the setting in which FR:EIA Fascia Revealed: Educating Interconnected Anatomy, the world’s first fascia-focused human body plastinate, was created.

Led by experienced dissectors and educators Gary Carter and Jihan Adem, together with guest faculty, our labs give practitioners the opportunity to study the human body directly, explore relationships between tissues and structures, and develop a deeper understanding of anatomy as an interconnected whole.

With no more than six people per table, there is time to slow down, observe closely, ask questions and explore anatomy in a way that can be meaningfully integrated into professional practice.

OUR UPCOMING LABS - APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN

🔬 The Shoulder, Arm and Their Fascia Arrangements to the Whole Body
22–27 November 2026
Gary Carter · Jihan Adem · David Lesondak

🔬 The Fascia Anatomy of the Face and Facial Ageing
23–28 May 2027
Gary Carter · Jihan Adem · Fiona Harlowe

🔬 Eyesight & Posture: A Fascia Anatomy Lab with Peter Grunwald of Eyebody
19–24 September 2027
Gary Carter · Jihan Adem · Peter Grunwald / EyeBody group

🔬 The Anatomy of Breath and the Fascial Thorax
21–26 November 2027
Gary Carter · Jihan Adem · James Earls · Robert Schleip

📍 Plastinarium, Guben, Germany
🔬 Small-group, fascia-focused dissection workshops
🧠 Anatomy · Fascia · Movement · Embodied enquiry

Could seeing the tissues for yourself change the way you understand the bodies you work with?

Learn more and apply via the Fascia Focused Anatomy Labs website: https://fasciaanatomylabs.com/courses/