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

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How can changes in fascia and daily movement influence the face and overall wellbeing? This clip explores a four-year journey shown through photos, highlighting shifts in facial alignment, skin tone and emotional expression as he adjusted lifestyle habits. This discussion focuses on reducing everyday chemical exposure, addressing past injuries, and using rotational fascia movements to ease tension and restore flow. He also explains how posture, breathing and restricted fascia can affect the eyes, jaw, and complexion.

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Welcome to Live Well Be Well, a show to help high performers
improve their health and well-being.
Let's talk through like your personal journey.
We have 4 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 OK

(00:23):
so the first picture 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.
OK, I'm going to let you describe your face here.
Yeah. So give me give the listeners an
understanding of you 6 years ago.

(00:44):
So six years ago, if you look atmy face, my eyes are closer
together. My forehead and my eyebrows are
compressed, so 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, the

(01:05):
coloration of my skin is yellow and the emotions.
If you look at the right eye andyou look at the left eye, I look
scared. I look, I look like a an old man
that's defeated. What was happening in your at
this point in your? Life, that's how I felt.
I, you know, I had, I had followed society in the way that

(01:27):
we were supposed to. You know, 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.
And then I sat with myself for amoment and I realized how
stressed I was and how miserableI 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

(01:48):
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 thepath that society had built for
me. I was, 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

(02:09):
going to go a different path. I don't know what it looks like,
but I'm going to change. And one year later, so this is
the next photo. OK, so for people listening,
your face has slightly changed how you're trying.
Your nose looks straighter, yes.And my eyes are more aligned and
more open, yeah. Less heavy.

(02:30):
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 build up
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.

(02:50):
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 6 or 7 concussions
and it was starting to wear downon my head.
My head was starting to contract.
And so here you can start to seeit expand.

(03:11):
And if we go to the third photo now, the the biggest difference
here is the eyes. We.
If your colors of I 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.

(03:33):
The 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 my nose is going down,which means that my posture is

(03:56):
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 photohere, 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 your number 123 and 4.

(04:18):
It just, it feels like in this photo, like I had confidence in
the third one and my eyes had started to wake up.
But now the rest of my face frommy, the smile lines to the jaw
alignment to the alignment of myeyes, there's more space in my
forehead. The skin is now back to its
natural state and it just you can see the emotion.

(04:40):
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. I'm going to 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.

(05:01):
He, you know, left the city lifeand found himself more calmer.
So like what Talk, 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, but
what was it that worked with thefascia that you believe made
this change? Like how does it change your
face? Step number one was cleaning the

(05:23):
chemicals out of my life becauseright now we live in a world
that's filled with chemicals. We've got non-native EMF's,
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

(05:45):
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 8 hours.
That's absorbing into the skin and into the blood within
minutes. I'm in a deficit the moment I
wake up. And so step number one for me of

(06:05):
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 2 was I moved mybody through fascia, maneuvers
the through the fascia and because the fascia holds the
muscles, the bones, the tendons,the ligaments in the organs,
when I move a fascia restriction, I release emotions,

(06:28):
I release tension, and the shapeof the body begins to change.
You start to restore the flow. As 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 to stagnant a lot.
It wasn't flowing, so all the chemicals were trapped.
It changed the coloration of my skin.

(06:49):
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 in the preinterview that we did for our
subscribers that you've talked us through like one challenge to

(07:09):
do this week is that involving the rotation ones that you
taught us, is there like a 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 youmove and breathe.
And the reason why we use rotation is because when you
walk, you swing your arms, they're actually rotating.

(07:30):
When you swing a bat, you're swinging, you're rotating
everything. When you're in the fetal
position or you hug yourself andcrawl into a ball, you rotate
everything. Even when we sit at a chair, we
create rotation. So rotation is the language of
the body. But 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.

(07:53):
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 positionof 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

(08:14):
the fascia. So we have a series of over 4050
movements that you can do on your own daily to unwind the
tension in your body. But I like to keep it to like 15
minutes. If you do 15 minutes a day in a
rotated position breathing, thenit starts to unwind everything.
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