The Joanne Avison Podcast

What if the geometry of the cosmos is also written within you? Following the extraordinary response to the first Sacred Geometry series, Joanne Avison returns to go deeper. This time, the journey is about the remarkable people who saw what others missed: the hidden patterns, living intelligence, and sacred architecture of the human body. From Leonardo da Vinci to Kenneth Snelson, Buckminster Fulle...

What if the work you're doing today actually began long before you knew its name? In this concluding episode of Thank You For Having Me , Joanne reflects on the hidden threads that shaped her life's work. From a childhood spent surrounded by fabrics and fashion design, to years learning alongside artisan chocolatiers, to a lifetime devoted to fascia and human movement, she explores how s...

What does it mean to carry on when life doesn't go to plan? In this deeply personal episode of Thank You For Having Me , Joanne reflects on a formative period of family life shaped by illness, uncertainty, service, and unwavering love. Through the story of her father's struggles, and her mother's extraordinary determination to keep the family moving forward, Joanne explores the quie...

What if the magic of childhood never really leaves us? In this deeply personal episode of Thank You For Having Me , Joanne reflects on the childhood experiences, family traditions, and acts of everyday wonder that shaped her life. From rainy day boxes and upside-down days to family rituals, beloved grandparents, and a mother with an extraordinary gift for transforming the ordinary into something m...

What does it mean to truly say, “Thank you for having me”? I n this deeply personal opening episode of a new series, Joanne Avison reflects on the final hours recently spent with her mother, Stephani, and the profound sense of gratitude that emerged. What begins as a story about her passing becomes a tribute to connection, to family, to love and the invisible architecture that shapes a life. Joann...

  What if the geometry of wholeness is already expressing itself through you?  In this final episode of the Sacred Geometry mini-series, Joanne explores the dodecahedron: the geometry of ether, the fifth element, and the archetypal pattern of wholeness that underlies all living form. Drawing together the themes of the entire series, Joanne reveals how the dodecahedron contains the golden ratio wit...

What if the breath itself was a geometric event unfolding through your body? In this episode of the Sacred Geometry mini-series, Joanne explores the octahedron: the geometry of air, breath, dynamic equilibrium, and the poised relationship between opposing forces. Beginning with a single conscious breath, this conversation journeys through fascia, tensegrity, Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, sacre...

What if the shape of water was also the shape of life itself? In this episode of the Sacred Geometry mini-series, Joanne Avison explores the icosahedron: the geometry of water, flow, fascia, and living form. From soap bubbles and spheres to Fibonacci, pi, tensegrity, and the liquid crystal nature of the human body, this conversation reveals why the icosahedron sits at the heart of the living fasci...

What if the geometry of the cube was a transient aspect of you before you were even an embryo? In this episode of the Sacred Geometry mini-series, Joanne explores the hexahedron: the geometry of earth, embodiment, and the earliest sacred geometric patterns of human form…  You’ll discover: Why the cube appears briefly during the earliest human development How the body grows through geometric patter...

What is the simplest structure the body can form… and why does it matter for movement, fascia, and transformation? Joanne continues this popular new Sacred Geometry mini-series by exploring the first true three-dimensional form: the tetrahedron. Following on from the previous episode on zero, this conversation moves from potential into form. Joanne explains how four points create the first possibl...

What is the missing link between fascia and form… and how does sacred geometry help us understand the body more clearly? Following the popularity of previous episodes on this topic, and in response to so many questions from you, this new mini-series revisits sacred geometry in a deeper way. Join Joanne as she explores the fascinating geometric principles that underpin the human body, beginning wit...

What if moving well isn’t about doing more… but feeling more? In this episode Joanne Avison and Paul Thornley explore the final step in their five-part fascia-focused prehab approach to movement. This conversation brings the series together by challenging one of the biggest assumptions in training: that repetition and effort lead to better movement. Instead, refinement is revealed as something far...

What if true restoration isn’t about rest… but restoring your body’s ability to move, adapt, and perform? In this episode Joanne and Paul explore restoration, the fourth step in their 5-step fascia-focused approach, and share exclusive video demonstrations from their practitioner training - so you may prefer to watch this on the Joanne Avison YouTube channel - although there's still plenty to...

What if “release” isn’t about relaxing or stretching, but letting go of the patterns that hold you back? In this episode, Joanne Avison and Paul Thornley explore Release as the next step in their fascia-focused approach to movement. This is part of a mini-series on the Five R’s, and includes exclusive video demonstrations from inside their practitioner training, so you can see how this work is app...

Why mechanical thinking breaks movement, and how Recoil restores adaptability, resilience, and real-world function in the body. After such a great reaction to their recent episode about Rebound, Joanne and Paul return with the second instalment in this mini-series exploring the Five R’s of myofascial motion, again sharing exclusive demonstration videos from inside their practitioner training! So y...

For the first time ever Joanne and Paul share real movement training clips from inside the Myofascial Magic In Action practitioner course! 🌟 This exclusive episode explores why strength and stability alone actually don’t create efficient movement, and introduces Rebound as the key to moving without strain. Joanne and Paul illustrate this beautifully with visual clips of their Rebound exercises, o...

Why lever mechanics don’t explain human movement. In this episode, Joanne explores the limitations of the biomechanical idea that joints act as simple levers. Drawing on fascia science and anatomical observation, she explains why the human body cannot be accurately understood through linear mechanical models. Many traditional explanations of movement rely on engineering concepts such as levers, pi...

Is the human skeleton really linear — or is that a fundamental misunderstanding of anatomy? In this episode, Joanne responds to a detailed YouTube comment that raises important questions about fascia, skeletal organisation, and so-called “linear” underlying structure of the bones. What follows is not a disagreement of style, but a clear challenge to biological inaccuracies that are commonly repeat...

How regulation emerges through sensation, awareness, and relational feedback, not force or control. In this final episode of the five-part series on fascia, embodiment, and practical spirituality, Joanne explores the relationship between fascia and the nervous system, and how inner regulation can arise through lived, embodied experience, rather than necessarily needing to use conscious effort or t...

How does the body organise itself into movement, perception and awareness? In this episode, Joanne explores fascia as living geometry — not symbolic or abstract, but the organising architecture of embodied awareness… Building on the previous episode about the energetic body, this conversation looks at sacred geometry as a biological reality rather than a spiritual overlay. Joanne reflects on fasci...

How fascia connects the energetic body, embodied awareness, and spiritual awakening — explored through lived, sensory experience. In this episode, Joanne explores the energetic body through the living lens of fascia, embodiment, and direct experience. Rather than treating spirituality as something abstract or separate from the body, this conversation invites a grounded understanding of awakening a...

Biomotional intelligence describes how the body senses, adapts and responds before thought or analysis… In this episode, Joanne explores how awareness, fascia and lived experience shape the body’s innate intelligence in everyday life. She looks at biomotional intelligence not as a concept to understand, but as something to practice . Through embodied awareness, presence and subtle listening, the b...

Does fascia store emotional experience - or is there something more nuanced at play? Drawing on somatic healing, bodywork therapy and fascia science, Joanne looks at how our perceptions and emotional landscape influence our body’s tissue over time. But rather than framing fascia as something that simply “stores trauma,” she invites a more nuanced view of this incredible tissue as a dynamic, respon...

Gnosis, presence and embodied awareness explored through fascia, somatic practice and living intelligence. In this episode, Joanne reflects on gnosis as a form of knowing that is lived rather than intellectual. Through embodied awareness, breath and presence, she explores how the body reveals an innate intelligence that cannot be reduced to data or analysis. Drawing on fascia therapy, somatic prac...

Joanne is joined by clinical anatomist John Sharkey to unpack why stretching, fascia and strength are so often misunderstood in modern fitness, rehabilitation and movement training. Together they examine how misread science can lead to harmful assumptions about flexibility, myofascial release and long-term tissue health. The conversation centres on a widely discussed research paper on long-duratio...