The Fascia Guide presents
On stage
20% of Swedes live with chronic pain.
We want to change that – do you?
💰 SEK 10 billion in out-of-pocket payments (medications, treatments, alternative care)
🏥 SEK 90 billion in public costs (healthcare, sickness benefits, support)
🏢 SEK 80 billion in productivity losses for businesses
Approximately 20 % of the world’s adult population—over 1.5 billion people—live with chronic pain today. In Sweden, that’s about 2 million people.
Beyond the human suffering for individuals and their loved ones, pain costs us all:
In Europe, the cost tops €5.2 trillion per year.
The Living Body & Fascia are the key to change
Fascia is the body’s interconnected, intelligent network—a system that links muscles, organs, and nerves and serves as both a sensory system, a flow system, and a bridge between body and mind.
New research shows that the fascia carries memories, influences pain, and plays a crucial role in the body’s healing. It represents a paradigm shift in how we understand the body.
Solutions exist, but the
leading researchers
aren’t cutting through
the noise.Join us as research
meets innovation at the
Swedish Fascia Convention.
A two-day live experience where cutting-edge research meets real-world innovation
On stage: Global pioneers presenting insights that could transform how we understand the human body and lay the foundation for new healthcare systems.
The Swedish Fascia Convention brings the spark for new ideas, collaborations, and fresh directions—whether you’re a practitioner, innovator, or just deeply curious. Join us if you want to be a part of the change.
The Living Body – the meeting place for the health of the future
📍 Uppsala, Sweden
📅 June 14–15, 2025
A unique event where researchers, innovators, therapists, and the curious come together to solve our greatest health challenges—together.
💡 You will experience:
Lectures by world-leading fascia researchers
Hands-on treatments & workshops
Panels, performances & live demonstrations
An opportunity to experience fascia treatment
🎯 Goal: Inspire 1,000 people to see—and feel—what is possible.
Purpose: To bring together researchers, innovators, healthcare professionals, therapists, leaders, and thinkers from around the world—to jointly explore, understand, and build bridges between research, innovation, and engagement in human health.
Background: 1.5 billion people worldwide live with chronic pain. Many more suffer from fatigue, stress, and burnout. But we’ve been asking the wrong questions. Fascia—the body’s most misunderstood tissue—turns out to be the key to a completely new understanding of health, flow, and healing.
What’s happening: Two days of inspiring gatherings, conversations, lectures, workshops, panel discussions, treatments, innovation competitions, and unforgettable experiences. We’ll film, document, shake things up, and co-create the future’s network with you.
Who it’s for:
Anyone who is curious
Researchers
Leaders
Those living with pain—or caring for someone who does
Builders of tomorrow’s healthcare
Anyone who truly wants to understand, heal, and care for the body
Program
Day 1
2025-06-14
Day 2
2025-06-15
09:30
- 10:10
NEIL THEISE: How to Understand Complexity in a Simple Way
With his latest book Notes on Complexity (2023) and his contribution to the 2024 study Towards a Comprehensive Definition of the Human Fascial System, which maps fascia as a system composed of four organs, Professor Neil Theise has a unique ability to make highly complex topics understandable and accessible.
Audiences often describe his lectures as inspiring and eye-opening — and you usually leave with at least one life-changing insight.
10:20
- 11:00
JEAN-CLAUDE GUIMBERTEAU: How Realizing That the Body Is Actually Alive Changes Everything
There’s a reason why Jean-Claude Guimberteau’s presentations at fascia conferences over the years are often seen as highlights. A plastic and hand surgeon, he has spent four decades studying the workings of the human body. He is known for his pioneering work on the fascial system and for using intratissular endoscopy to reveal the architecture and spatial organization of living tissue.
Through his videos and imagery, he shows the living body in a way that transforms the viewer’s perspective — and something fundamental shifts in the way we see ourselves.
11:00
- 11:15
Break
An opportunity to experience fascia treatment
11:20
- 12:00
SUE ADSTRUM: How to Solve Miscommunication
Fascia represents an entirely new way of seeing and understanding the human body — and it’s not easy to explain in a way that people truly grasp. Sue Adstrum, PhD, has made this her hallmark. In her book The Living Wetsuit, she explains complex anatomy and physiology in a clear and accessible way that anyone can understand.
12:00
- 12:30
PER JOHANSSON: How Our Inherited Ideas Affect What We Can Imagine
Imagine walking into a library filled with the works of history’s most influential philosophers and thinkers — and being able to ask them exactly what they meant, and how it all relates to you and your life.
Per Johansson, a scholar in human ecology and the history of ideas, is well placed to guide such reflections. He has spent most of his life exploring what we think, how we think, and how our thoughts shape the world around us.
In this session, he’ll take you on a thought-provoking journey into how inherited ideas influence what we’re even capable of imagining about the future.
14:00
- 14:50
GERALD POLLACK: How Understanding Water Is Key to Understanding Life
What if water isn’t just the backdrop for life — but the key to understanding it? Biochemist and professor Gerald Pollack has spent decades studying water in living systems, leading to the discovery of a fourth phase: structured, negatively charged, and essential to how the body works.
At the convention, he’ll explore how this “EZ water” may hold answers to everything from energy flow to cellular communication — and why rethinking water might change how we understand life itself.
14:50
- 15:30
THOMAS LEVY: How New Perspectives Help Us Understand Diseases
What if all chronic illness could be traced back to one core process in the body — the loss of electrons? According to cardiologist and researcher Dr. Thomas Levy, all disease is a result of oxidative stress — and the key to reversing it lies in restoring the body’s natural electron flow.
In this session, he explains why vitamin C is the body’s most essential molecule for healing, how stress disrupts cellular function, and what it means to reactivate the body’s ability to produce its own vitamin C. Expect a powerful new perspective on energy, inflammation, and long-term health.
15:30
- 16:00
Break
An opportunity to experience fascia treatment
16:00
- 17:30
The Fascia Guide – Why This Matters
After a day filled with groundbreaking research and new perspectives, we take a collective breath.
In this closing session, the founders of Fasciaguiden – Axel, Hans and Ivar – reflect on what we’ve heard, what it means, and where we go from here.
It’s about more than fascia. It’s about belief in change, in healing, in the body’s intelligence.
It’s about why we do this.
With honesty, heart and hope, we connect the dots and ground the experience in something deeper:
Love. Possibility. Action. And the courage to keep going.
09:30
- 11:00
When Science Is Silenced – A Debate on Politics, Power and New Research
Why is groundbreaking research being ignored? This debate dives into the political and systemic forces that resist change – and what it means for health, science, and society.
11:00
- 11:30
Break
An opportunity to experience fascia treatment
11:30
- 12:30
Innovation Beyond Limits – What Happens When We Actually Listen to Research?
Too often, groundbreaking research is ignored in favor of outdated systems. This conversation explores what becomes possible when we stop resisting innovation – and start acting on what science already knows.
14:00
- 15:30
The Doers – Stories of Action, Change, and Real Impact
Filippa Odevall
Jenny Koos
Leena Källquist
Sven Román
Ia Bergsten
Fabian Bolin
Mareike Claussen
While systems stall and science is silenced, some people just get to work.
This segment brings together pioneers and practitioners who have dared to challenge the status quo – and helped thousands in the process.
From doctors questioning outdated paradigms to coaches, breathworkers, and movement specialists who empower healing through practice, these are the voices of real change.
Each speaker shares their personal journey and invites the audience into a deeper reflection: What becomes possible when we stop waiting – and start doing?
15:30
- 16:00
Break
An opportunity to experience fascia treatment
16:00
- 17:00
What Happens Next – From Moment to Movement
This is not the end. It’s the beginning.
As the final session of the conference, this conversation looks forward:
– How do we take what happened here and turn it into lasting impact?
– How do we stay connected, deepen the collaborations, and keep the fire burning?
– How do we grow a living network that continues to shake systems, spread knowledge, and empower healing across borders?
We’ll explore tangible next steps – from community building to research initiatives, from storytelling to shared strategy. This is the start of a new era in health, and you are part of it.
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Please note that the program is subject to change.
TESTIMONIALS
Jean-Claude Guimberteau
MD
Neil Theise
Professor of Pathology
Gerald Pollack
Professor of Bioengineering
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