fascia as sensory intelligence.
This article by Daniel Stickler MD, published on Substack, offers scientific language for what the body has long registered and made evident through movement and somatic practice: fascial communication as the body’s innate sensory intelligence.
Fascia is described as a living, body-wide network and sensory organ, hydrated, conductive, and responsive, through which information is sensed, transmitted, and integrated. Drawing on contemporary research, the text frames fascia not as passive connective material, but as an active medium for bioelectric signaling, fluid exchange, and adaptive organization.
A central claim of the piece is that sedentary life is actively damaging to this system. Immobility compromises hydration, diminishes adaptability, and degrades the conditions that allow this network to remain functional. Movement is therefore articulated as a biological requirement for maintaining the body’s capacity to sense, respond, and organize itself.