Per Johansson
6 articles, 62 episodes on Per Johansson — reviewed, translated, woven together.
Articles
Exploring the Ecology of Life
My book, 'When Logic Came to Town and Man Broke in Two'—the final version of which is nearing completion—contains a chapter on how I believe we should understand the concept of ecology.
20 May 2024Redefining what it means to be human
Good news is no news – this is, in principle, the motto behind all current media. It has always been this way. The only thing that varies is the intensity of the bad news.
13 May 2024To take a stand for the Living
I princip alla känner till PH-värde, men visste du att PH-värde i själva verket är en laddning?
24 Apr 2024Fascia and The Living Body
“Fascia and the Living Body” is a document about the scientific understanding of the body as a living whole.
14 Jul 2023
Research
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Podcast
- Ep. 021
21. The Fascia Guide Live – Christmas Special
The episode was first published on The Fascia Guide LIVE YouTube channel on December 18, 2024. In this Christmas Special, Axel Bohlin and Per Johansson explore a deeper question: How important is bel…
- Ep. 020
20. The Fascia Guide Live with Dr Hiten Patel
The episode was first published on The Fascia Guide LIVE YouTube channel on December 12, 2024. In this special episode, we speak with Dr. Hiten Patel, a highly experienced senior physician who reache…
- Ep. 019
19. The Fascia Guide Live – Imagination
The episode was first published on The Fascia Guide Live YouTube channel on November 27, 2024. In this episode, Axel Bohlin and Per Johansson explore the power of imagination and how our inner images…
- Ep. 018
18. The Fascia Guide Live – How we understand things
This episode is a re-release of The Fascia Guide LIVE – a livestreamed conversation recorded on November 20, 2024. In this episode, we dive into the foundations of knowledge and understanding – and h…
- Ep. 017
17. The Fascia Guide Live – A conversation about Fascia = a conversation about everything
The Fascia Guide Live – A conversation about Fascia = a conversation about everything This episode is a re-release of The Fascia Guide LIVE – a livestreamed conversation where we open up a free-form…
- Ep. 015
15. Dr. Neil Theise on fascia, complexity, and the nature of consciousness
The episode was first published on the Swedish podcast Fasciaguiden on June 5, 2025. In this thought-provoking conversation, we meet Dr. Neil Theise — liver pathologist, fascia researcher, and author…
- Ep. 169
169. The Living Body
There is a clear before and after The Living Body – Swedish Fascia Convention, which was held in Uppsala on June 14–15. In this episode, Hans, Hanna, and Axel share their reflections from the days th…
- Ep. 166
166. Neil Theise
In this thought-provoking conversation, we meet Neil Theise – liver pathologist, fascia researcher, and author of the book Notes on Complexity. This is more than an interview – it's a journey through…
- Ep. 152
152. The Fascia Book – a tool for understanding another perspective
How do we begin to understand the living, moving body when we've been taught since childhood that it is static: still, even dead? How do we begin to think holistically when our entire culture is buil…
- Ep. 0-1
Podcast Recommendations: One Idea Gives Birth to Another.
Människan & maskinen and Myter & mysterier Per Johansson and Eric Schüldt have together created several podcast series that explore human nature, technological development, and existential questions.…
- Ep. 0-4
The Foundation of the Fascia Guide
Your guide to the guide All episodes are available on Spotify, iTunes and on the web here Fasciaguiden began in the spring of 2020 as a series of eight episodes. A conversation between Hans Bohlin, A…
- Ep. 136
136. Fasciaguiden then, now & the future with the Life Force Innovation foundation
How did Fasciaguiden actually start and what has happened since its launch in 2020? What does the international attention and the contacts with Pollack and Guimberteau, among others, entail? Why does…
- Ep. 130
130. What is Fascia?
What is Fascia? is the title of episode 130 of the Fascia Guide podcast. So we have released about 129 hours of podcast about Fascia and yet it feels justified to try to answer the question again. Be…
- Ep. 003
03. What does Fascia do?
Understanding the living body is quite a complex thing – but there is a simple way to understand the function of the body by understanding Fascia. In simple terms, Fascia helps the body to load and u…
- Ep. 002
02. What is Fascia?
What is Fascia It might be a simple question, but it literally takes hours to answer it. Fascia is the connective tissue that encapsulates everything in the body, from muscles and skeleton, to organs…
- Ep. 001
01. Why Fascia?
The first episode of the English podcast “The Fascia Guide”. The Fascia Guide is a podcast about the living body, about new research and a new perspective on health, pain and what it means to be aliv…
- Ep. 121
121. What is it that makes us do what we do?
In our culture, we struggle to understand the living. Research, especially on water, fascia, and gut flora, is forcing us to reconsider previously held truths about how things work. We have learned t…
- Ep. 120
120. What is being researched and why?
What happens when we make observations that don't align with our previous beliefs about how the world looks and functions? If we accept that we know very little about incredibly central parts of our…
- Ep. 119
119. There's nothing wrong with you, you've just been taught there is
The more we learn about the body, about humans, and about living things, the more amazed we become. When we show Guimberteau's films of living Fascia during lectures, people are usually very moved by…
- Ep. 118
118. Why don't we understand life?
If we actually embraced all the new research from the last 10-20 years on, for example, Fascia, the female body, gut flora, back pain, and water, we could develop fantastic solutions to very large so…
- Ep. 113
113. Is there research on this?
We've been asked this question countless times, and the follow-up question is always—research on what? On the existence of Fascia? On the function of Fascia? On Fascia treatment? Or perhaps on the ef…
- Ep. 109
109. Why we learn things & what happens when knowledge lives in the body
How do you understand the whole, and how do you explain it so that others understand? If everything is connected – where do you start? How do you actually learn to understand things, and what does it…
- Ep. -12
How Do We as a Society View the Female Body and Childbirth?
Fascia Natal Guide is a podcast about the body, pregnancy, childbirth, and a changed perspective on what it means to give birth. The goal is to give women knowledge about what happens to their bodies…
- Ep. 104
104. Knowledge about the body made simple
What does it mean for you as a person when you learn more about how the body works? How do you use knowledge about your own body in your daily life? … and how do you avoid getting stressed about NOT…
- Ep. 100
100. Fascia & the living body
What does science say about Fascia and Fascia treatment? Scientific research is incredibly good for providing an advanced understanding of parts, external events, functions, and connections. At the s…
- Ep. 099
99. Fascia, birth and the living female body
The idea of helping pregnant women feel better was born back in the autumn of 2017, and over the years several women have had their pelvis balanced before and after childbirth, and Fascia treatment h…
- Ep. 096
96. The foundation for a new scientific paradigm
The insight that the earth is round and not flat leads us to draw different conclusions about how the world works. In the same way, the insight that the body is alive and not dead is changing the way…
- Ep. 095
95. Fascia, acupuncture & traditional Chinese medicine
Does Fascia research explain how acupuncture works? For several thousand years, traditional Chinese medicine has used the meridian system that we in the West perhaps most associate with acupuncture.…
- Ep. 091
91. The Fascia Guide's New Year's Treats – Tips from the Past Year
2022 was, to say the least, an exciting and eventful year – not least when it comes to Fascia and everything related to it. Axel, Per, Hans, and Camilla have each chosen three episodes from the past…
- Ep. 090
90. How experiences settle in the body and strengthen us as human beings
Why is it that some people you meet or see feel very secure, confident, and self-assured, while others feel insecure or have a strange aura? Experience-based knowledge is something everyone has to so…
- Ep. 088
88. LIVE: The body is the place where we take place
How is the Fascia affected by what we experience? Following a screening of the film 'Fascia: The body's network without beginning or end', the conversation continues about what happens to the body wh…
- Ep. 087
87. Why do we think we are dead?
A living body and a dead body are not the same thing... There is a significant difference, so obvious it's almost ridiculous. A living body is alive, full of life and in constant flow. But our entire…
- Ep. 086
86. Why is it important to talk about how we feel?
How can a conversation have a healing effect, and what role does the listener play in the healing process? How does a societal wound differ from personal trauma, and why is it important to have a con…
- Ep. 083
83. How is the body affected by fear?
Fear can be paralyzing and lead us to make bad decisions or do foolish things. At the same time, there are countless historical examples of people who have overcome and managed their fear, thereby be…
- Ep. 082
82. We are as unique on the inside as we are on the outside
If you look at the people around you, you'll see that we are similar yet very different – and we are just as unique on the inside. No one thinks the way you think, and this becomes more staggering wh…
- Ep. 075
75. What does it mean to listen to your body?
Are our bodies trying to tell us something, and if so, what? What does it mean to check in, listen to your body, and be present in the moment? Is there a connection between the body's signals and phe…
- Ep. 073
73. The Scientific Basis for Fascia and Fascia Treatment
What is the scientific basis for our claims about Fascia? How can we scientifically explain what happens during a Fascia treatment? … and why is it so difficult to answer these questions based on tod…
- Ep. 070
70. Fascia, a new view of humanity and a paradigm shift
What happens when we make observations that don't align with what we previously believed about how the world looks and works? That is exactly what is happening right now in research field after resea…
- Ep. 068
68. What's it like to work helping other people?
Most people who become teachers, doctors, psychologists, or manual therapists are driven by a desire to help other people get better. But what happens when the systems you thought were there to help…
- Ep. 065
65. How we help others understand & reach their full potential
How do we help others understand & reach their full potential? The conversation continues about what a body is & the importance of the body for understanding what a human is and can be. Episode 64 wa…
- Ep. 064
64. How to start understanding and achieving your potential
Over several episodes, we have discussed what a body is, what it is to feel and treat, and finally, how to become a human being—what a person has the potential to become and why the body is so import…
- Ep. 062
62. What is human potential?
In four episodes, we have talked about what a body is, how we experience our body with our senses, and what it means to feel. We have also talked about what a treatment is and an image of the human a…
- Ep. 057
57. What is it to feel?
The search for an answer to what a body really is continues. Previously, we have talked about sight, hearing, smell, and taste, all of which can be linked to specific body parts – eyes, ears, nose, a…
- Ep. 056
56. How do we experience our body?
The search for an answer to what a body really is continues. This time, the focus is on how we experience the body, the impressions we get, how we react, and how we sense the body. Focusing on one se…
- Ep. 054
54. What is a body?
At first glance, it seems like a simple question and it feels like the answer is simple – but what is a body? Not what it's made of, what affects it – but what the body is? Together with Per Johansso…
- Ep. 051
51. Why is Fascia a whole new way of looking at the body? LIVE
What is it about Fascia and Fascia research that is so different – and what, really, is a body? Live in front of an audience, Axel Bohlin, Per Johansson, Camilla Ranje Nordin, and Hans Bohlin talk ab…
- Ep. 028
28. The body, artificial intelligence & built-in resistance to change
If you only listen to one episode of Fasciaguiden, it might be this one. In this podcast, we have explored how new research is changing the view of health, aches, and pain, forcing us to rethink and…
- Ep. 027
27. What is disease in theory and in practice?
The currently accepted scientific theory for why we get sick states that various microorganisms, pathogens, bacteria, and viruses attack the body and make us ill. But how well does that idea align wi…
- Ep. 022
22. How are the body affected by thoughts and emotions?
… what are we actually thinking, and where do our thoughts come from? We know that the body is affected by our thoughts and emotions – but how can an idea stand in the way of healing? Today we know t…
- Ep. 021
21. What are electromagnetic fields and how do they affect the body?
How well do we understand the environment we live in? Today we'll discuss something that is hardly ever talked about, yet is absolutely crucial to how all life on our planet works. What are electroma…
- Ep. 020
20. How do I learn to understand my own body?
In this podcast, we have discussed how recent research on Fascia leads to a completely new way of viewing the body, and how ecological thinking can help us understand the body from a different perspe…
- Ep. 019
19. Why do we get sick?
… and what is illness, really? Why do we actually get sick? In today's episode, we search for answers with the help of an ecological mindset and new research on Fascia and our gut flora. This leads t…
- Ep. 018
18. Ecology and the Body's Ecosystem
To understand Fascia, a holistic perspective is not just desirable but absolutely necessary – but how do we understand the body as a whole? There is a scientific tradition where concepts like relatio…
- Ep. 017
17. Fascia forces us to rethink
Recent years of research in general, and research on fascia in particular, opens up a new understanding of how the body works and provides completely new explanations for diseases, aches, and pain. A…
- Ep. 008
08. The Belief in Progress: The myth that controls our lives and distances us from the body and nature
In this series, we have argued that our perspective—that is, how we see ourselves and the world—is not just important, but absolutely central to how we understand the body, what we research, how we b…
- Ep. 007
07. Fascia is changing our view of the body – but what does that mean for me as a human being?
In six episodes, we have reasoned that the Western way of dividing the body into parts, which relate to each other as just parts, makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to understand the body as…
- Ep. 006
06. Why Don't Doctors Talk About Fascia? On the resistance to a certain type of research
Research in recent years in general, and on fascia in particular, is opening up a new understanding of how the body works—and at the same time forcing us to rethink. But why isn't this talked about m…
- Ep. 005
05. The Puzzle: How do we put the pieces together to understand the body as a whole?
We began this series by examining how we actually see and think about our bodies, and we followed up by tracing the origin of these ideas. In episodes 3 and 4, we present new research that opens up a…
- Ep. 004
04. How Fascia Works & How It Helps Us Understand Back Pain & Cancer
Recent years of research show that Fascia has a much greater significance for health, aches, and pain than we previously thought. Fascia is a network of connective tissue, without beginning or end, t…
- Ep. 003
03. What is Fascia? How researchers discovered new cells and a new organ
In the first two episodes, we have established that there are different ways of looking at the body and that there are major shortcomings in our Western way of viewing both human beings and the body…