Fascia is the body’s connective tissue.  It covers every muscle, organ and muscular compartment as well as going right down to every tendon, muscle fibre and even deeper to the microscopic level of muscle fascicles.  It is part of what gives our body shape and is contractile.  It serves as the connection for nerves and blood vessels and plays a great role in allowing our bodies to move in transverse movements across the midline of the body and involving a complex co-ordination of muscles to effect movement.  Complex movements with power require a great deal of muscular contraction as well as contraction of the fascial system.