Ines Marita Schaerer (CH) is an artist and fascia practitioner*, living and working in Brussels. Their work extends across poetry, performance, sound art and experimental music.

Through writing and voicing, their work attempts at embodying words, wording the body, sensing words, wording senses. With speculations and imaginings, they want to test and rehearse interdependencies and interconnections with other entities and environments. They are particularly interested in sensibility and vulnerability as constitutive forces. 

In their practice words take the shape of a hybrid body of formulations and formats; ideas, concepts, and notions appear, reappear and transform. They find a temporary appearance in the form of live events such as (sound) performances, readings, installations, spatial situations, or publications. They are particularly interested in the ephemeral and versatile nature of spoken language, on the threshold of expression, between the semantic and sound, but also in the power, presence and performativity of the voice, and how it effects and affects.

In their more recent performances, they oppose poetry with noise as tools to challenge the boundaries of the self. 

Her practice is informed by the given context, permeable for various forms of knowledge, nourished and driven by thinkers, co-thinkers, collaborators and allies.

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Fascia Therapy: It is a holistic, non-manipulative, manual technique that specifically addresses all connective tissues in the human body, i.e. it reaches both superficial and deep tissue types (muscles, skeleton, organs, skull).
The properties and behaviour of the connective tissue or fascia can be affected by trauma, exertion and stress and cause acute or chronic functional disorders. This manual and gestural technique has a direct effect on adhesions, tension and tightening of the various fasciae. The technique dynamises the self-regulatory powers and mobilises the person's perceptive abilities.

It is effective for relaxation, general or local physical tension release, and to establish a better connection to yourself and your body awareness. It also supports to change your relation to-/diminishes chronical aches and pains: backache, headache, neck pain, shoulder pain, as well as stress-related problems such as fatigue, tension, nervosity, anxiety, digestive problems and loss of anchoring. 

It's a gentle, manual technique that involves a soft touch with the hands and is characterised by attentive listening, patience and a certain power of slowness.