Written by Heather MacMillan. Certified Mind-Body Human Design Reader and Guide for our Human Design Circle Commuity Calls
Over the years of studying Human Design and Fascia, I’ve been able to embody my defined centers and the channels bridging those centers. When I say embody, I mean I can feel the energy and themes running through my literal body. To me I see the centers as locations in the body (hence why they are in a bodygraph in your chart) and the channels are the energy helping to connect these centers. In our body everything is surrounded by and woven together with the fascia.
Fascia is the superhighway of connective tissue that runs through and around every single organ, muscle and cell of your body. In its healthy state it is a glistening, fluid semi-liquid gel-like crystal that flows, glides, transmits electricity and holds our body together. It is highly innervated- meaning the nervous system runs with it making it highly sensitive. It’s a communication system that sends information via electricity and mechanical push/pulls of its physical structure.
I’ve come to see the connection of the channels to the centers as the fascia. Or at the very least they overlap and entwine with it. In our body where the organs or gatherings of important nerves, blood and lymph vessels are located, they are like one from this connection. When that connection is strong, the different areas of the body can work in harmony with each other. When they become hardened, adhered (think scar tissue) and dehydrated, pain occurs, communication is lessened and we feel less connected in our body.
Think of the fascia as one big spider web throughout of body. If one part of it gets snagged or pulled on, the whole system (or web) is affected.
Now think of the Human Design Channels as the fascia. They energetically connect the centers. And when the information/energy is flowing well, we can express the archetype of each center and channel in the higher frequency.
Here’s an example based on my personal chart: I’m a 3/6 Emotional Projector with the channel of Recognition 41-30 defined. I have 4 other channels as well, but I’ll just use this one in the example.
Gate 30 (desire/feelings) is in the Emotional Solar Plexus and it connects to gate 41 (contraction/patient dreamer) in the Root center. This channel is significant to me because gate 30 is also in my personality sun and it’s where my emotional wave lives.
This channel starts in the root center with the pressure to experience something new and dreaming and then moves into the feeling of this energy in the emotions of the solar plexus. There’s a lot of intensity in this channel and patience required to to know which dreams and experiences are meant to be shared to the collective.
I can feel the pulses of the root adrenaline energy building in me in my everyday life and the emotions that come with this energy. The default is to rush into many ideas and dreams, but I’ve learned to slow it down, feel my emotions and allow my wave to go through the highs and lows before I feel this grounding clarity.
When I started learning how to do self-bodywork I could feel the channels of my fascia, which was very tight and clogged, start to open. Landing my hands on my own body - in my pelvic bowl area, the literal root of my body, and in my abdomen where the actual solar plexus lives, I started to live the higher expression of channel 41-30.
I can visualize the pathways that connect my centers to each other in my body and through this connection, I learned more patience, to enjoy the actual journey of the dream and experience without always desiring a specific outcome.
When I feel too much pressure from gate 41, or the emotional intensity in a negative way from gate 30, I know to lay my hands on my body, to ground myself outside or on the floor and feel back into the body that houses these energies.
Bringing your Human Design into your actual living, breathing body is so important to the integration and embodiment piece. We are here on earth in this body for a reason and this is why I bring guided self-fascia release into my Human Design readings. The information we learn about our chart can stay up in our head or be lost to our memory quite easily. When we lay our hands on our body and use a strategically chosen fascia hold, we can integrate what we learn about ourselves and start to embody our design.
In each Human Design reading I do, we go through your chart and then I guide you in a 15-20 minute fascia release self bodywork session, along with visualizations catered specifically to your HD chart and what we discussed in the reading. In that way, we deepen into your original design through a specific challenge you’re going through and transform your fascia in the same session.
Heather MacMillan works with women one-on-one, weaving Human Design readings with the body-based wisdom she's spent years learning and developing. If you're in a life transition, sitting with a big decision, or simply curious about what your Inner Authority actually feels like from the inside, she's someone worth spending an hour (or two) with.
Heather is a Certified Human Design Reader trained through the Mind-Body Human Design School with Korynn Elliott. She’s also been guiding the Human Design Circle community calls for the last two years in the HD school. You can explore her full profile and book a reading with her here.