Fascia is a layer of connective tissue that surrounds all the cells, nerves, joints, tendons, and ligaments in your body. It provides support to your muscles, tendons, ligaments, tissues, organs, nerves, joints, and bones. Fascia is multi-layered and plays an active role in the body. It supports tissues and organs, lessens friction, eases muscle tension, and tightens up reflexively. There are four main layers of fascia: superficial, deep, visceral, and parietal, each with its own unique characteristics. 

Benefits can include (but not limited to): increased energy, better muscle performance and strength for activities, more range of motion, reduction (or removal) of pain, improved flexibility, better digestion, better sleep, stronger immunity, enhanced body awareness, better posture.

Let’s revisit the term flexible. It’s not stretch-ible. Our muscles are meant to make a variety of movements to move our limbs and move us in space. That capacity to stretch or lengthen is our range of motion. Not our flexibility. True flexibility, then, is the ability of our muscles lengthen AND to contract (flex!), and twist. When fascia is dense and inflexible, it acts like a straight jacket, restricting the muscle from contracting, lengthening, and rotating. Clean up the fascia and we free up the muscles. Not only do they lengthen in an appropriate range, they contract and rotate better. We are stronger, more flexible, and move with ease.

You absolutely can, if you practice. The people that show up and do the work are the ones that experience these shifts. And it is work to create this change. It doesn’t hurt, but it does require effort. Not everyone wants to make the effort. But those that do? Those are the testimonials.