Integrated Myofascial Release…. What is the fascia and MFR?

What is the fascia?

Fascia is a living, vibrating web

It’s a continuous whole - there are no seams, no layers, no stitches, no connections

It’s our largest sensory organ

It’s our fluid system

It’s our network of communication

It’s our liquid crystal

It’s multidimensional

It envelopes every cell in the body

It’s constitutive - has the power and potential to give organised existence to something

It’s composed of protein fibres, elastin and collagen and these are embedded within a gel like ground substance, a crystalline water that exists in the extra cellular matrix

How does myofascial release work?

MFR uses therapeutic touch via hands-on techniques on the skin (not through clothing) which are slow and sustained, these can be subtle and gentle or deep and penetrating

MFR tends to the entire fascial network (all of you)

MFR finds the pain and may look elsewhere for the cause

MFR has a key time element to enable the fascia to yield

MFR is not protocol, each session offers a unique treatment

MFR encourages clients to allow their body and mind to soften to help promote interoception (inner awareness)

MFR engages the client during treatment to enhance responses

MFR uses dynamic, spontaneous movement approaches

MFR aims to reorganise physical and emotional holding patterns

Why might fascia be restricted?

Trauma - emotional / physical

Inflammatory responses

Posture / repetive motion

Surgery

Ageing process

What are the benefits of myofascial release?

MFR gives potential to reorganise the fascia

which brings balance back at a cellular level

+ promotes cellular communication

MFR rehydrates soft tissue gel

+ reorganises of the structure of the fascia

MFR enhances body-mind (+soul*) communication

MFR enhances proprioception + interoception

MFR can change our perception of pain

MFR brings flow back to the blood, the lymph, the breath, the hormones, the digestion, the immune system etc

MFR increases our holistic functioning

+ brings back systemic homeostasis

+ brings back our efficiency as an organism

= hugely beneficial for our own internal healing

*I believe this but this is not proven by science