Methodology
The Fascia Remedy is a method for restoring space, hydration, and movement to our fascial system based on two core principles: understanding how to effectively create change in our fascia and where to do it.
The standard Western medicine model (and many other healing modalities as well) are symptom-focused, so the root cause of chronic pain and dysfunction in the body is often overlooked. Where you feel the pain is rarely the problem! Instead of disconnecting from the body by silencing its messages through pills and surgery, The Fascia Remedy helps identify the core issue by systematically addressing the fascial lines where these messages originate.
The Foam Rolling Certification and the Bodywork Mastery Program will teach you simple protocols and powerful techniques for restoring fascial glide, realigning postural structure, and interrupting both muscle compensation and entrenched nervous system patterns–enabling fast and lasting pain relief, restoring ease of movement, and even improving athletic performance.
Additionally, I’ll teach you how to adapt your practice to each individual’s experience with pain (and resulting limitations) from an emotional perspective. This is a major missing piece in most clinical and physical modalities. When we gently invite each person into their own healing process, we give them the opportunity to more deeply understand their body’s messages and feel safe enough for lasting change to occur.
Whether you want to up-level your fitness coaching, start a new career, become a unique standout in the healing space, or simply want a way to help yourself, your partner, or family members – The Fascia Remedy is for you!
What is Fascia?
Fascia, also known as connective tissue, encases everything in our bodies. In fact, it’s the most abundant tissue we have!
Think of it like "plastic wrap" that wraps around every muscle fiber and muscle group, tendon, ligament, organ, bone, blood vessel, and nerve.
This three dimensional "plastic wrap suit" is one uninterrupted, interconnected system that organizes all the material and water in our bodies. It connects ligaments to bones, allows muscles to glide, holds organs in place, keeps our tissues hydrated, and maintains our postural structure (yes, more than the skeletal system)! If your fascial system were to magically disappear from your body, you would go tumbling to the floor in a pile of bones and goo.
Fascia is what gives us our shape, structure, and texture.
Fascia also holds our potential to move freely (or not). When fascia is healthy, it's like there's oil between all those layers of plastic wrap. Muscles and joints glide easily, blood can flow, your lymphatic system can detox, tissues are hydrated, and nerves can communicate quickly and uninhibitedly. Your body is light, mobile, and resilient.
Healthy fascia is essential for healthy movement!
Why does tight fascia cause pain?
Ready for analogy number two? When fascia is healthy, it functions like a wet sponge. It continuously soaks up essential nutrients and squeezes out toxins. Fascia also has a spring-like quality much like a sponge: you can easily squeeze inward or twist it any direction, and it will bounce right back to its right shape. This resilient quality enables your body to move freely and easily at its optimal level.
Unfortunately, fascia is affected by stress, trauma, inflammation, over-training and underuse, causing your fascia to twist into knots, stick together, shrink, and become dehydrated. Now, parts of your fascia are like a dry sponge. It’s hard and brittle. If you tried to squeeze inward or twist it, the sponge would hardly move or even break apart. Nutrients aren’t being absorbed, toxins are not coming out, shock isn’t being absorbed or distributed, and energy and lymph flow stagnate. Essentially, when optimal space and hydration are lost, our overall health takes a hit! What we’ve been taught to believe is a joint problem, a disc problem, or a muscle problem, is actually a FASCIA problem.
Your fascia requires space so that blood can flow and movement can happen.
Unhealthy and Restricted Fascia Contributes To:
Tendonitis
Plantar fasciitis and foot pain
Low back pain and herniated discs
Knee pain
Plateaus in athletic performance
Pulled muscles
Upper back pain and rib pain
Shoulder pain
Neck pain and headaches/migraines
Chronic dehydration
Slow recovery time
Carpal tunnel and hand numbness
Pinched nerves, nerve pain, sciatica
Hip pain
Overuse injuries (such as Golfer’s or Tennis Elbow, Runner’s Knee, shin splints, etc)
Limited range of motion
Aches and pains from pregnancy or postpartum
And so much more
Good news!
Space, hydration, and health in your fascia can be restored. If you address your fascia (“pull out the wrinkles in the plastic wrap”) and thereby allow hydration back to your tissue (“water to hydrate the sponge”), you can be free to move how and when you want.
It doesn’t matter what age you are! If you correctly address fascia in the right areas, it's possible to...
🔸Make huge progress in less time
🔸Walk, run, jump, workout, and live life without pain
🔸Improve function of joints, muscles, and organs
🔸Improve breathing
🔸Improve immune system
🔸Have better focus and energy
🔸Feel comfortable being in your body
🔸Have better resilience to stress
🔸Feel younger
🔸Have better posture, balance, and mobility
🔸Lose your fear of pain
🔸Restore trust in your body
