Treating the Myofasical System - The Conduit of Consciousness

Imagine the possibilities of healing, when you pair the right state of mind and belief in your ability to heal...

I’m going to flat out say it, because there is no point in pretending. I am all about fascia! In fact, I’m obsessed with it. The road to my obsession, began years ago with my bike accident in downtown Toronto. I was hit by a car and flung off it like a cue ball, bouncing off the pavement four times. Months later, when I spiralled into the worst depression, lost my periods and couldn’t go to the bathroom my obsession to find a cure became all consuming.

When I stumbled across myofascial release therapy and was fortunate enough to be treated by intuitive loving hands at Clear Passages, my awakening to this modality became my lifelong passion. I just knew, on a gut level, that this work healed and healed deeper than on just a physical level, it healed on an emotional and spiritual one too.

What I have come to understand and integrate into my practice, is that fascia is not just connective tissue that surrounds every muscle, nerve, blood vessel, and osseous structure, it is ALIVE with consciousness!

Newtonian physics, the paradigm of traditional therapy, claimed things have energy. Unfortunately, traditional therapy ignored the discoveries of Einstein that things ARE energy! This is the paradigm that Myofascial Release utilizes so successfully.

Spoken from the mouth of one of myofascial releases greatest influencers and teachers, “Consciousness is the most important aspect of life and healing. I found that my patient’s fascial system was full of life, memories, emotions and consciousness!” ( John F. Barnes, PT)

Energy is life in motion. Barnes turned physiotherapy on its head when he disagreed with the practice of dissecting cadavers to learn about the human body. What he discovered and taught his peers, was that we must study and learn about the body while it’s alive, full of life, energy and healing capacity.

This has become the new wave of thinking and more and more therapists and healers are catching on. Just look at Dr. Joe Dispenza, Anita Moorjani or anyone in the quantum physics/healing world.

Our minds and bodies are more capable of change than we ever thought possible.

Imagine the possibilities of healing, when you pair the right state of mind and belief in your ability to heal, with a therapist who practices modalities that tap right into this field. This is what I do. I practice modalities: reiki, craniosacral therapy and myofascial release that utilizes the intelligence of the mindbody to create lasting positive changes.

Does it mean everything becomes perfect, and there is no pain ever again. No, but it sure does help to a significant degree. I know firsthand. I chose these techniques because they worked on me. My belief in them and specifically when speaking about fascial techniques, stems from being on the table and having gifted hands work on my pain. And my pain was deep.

Myofascial restrictions occur from trauma, surgery, and inflammatory processes. They can produce pressures of approximately 2,000 pounds per square inch on pain sensitive structures that do not show up on any of the standard tests ( x- rays, MRI’s, myelograms, CAT scans, electromyography, etc.). This enormous pressure acts like a “straitjacket” on muscles, nerves, blood vessels and osseous structures producing the symptoms of pain, headaches, and restriction of motion, and disease. Remember, through evolution, our bodies were made to survive trauma, not necessarily thrive. So basically these restrictions or adhesions, were created to protect us from further injury, they definitely had a purpose, but the end result is not pretty. We are alive and functioning, but in a scattered, cross-linked, haphazard way. Think of a long rope that has been tied in knots, pulled a million different ways, and lying on the floor in a heap.

Myofascial release loosens the knots, lengthens the rope, and brings our body alignment back into integrity.

Traditional medicine treats symptoms and ‘bandaids’ the problem, never really getting to the deeper sources, but fascial therapies like craniosacral and myofascial release treats pain and dysfunction on a cellular level. Whether you are dealing with repetitive strain injuries, desk work culture dysfunction, trauma, freeze and fold responses, abuse, or serious surgeries and accidents, these techniques have a magical ability to melt, breakdown and unravel tissue/fascia, restoring it back to its original elastic, pain free state.

The bonus – whatever has been stored up in this frozen tissue, whatever emotions, beliefs, traumas and the like that hasn’t had a chance to evaporate over a lifetime, finally has a chance. It’s a gateway – a door opens, we walk through it and on the other side we are still ourselves just a lot lighter.