The Fascial Connections
Hands-on practitioners working to connect you with the inherent wisdom held in your body
Holding space for the potency and potential to change
Welcome to our space
As a small collective of intuitive bodyworkers we are committed to creating a place where all are seen. Here, we welcome you through the door into our space. We acknowledge that every person coming in is an individual with their own history, pains and ways of holding their body.
Utilizing various forms of healing and hands-on modalities we will work together, establishing a relational field in which your nervous system can feel safe-enough. There the potential for change and ease can arise.
Massage on its own can be relaxing and very beneficial after a long day of work, or play. With time and the right considerations it can also lead to profound growth or release of old patterns we unknowingly carry with us every day. As Bessel van der Kolk famously wrote “the body keeps the score”.
While this statement definitely holds truth I feel it misses the mark. I like to think the body holds the story. Our nervous systems create a narrative of all the events we’ve experienced. This story isn’t something we actively think about, more what our body has learned through experience and how it leads us in the present.
Actively listening to your body in session allows it to express its long held story which then creates the opportunity for lasting change to occur.
“The first thing for me when I touch someone is to let go of knowing anything, because if I think I know something, that’s what I’m likely to find — and I may miss what’s actually there. ”
Ways We Show Up
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Massage & Bodywork
Hands on practice from a wide range of modalities. Intentionally crafted to help find ease and comfort within your body and day to day function. Sessions curated with your specific needs and postural balance in mind. Therapeutic work that’s both relaxing and beneficial.
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Manual Lymphatic Drainage
This gentle practice directly targets the lymphatic system of the body. Lymphatics can be equated to both the bodies immune system and its garbage disposal, carrying away metabolic waste. Great for inflammation, pre/post surgical procedures and injury recovery.
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Craniosacral Therapy
Rooted in osteopathy, this work remembers the body as a whole, orienting to the inherent health existing in all things. We work together in a gentle dialogue to create a relationship with resources our body already knows, in a space safe-enough for integration.
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Energywork Practices
Energy is an innate truth of the world around us. From the electrical signals in our nervous system to the numerous wisdom traditions that have provided maps of understanding to our subtle body and its potential. We can work together to find clarity on deeper levels.
Why Fascia?
“As my studies advanced, the marvelous architecture of the fascia began to takes shape for me. I realized that it was the actual heart and soul of movement, coordinating it and collaborating with the central and autonomic nervous systems.”
For centuries this critical body system was overlooked, cut away and discarded as mere “packing material”. It’s only been in the last 20-30 years, with advances from people like Tom Meyers, David Lesondak and organizations like the International Fascia Research Congress, has the importance of this critical tissue begun to be examined. Globally, specialists have related fascia to mycelial networks in forests. Fascia connects everything in our body, not only is it our most heavily innervated tissue, it surrounds every other type of tissue we are made up of. This means it acts as an information super highway, carrying energetic impulses through and around our entire body. Making it a vast communication network and a place for stories to be held onto.
Our nervous system is what is creating and maintaining the narrative story that our bodies use to lead us through life. When we meet challenges or compensations in our nervous system these signals are relayed through and directly to our bodies fascia. These signals can then lead to restrictions in fascia which limit our potential for movement and ease. By listening directly to your system and intentionally addressing both fascia and the nervous system, what is possible becomes exponentially more exciting.
The fascia itself also has a critical role creating space in our bodies. The various layers and fibers running in and around everything makes up what is called interstitial space. It is in this interstitium where all the fluids not actively in our vasculature can be found. This interstitial fluid is key to keeping our tissue active and mobile. As they say motion is lotion, so keeping our tissue happy and hydrated leads to the ability for a greater range of possibility when it comes to movement. The more we are able to move with ease the greater our opportunity for spontaneous movement becomes.
Fascia also plays a key role in the majority of bodywork modalities we practice. A lot of the hands-on, more massage oriented modalities you’ll find here are based on the works of people like Ida Rolf, John Barnes, and Tom Meyers. All of whom teach/taught the importance of working with fascia and muscle to achieve lasting results for clients. Fluids accumulate in the interstitial space, so swelling and inflammation happens between layers of fascia. Manual Lymphatic Drainage relies on working with superficial fascia, just under the skin, where anchoring lines of fascia are utilized to open up lymphatic fluid collectors to promote drainage and a reduction in swelling and metabolic waste. Craniosacral therapy works with the connective tissue between the bones of the skull and around the brain and spinal cord, allowing for space and ease around the nervous system working toward balance and safety.
Since connective tissue surrounds everything from individual tissue fibers in the body, up to entire muscles, organ structures and bones. Working intentionally with fascia in any place in the body has the potential and ability to create change everywhere.