Myofascial Release

A specialized form of deep Massage

Myofascial Release helps free the body from chronic and accumulated tension. In addition to relieving local and acute muscular stress, over a series of fifteen massages it promotes long lasting relaxation and balance throughout the entire body structure.

During the course of our life the healthy balance between the demands of the culture we bear and our biological inclinations to prosper invariably swings to the extreme in either of the directions.

The excessive imbalance when allowed to persist produces various distortions of our body. These disembodiments with their accompanying aches and pains represent indicators of the degree of distress we are experiencing. They signal the potential for dis-ease to set in.

Our bodies may become frozen and twisted turning us away from life; collapsed and lose vitality resigning us to a listless life; compressed with thick muscular tensions that block natural mobility inclinations and lead to excessive submission to life with little or no joy; upwardly inflated by over aggrandizement and extension of our social personas to a point where breakdown is just around the corner, and stiff and rigid precluding flexibility and the liberation of genuine sensations that nourish joy of living . These disembodiments foretell progression toward our becoming machinelike and overfilled with responsibilities and a stance all but void of social sustenance. In this situation we are seldom nourished regardless of how much wealth and social status we attain.

These patterns persist over time reinforced by the norms of communities of practice to which we belong. As we cope with the demands of our participation in communities of practice organized around instrumental activities, our organic tendencies toward spontaneity and social gregarious are often inhibited by habituated, instrumental patterns of attending, perceiving, remembering, thinking, feeling, and acting. Usually we are unaware of a subtle, gradual coming about of a physical and mental posture supported by muscular armor. These personal stances with their accompanying muscular distortions significantly influence the ways in which we make sense of our personal and social worlds.

Steady progression toward these postural imbalances can be prevented and reversed. Myofascial Release begins by assessing and increasing a person’s awareness of armored sections of the body. Through a co-assessment of postural body distortions, a mutually agreed upon plan to deal with patterns of distress is constructed. The plan continues to evolve over the course of treatments as knowledge for dealing with mental and physical patterns of tensions is generated. The connective tissue or fascia, composed of thin, elastic, web-like material, which envelops and co-ordinates the muscles is gently stretched through deep breathing accompanied by massage directed toward releasing the tension and emotional pain held in prominent areas of tension revealed in the co-assessment.

The Myofascial Release directed toward deep reorganization of distorted muscular armor permits chronically over contracted muscles to relax and their opposing overstretched muscles to contract. When muscles are restored to a more balanced tone segments of the whole body are now able to better articulate with each other and form a better-integrated posture capable of more effectively bearing the body’s weight. Legs, pelvis, torso, neck, and head shift into a flexible alignment in which the energy flows more equally and freely to a place of balance that enables a person to inhabit the moment, feel alive, and experience the joy of living more robustly. Yet at the same time engage in the valid pursuit of instrumental activities with others in communities of practice making up our social world.