Two of the most important belief systems I check in on regularly are having positive belief and generating gratitude. To believe is to be open and curious to positive possibilities unseen. To believe in healing is to see it happening. There have been countless times that belief has been proven to affect all things. A willingness to see the future as better, to set a goal and will it into being. Against all odds to strive and be driven by the belief it will be so, to try and try again. My teacher Carlos Rosas, creator of NIA would say, there is no try, there is only do, or do not. Athlete’s visualizations help them to achieve through their imaginations. Children are seeing with their light, reading blindfolded with Extra Ocular Vision-EOV ( You can look it up on Youtube.)  It’s Third Eye Training. There are heightened senses available, if you believe. You can heal your body through the belief, that your body will and can heal. Chances are best if you believe you can. 

Confidence is everything, when we take time to give to our bodies we give gratitude to ourselves. When we offer gratitude we naturally look for the best in our circumstances. We look for the gift and opportunity. We see the creation all around us and tap into the growth and expansive nature of the Gaia mother world and generate a feeling of being connected. We are uplifted when we give thanks for the abundance of food, shelter, clothing, friendships, animals, night sky, brilliant sunsets, in the eyes of our beloved, this community, these beautiful children. Giving gratitude to self brings good things to you.

Self Love.

In Gratitude we offer our breath to these sacred tissues of our own body. The revolutionary act of sending unconditional love to the body as is. Even if we have conditioning that makes it more difficult to love ourselves with the currency of attention. To take time to acknowledge the strong sensations as we trust the pain, the wrapped up mind as we unravel to feel what's real in the body, the landscape. When we can learn to presence in the tissue we can change shapes and practice body awareness. So we can be with them and feel them. The body is calling you home. This body of water. This fluid hydrated fascial body of a web of geometrical shapes continuously forever changing shapes relayed information to move. The question becomes how do you move in space as your body of water. How do you make yourself connected to your body, to all of it.

You listen. 

You go internal. Touch is one of the most important and often neglected areas of our lives in this individualized society. Touch helps relax the nervous system so it is reassured. MFR touch is not painful, it is slow, it is deeply relaxing and the body gets listened to, which it absolutely loves. The body parts that were moments ago rigid are unwinding under my hands. They are moving into a more functional relation with neighbors, they are going back home to their right place and the body becomes plumb and true. Lines of fascial planes unwind and soften, the hydraulic shock absorbing medium of your body is fine tuned, it is harmonized.

When we’ve had trauma and continue to have strong symptoms and diagnoses we can become chronically afraid of pain, our nervous system is restrained and fear then multiplies fear. The brain is proven to have a negative feedback loop, and we can actually tell the body it’s having pain with our brains when the body is no longer experiencing the pain. When we have pain we can isolate and we can not inhabit the body which can cause us to dissociate from our bodies. We vacate. We don’t pay attention to the posture, we lump, we autopilot, we lean all the way over the edge of the hip so we through the back into more of an s curve. We compensate and move away from the pain naturally, the result is leaving when your injury needs you to stay and inhabit the tissue. To pay closer attention and be present in the earth of your body. To move the energy inside of you. With MFR the injured area can experience increased space and volume with a hydrated tone in the tissues instead of becoming weak and atrophied which further carries the asymmetry and imbalance. Release myofascial restrictions to restore the free flow state ~the Sol state. 

It’s time to restore and tend to your injuries, especially if they are old, or chronic. A strong current of fear can send the nervous system into fight, flight, fawn or freeze. Your muscles can lock down and become hyper tense. The fascia is where memories are stored in the body. Your fascia can freeze frame the events from trauma in the tissues. Fear of moving your body when you’re in your pain pattern can further exacerbate the issues. This may have happened to most of us at one time. Our back goes out and you can barely bend over, anywhere you move seems to be worse and maybe you’re bed bound. Or your neck is tweaked and you can’t turn it. Frozen. 

With MFR you can live your best life and get these issues treated so they don’t become big issues later. When your feeling good is a perfect time to get your fascia restrictions freed up. Your hip height can affect the spine which most likely is deviated, twisted out of alignment in a way that’s furthering the dysfunction, and you could catch it now. With MFR we establish symmetry in the spine to unwind scoliosis before it becomes an issue that affects your whole life experience. Your quality of life is greatly affected by the level of pain you’re in. You deserve to feel pain free and to be able to do all your activities, work, play, love. Myofascial Release releases restrictions so you can have mobility, full range of movement without the pain. Greatly reduces inflammation, eliminates and integrates scar tissue. 

Tension patterns are no joke. 

Fascial restrictions can have a tensile strength of up to 2000 LB PSI of pressure per square inch. That’s like an internal straight jacket made of glue that can harden, It can pull on sensitive structures like cells including nerve cells, from the individual cell and every time there is an addition to the cell with another, this too is wrapped in fascia. Fascial restrictions can cause cellular dysfunction. The Fascial system is the mother of all systems: respiratory, circulatory,, skeletal, lymph, endocrine, digestive, muscular, Integument, reproductive. Every smallest part of you is made up of 28-36 billion cells. Did you know women have 28 and men have 32 billion. All of these cells are passed in a variety of fluids. Fluids are also fascia, a different density and all of these systems are influenced to positive structural change with MFR. Myofascial Release reorganizes in a gentle highly effective technique that helps the organism adapt to a new more in alignment position in space. With tissue reorganized to better relate to gravity, to become more spring loaded and pliable. To build and stack in a way that creates ease and grace in the structure. MFR creates more space and room in the body, so the essence self can breathe. 

Having access to awareness and presence tools in Presence Centered Awareness Therapy allows you to access your consciousness~ held in the fascia and Be with your whole human experience. People report more freedom and peace and more being themselves, their change in perspective allows for trauma to be seen, felt, heard and acknowledged, and as we center in this presence that holds the space… we can fully feel the unfinished business…the pain, stored emotions, mental patterns and inevitably when it is truly felt 100%, it changes, dissipates, it is free, free from the body and moved. What is left is that room, the room to have new experiences instead of creating and suffering the same. Awareness heals creates more possibilities and choices. 

By choosing to anchor in this loving field of compassionate peace that is reasonless love, you have access. Awareness of being, That is beyond identity, strategy, duality, value, organization, fear, safety, that witnesses from a place of non judgment. Observation inspires an artistic viewpoint, it invites curiosity and exploration. By centering in a space of being less attached to our senses, thoughts and feelings, while simultaneously allowing ourselves to feel them deeply, completely. Self compassion transforms and we can finally Let go.  

Myofascial Release has made many walk again. I have seen miracles. The results are incredible. Your belief in your healing matters. Your gratitude can be breathed into your tissues. Tell your body thank you. You’re a miracle. All systems can be treated. Fascia is Awesome. I have a really awesome vid of living fascia under a microscope and a very sciency (I’m a geek I love fascia) 30 minute video on my website look me up, my business name dot com. I actually go to sleep to Strolling Under the Skin by Dr. Jean-Claude Guimberteau, I like to imagine the fractal nature of fascia as I go to sleep. Bless your tissues. 

Angela Rose is an injury specialist and a Myofascial Release Therapist. She practices in Grass Valley at Sol Bodyworks. She works with clients who have severe conditions and helps to restore mobility and function with more freedom and peace in the heart and mind. She practices both MFR and PCAT. Presence Centered Awareness Therapy & Bodywork to create transformation. Her clients find the relief they’re looking for.