MyoFascia Release (MFR) and Therapeutic Touch

Re-Establish the Flow of Your Innate Aliveness and Wellbeing

You may have heard that the body holds the memories of what happened in our life. Like the rings of a tree which records years of high nutrients and those of drought, our own bodies are the keepers of our past experiences and of our resilient adaptations to those events within the patterns stored in the fascial system.
MFR provides a gentle and powerful way of releasing outdated patterns of relating to yourself, others, and life as a whole, allowing for new roads to be opened in your system through which energy and information may flow in new ways.

Release old habitual blocks and repattern your mind-body system

What is the Fascial System and what does it have to do with our sense of Self and capacity for Choice?

The fascia is one single organ, a 3-Dimensional web that surrounds, envelops, and connects everything in our physical selves. It hold and embeds our bones, organs, muscle fibers, down to the interstitial space between cells themselves, allowing energy and information to move throughout our whole organism. In its most healthy state, the fascia is fluid and adaptable, it helps us to understand our internal interoceptive states, self-regulate back to a state of balance,  and make unified, whole-body choices accordingly.

The fascia’s job is to help us adapt and survive, at any cost. Unexplored, those adaptations become habitual patterns that limit our joy and our freedom.

When an impact to the system happens, whether from a physical or emotional/psychological source, our fascia receives the hit and helps us to cope and adapt in order to survive another day. In an ideal scenaio, we would then allow the body’s wisdom to take over to rest, recover, discharge remaining activation from the system, and heal. But in our current society we have by and large forgotten how to listen to the wisdom of our self-healing systems and we often repress its innate healing process in favor of more productivity and ongoing social performance. Those patterns of pain then begin to harden into habits, and habits into rigid characters of pre-determined responses to life. We begin to react to life through the habitual way in which we have been protecting ourselves for so long and we loose our spacious awareness of the present and with it our true choice and our freedom.

What is the Barnes’ MyoFascial Release (MFR) Approach?

The Spiritual Dimensions of MFR

Perhaps there is a good reason for our collective forgetting of how to heal. Perhaps we have reached the end of the line when it comes to moving through this life as a Single Player game. We need each other, we need the mutual gift of loving presence to move to the next stage of human evolution on this planet. And so many, if not all, of the pains held in our bodies and psyches seem to be rooted in our resistance to life, our distorted stories, and our sense of not-belonging or not being safe with the “other” who we still blame for our suffering.

As many practitioners, including myself, have experienced first hand, when we hold loving presence, especially through caring touch, magic happens. Finally held in the loving witnessing presence of another, which we desperately craved at the time something painful happened, our innate capacity to honor our experience and release it comes back online. And I do personally believe that kind of mutual magic is our uniquely human gift, our divine nature.

What is our perception of stuckness and suffering was actually just a pinching off of our divine nature? What if our blocks were simply blocks in our capacity to forgive ourselves and each other?