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The Key to Pain Free Living:
What is Fascia?
There is no cell in the body that is not surrounded by fascia; a network of fluidly changing support. The network, like a white covering, is similar in organization to the white sheaths that surround sections of an orange. These layers glide freely over each other and stretch in any direction as needed for ease of movement when healthy. They protect organs, soft tissue and bone by redistributing force and weight throughout the entire system. They are incredibly light, but with the strength of 2,000 lbs. of pressure. At the microscopic level, they are fluid filled microtubules which lubricate.

But when the fascia of the tiny muscles between vertebrae are dehydrated, or harden to protect from a sudden impact or excessive stress, over time there is massive pressure on nerves and pain sensors. Thus, as people age, nine times out of ten, the pain is an overall, systemic compression of the fascial system.
Pain Caused by Compression of the Joints
Fascia compresses joints with the tensile strength of 2,000 lbs. of force.

WHY A GRADUAL INCREASE OF PAIN OVER TIME?

  • JOINT PAIN due to Compression
    WHEN fascia hardens around any injury, it can cause huge pressure on the muscles that cross the joint to provide it with stability. As the fascial sheaths around each and every muscle, nerve and veinous pathway are compressed, there is less circulation of nutrients, oxygen, and vital fluids.
People who have chronic pain know that there are many kinds of pain...the "bad" pain of straining a muscle vs. the "good" pain of release, for example. This holds true for physical pain AND emotional pain. Chronic pain and emotional trauma almost never show up in isolation from each other. Remember, the heart is a muscle which can also be strained beyond endurance! Provide your body with the environment it needs to find a way to heal again.

TWO Options: Myofascial Release & Feldenkrais®


for immediate relief & for longterm comfort

The BASICS of Alignment
Case Studies: How Myofascial Release Can Relieve Pain From Compensation Patterns, Injury & Gradual Decrepitude
John F. Barnes, the Physical Therapist who refined Myofascial Release (MFR) to be far more effective than what usually passes as MFR, puts it this way, "Nothing shuts down the flow of energy in the therapeutic intervention quicker or more completely than talking, thinking, or if the patient is bracing against sensations that may be arising for them. Therefore, it is important for the patient to soften and understand the concept of therapeutic pain - that it will not injure them and will help them understand that the energy flows in silence. As the therapist expands their focus and flows with the patient, they also will retain a narrow focus and complete awareness of the present moment."
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Muscle Pain Resolved √

After seven years working as a Licensed Massage Therapist - which is very physical work - I added the four-year Feldenkrais® Training to ensure I could continue to work


->>> even with 3 major whiplash injuries.


From that Training, I learned that there is a way to work with YOURSELF that can keep you feeling agile and free in mind and body


->>>until the day you die.


I was able to release seven years of whiplash pain from


  1. slamming into the steel bumper of a truck with no lights or cones disabled on a dark country road
  2. being hit by a drunk driver while sitting at a stop light in a VW Wagon I had just bought the day before
  3. a major car accident - sliding on black ice into a tree at 60 mph while pregnant

- and continue working, riding and skiing without pain.


It took four years to learn the Feldenkrais Method® as a profession: why? Because they don't let you teach it UNLESS you know how to embody it. It let me to find a relationship with alignment and gravity within myself that allowed me to recover from musculoskeletal injuries that debilitate most people for life. Most people with my injuries cannot do much at all, let alone do the things they love! Yet, if you stick with me, you can learn this easily...


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Myofascial Release

Find A New Level of Comfort
In Your Body

By releasing fascial restrictions that pull the entire structure out of alignment, a sense of ease is regained as Right Relationship with Gravity is restored. When the body is aligned, Gravity is your friend: it's a stabilizing force that your nervous system recognizes as a sense of safety in space.


With ideal Alignment, the weight of your head sits over the center of mass between your belly and your sacrum about four inches below the belly button. Also, known as the Dan Tien in Qigong, or the Hara in Karate, when this is aligned, it allows for free, flowing, effortless movement...

Case Study #2 Front View:
Before & AFTER Myofascial Release
Case Study #2 Side View:
Before & AFTER Myofascial Release
I can help you in a way that doctors, chiropractors, physical therapists, orthopedic surgeons and osteopaths can't:

I can give you the knowledge to heal yourself...regain sovereignty over you musculoskeletal wellness!
FAQ's
  • Q: Ok, so what's the difference between MFR & JFB Myofascial Release?
    John F Barnes is more effective because it works with the fascia in the only that allows it to respond: over time. Most therapies are in too much of a hurry and it doesn't hold. Furthermore, often they use too much, too soon, too fast. The pressure must meet the fascial restriction barrier with mindful attention to the entire body/mind web for at least 5 minutes. This is what allows the mucopolysaccharide gel of the fascial web to literally “melt” or change into less solid, more fluid gel, thus allowing the collagen to become unstuck to itself and the elastin to elongate back to its pre-shortened length. At the cellular level interstitial flow of nutrients and oxygen is restored the capillaries, rehydrating tissue and opening up the compressed area.

    Previous approaches tend to tear the cross links of the fascia, which may actually increase inflammation. It is only after 3-5 minutes that interleukins, or messenger molecules are released which are anti-inflammatory. Excretion of wastes and permeability of cells are restored. These principles provide for lasting success in opening up fascial restrictions. The trauma is effectively release from your tissues.

  • Q: How do I know if this is the best option?
    There are tons of choices in healthcare, and when we are in pain, it is often hard to even have the energy to do the research, much less know what the options are, and then “pick the right one." As someone who has spent my entire professional career as a bodyworker curating the most effective ways to improve outcomes, you are in good hands. I have curated the best work, studied it and worked with thousands of people over 25 years and can attest to the power of MFR personally.
  • Q: Does MFR involve force?
    It turns out that the Nervous System will only contract if force is used. The JFB Myofascial Release approach only uses as much pressure as needed to allow the fascial system to open up. In fact, it is only by releasing the need to make it happen, to force things and by being completely present to what you are feeling that you can become free of old patterns that restrict you.
  • Q: What does MFR do for Trauma?
    MFR is known as a therapy that is able to help people when nothing else has worked. Trauma is stored in the body as an unreleased energetic charge. A deer paralyzed in the headlights suddenly springs into action at some point and flees the scene faster than thought. Trauma itself happens faster than thought. It's pre-verbal. That's why MFR is so effective in releasing it: it happens without words, without drugs, without logic, because this kind of pain is not governed by logic. The refreshing thing is that I go into those places of serious pain with you until they let go. You are no longer alone with the pain and for that reason, the mind/body matrix is able to feel safer in the process, and respected in a way that makes it possible to go where it seemed impossible to go before - into a place of total release.
Gabrielle Pullen, MFA, LMT, GCFP
I have been a massage therapist for 25 years. My business started out as Massageworks for Horse & Rider and for ten years I worked primarily with athletes both human and equine. That's where I began to understand the non-verbal element of trauma, which has become my main interest: how to release trauma without having to rehash the past. Myofascial Release (MFR) was one of the first modalities I fell in love with, in addition to Trigger Point Therapy and Deep Tissue. But at at that time, in 1997, MFR had not yet evolved fully, because we did not yet have all the new diagnostics that allow us to see into living tissue. As an athlete myself, an event rider, I had a personal investment in finding the most powerful ways available to keep the body agile, strong and injury free for the duration, not just temporarily.

Successive Physical & Emotional Trauma
But I had not yet endured the most difficult of trials: the death of my grown daughter of a drug overdose, while her "friends" were downstairs partying...She was a free spirit, yes, but no one deserves that.

A few years later, it was lies and the betrayal that took me out, not grief.

I fell while I was doing work the contractor had pretended he would do...and destroyed the bone below my knee. After reconstructive surgery of my lower leg, I was unable to walk for four months and spent another three months learning how to walk again. Since then, I have gone back and retrained in MFR which is how I discovered the magic of the new iteration of this work which allows trauma to exit the body, so that a return to the playful, creative, enjoyment of life that I knew as a child is again accessible to me.
There's an old saying that resentment like shooting yourself in the foot. In this case, the thing that I was standing on thing fell over and I had to get my left leg surgically reconstructed with five screws and two metal plates. After four months on my back, I had to learn how to stand and walk again.

But now I know what it means to move with awareness from the perspective of the client. Now I have a profound understanding of the way resentment comes back to bite you if left untended, and of the importance of remaining calm, even when life feels overwhelmingly unfair. You can learn this, too.

This is the opportunity that awaits you; the silver lining:

Not only having I been teaching people the most ergonomic, easy ways of walking, sitting and standing with the Feldenkrais Method since 2004, but now I have the experience of the pain of the rehabilitation process. Now, I know what it takes at a much deeper level and how to chunk it down to teach you self-care, so that when the insurance runs out, you have skills and tools for maintaining your own health. Take this amazing opportunity to feel better as soon as you get started!

Nowadays, I call my business Your Life Matters, because the work I am dedicated to encompasses a much deeper relationship with consciousness, sentience and freedom, and I know, first hand, how trauma can set you back. Know that you're suffering matters, that you matter, and that you can be free to live a life you love if you take the first step and trust the process. I can't wait to share this work with you - happiness is an inside job and it requires being able to feel good in your body!

~Gabrielle


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