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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. Provide your body with the support t it needs to heal.

TWO Major Resources for Relief:


John Barns' Approach Myofascial Release for immediate relief

& Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® for longterm comfort

Enjoy private sessions AND experience lifelong improvement with self-care training


>>>The New Face of Self-Care! <<<


It's not enough to "get a session." And what do you do when the insurance runs out?


It's like food for your nervous system.

And as with nourishment, would it help you today if you ate broccoli once last year!?


Muscle injury sets up a compensation pattern.

Posture is a neurological pattern.

Coordination is a pattern based in accurate proprioception.

Learn to improve all three yourself.

Tools You Can Use


Enhance everything you do with a DIY process using movement

to rewire neurological habits of tension & pain.


Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement®

Transformative Neuromuscular Reprogramming

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

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.


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. Pain is a part of life. Suffering doesn't have to be.


I was release from 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 horses 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.

You don't have to be debilitated for life.

You can go back to doing the things you love! You can learn this easily...


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You Can Easily Do This! This is the opportunity that awaits you; when you truly feel what you are doing, you can change it easily. This means you adapt well. Your life is richer for being able to make fine distinctions. You learn to pursue what feels good, instead of mindlessly doing what you've always done...even if it makes you numb or stiff.

I have been teaching this ergonomic, easy way of walking, sitting and standing with Feldenkrais 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. Now I'm even more invested in chunking it down for you, so you can use it in your daily life. That way, when the insurance runs out, you have skills you need - for life.

Nowadays, I call my business Your Life Matters, because the work I do encompasses a much deeper relationship with consciousness, sentience and freedom. Because this is not just book learning, becauseI know first hand, how physical trauma can set you back on so many levels, I can help you shift your perception of what's possible. Your suffering matters. You matter, and you can be free to live a life you love, if you 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

Interoception Shows
When you heighten awareness of what you feel from within, you no longer have to survive going without...the help you need.

WHY DOES PAIN INCREASE GRADUALLY?

  • Compression on Joints
    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.
The Key to REDUCING Compression:
Healthy 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.
The Fascial Guide
Fascia compresses joints with the tensile strength of 2,000 lbs. of force.
When You Are In Active Pain, You Need A More Hands-On Approach:

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...

Hands-On Sessions


EXPERIENCE A REVOLUTION IN HEALTHCARE!

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."
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.

The ultimate response to injury that is safe,

gentle and consistently effective in producing results that last.

Gabrielle Pullen, MFA, LMT, GCFP
I have been a massage therapist for 25+ years. My first business was called Massageworks for Horse & Rider. For ten years I worked primarily with athletes both human and equine. That's where I began to understand the non-verbal element of physical trauma, which has become my main interest. 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. In 2,000, I took the four-year Feldenkrais® Training. It changed my understanding of how the body works forever and in such detail that I grew taller and my posture changed completely - all without consciously trying to do so, and without endless painful strength training. I was saving all my extra energy for riding horses. That has been my jam over a lifetime...
If You've Had a Surgery
In this x-ray of my leg, just below the knee you can see the pins and plates...
I have stood in your shoes...

In 2022, I fell off a box that tipped. The side of my shin hit the corner of the box and had to be reconstructed. I was unable to walk for four months. I did 24 physical therapy appointments and they pronounced me good to go.
I learned so much from that experience: I learned that a surgery, especially one that cuts into the lymph and nerve (which was considered "collateral damage") can exacerbate older injuries that seemed to be healed beforehand. I discovered the profound insecurity that comes of not feeling safe taking a shower, for fear of slipping and experiencing that level of pain again. I experienced the feeling of incompetence that comes from being unable to reach my own toes to tend to the toenails....These are all things we take for granted.

The fear of falling is real when you know you don't have the immediate response of your reflexes to help you find your balance if it's raining, icy or if there's mud outside. It's visceral. You feel it throughout your entire body.

Once I regained that capacity to stand, step down and walk on uneven or muddy ground with confidence, it changed me. I used to be the diplomat. But this experience put fire in my gut. It made me much more direct than ever before: if you don't make sure you can continue to have normal function, you will pay for it in gradually increasing fear and instability. No one is immune. And there IS a point of no return. If you wait until your are 70 to try to improve your balance, your reflexes and your flexibility, you will wake up one day to find your shoulder live up by your ears, you can't get out of a chair without using your arms, and your balance is precarious because your feet are basically almost numb.

I had a much higher standard for mobility than the professionals who treated me. I knew more than enough about what's possible and what constitutes normal mobility. So much so that I was angered by their indifference to the gap between my hard-won range of motion and normal range of motion. This is not because they were not skilled at what they do. It's because they just assume that without their intervention I wouldn't have been able to walk at all. They dealt with the pathology. But the system has no answer. They stop helping you heal once the initial diagnosis has been addressed. They ignore the way compensation patterns cause new pain later on. It has to be a new claim...as if it had nothing to do with the original cause. You're on your own, except when you find people like me who care more about what's possible than what people tell you is impossible.

I've always been this way: a hopeless dreamer who will go out on a limb for the people who come to me.

And now, I'm on a mission let others experience two somatic solutions that made such a huge difference.

Not only did I train and work in both for 25+ years, I also put them both to the acid test and they did not falter.

  • With John Barns Approach Myofascial Release, I was able to release the scar tissue that was causing the bottom of my foot to swell every night, which made standing extremely painful. It also help free the restrictions in my knee that kept it from bending completely because there was the physical restriction of connective tissue guarding the joint with the tensile strength of steel. And it works with much less pain. If you are sick of pain, this is for you.
  • With Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement. I was able to reprogram the compensation patterns from being on crutches, limping, and wincing whenever I had to step down onto the door stoop to go outside. I was able to do the neurological reprogramming that I couldn't learn from conventional musculoskeletal health professionals. Their model of the body is limited to what is broken. It does not extend to optimal function. In fact, if you aren't broken, you get kicked out of the system. If you are passionately stubborn and interested learning what you can do to heal yourself, this is for you.



No one can take this away from you:

Relinquish Trauma

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You are the one who has the power of choice.




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