Fascial Threads & Present-Day Connection
There are billions of stories carried in our bodies. All of these stories link into our fascial intelligence. Not only is fascia intelligent this connective tissue stores our memories. These memories are our stories. They are what makes us, us, you, you and me, me!
I found MFR because I had lower back pain going on for four years. I share below a few pictures of where I was, at Dog Mountain Sanctury, all the dogs at the facility have been rescued from the dog meat trade, in the Philippines, when I slipped on a wet floor and fell from a straight standing position flat onto the entire back side of my body. I was rushing, many years later realizing this is how many injuries happen. The older lady in one of the pictures she had 15 dogs at the sanctuary that she was visiting. She told me she had lived in the US for a while and I had this urge to get a picture with her. I rushed back to my room and forgot we had just mopped the floor outside of my room. The floor was very wet and as I was rushing up the stairs and came to the top I immediately fell. I obviously got my picture, the one on the left, with this lady!!!
Like a car accident I didn’t feel the impact until about 48 hours later. I remember waking up two days later and thinking how am I going to sit up in bed and once I did then how am I going to stand up. I was in extreme pain which was nothing I had ever experienced before. One of the ladies running the sanctuary took me to a nearby village to receive bodywork from a lady. At the time this lady, pictured below on the right, saved me!!! After two weeks of volunteering at the sanctuary, I continued on my travels and over the years I thought I’d live with this pain for my whole life. This happened in 2012.
I had my first MFR session in early 2017 and over the course of many years received countless sessions eventually feeling a lot of physical, emotional, and spiritual freedom through the work. Yet it wasn’t until late last year that I connected back into the dogs and the sanctuary. I’ve connected often into the physical pain, the motion of the fall yet never the mountains, the dogs and all the emotions of why I was there and the fall changing my life. During one-on-one sessions emotions and movement of this accident have processed through me numerous times. Late last year I happen to be out of the country in Costa Rica at an MFR self-care retreat in the mountains. Maybe it was the reflection of out of the country in a developing country and the mountains plus being around safe supportive people that allowed the dogs to resurface in my fascial system, in my body. The following day after this came up for me, it was our last full day together and we spent a lot of time in self-care group outside. And what happens during this time…the dogs started barking. There were dogs somewhere out there and they barked and WOW!!! There are no words to describe all these internal connections that happened. I’m definitely not finished with this process yet I will write here I do feel a sense of finally being able to connect more into my story of who I am today, feel more and be more fully present in my life.
