Why Release Fascia?

​Have you ever wondered why should you release your fascia whether through private one-on-one sessions or through self-treatments at home?  What's the purpose of working with this connective tissue? And how will it serve you to better your overall health?  
For me these are such big questions partly due to the fact that fascia is such a new discovery in the world of science and partly due to the journey that fascial release is.  My idea with this blog is to keep it simple and to just touch the iceberg of why release fascia.

• Loosing and releasing your fascia allows for more space in your body.  This space allows for you to move with more range and ease.
• Allowing for your fascia to shift, reorganize and release helps balance your posture.  And 99% of the time when posture is off discomfort and/or pain are experienced.  This discomfort/pain may be felt now and it may be felt in 5 to 10 years from now, posture is so important!!!
• Releasing your fascia allows for less tension in your body.  Feeling less tension usually means feelings of freedom and harmony within!
• When working and releasing fascia we are able to work all the way down to the cellular level in your body.
• Releasing fascia helps break holding patterns.  When holding patterns, usually from repetitive movements, are broken posture improves and discomfort/pain decrease.  
• Opening up and allowing your fascia to release helps not only create a physical sense of freedom and space in your body but also an emotional release.  Did you know that emotions are held in your fascia?
• Releasing fascia can help past traumas let go and move on. 
• Fascial release, or myofascial release, helps you as a whole person move through unconscious motions and allows for you to connect different areas of your body that need to be released that you may not have known before.
• Simply put...why release your fascia...why go in for a private session and why self-treat because it is relaxing and helps you feel from what needs to shift in your body!

Now let's swing back to self-treatment and a tip of the month!!!
Self-treating is not about going to the max.  If you go to end range what you are doing is usually not possible to stay in that pose for 3-5 minutes, and without the timing self-myofascial release doesn't have a chance to occur.  So, remember to start off easy.  Just go to the feelings of starting to feel the stretch or compression.  The idea is to sit with the pose, tap into your body, notice not just the area you are working on but other areas in your body as well.