Fascial Unwinding

Discover the Health Benefits of Connecting With Your Body's Spontaneous Movement Process

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Is Fascial Unwinding Right For Me or My Child? Do you or your child experience spontaneous movements like figitting, shaking, or muscle tightening when you are at rest? Are you tired of lifting weights to get strong or stretching to get flexible? Are you interested in working with your body in more intuitive ways that helps you enhance recovery and self-knowledge of oneself? You may love our fascial unwinding programs.

What is Fascial Unwinding: Fascial Unwinding is a general term used to describe the facilitation or allowance of unconscious, involuntary movements by an individual. The movements experienced during fascial unwinding are spontaneous, similar to yawning, and feel as though they are occurring outside a person's experience. These movement experiences can also be facilitated passively by a therapist. Spontaneous movements often reveal patterns of muscular tension, a history of trauma, or other protective strategies and behaviors the body may have developed in the past. These movements are often reported to feel "intuitive" or even mystical, but also effortless, followed by muscular softening and rich, new multi-sensory surprises.

How Do We Help Your Body To Start Unwinding?

The techniques we use to help individuals "unwind" and begin interacting with their body's natural spontaneous movement process can include both hands-on and hands-off methods. This way, you can choose what works best for you. The process requires sensory input from outside the body to initiate the unwinding experience. Once this happens, your body, through complex feedback loops involving both fascia and the nervous system, is supported by us to help sustain the process.

With our hands-on techniques, we will help you experience these spontaneous movements by guiding your body to find movements of ease with subtle resistance and input to your nervous system. As we listen to your fascia, we respond to your body by directly supporting your unconscious movement patterns, allowing you to more efficiently work with your body's postural tone and engage more intuitively with unconscious movements.

With our hands-off approach, we provide cues and guidance strategies to help you work with and respond to your fascia and nervous system in the moment. Using gravity, feedback, and body responses, we will assist you in creating greater support and ease through your movement practice.

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What Are The Benefits of Fascial Unwinding? Fascial Unwinding and activating your body's spontaneous movements involve working directly with your fascial system, central nervous system (CNS), and autonomic nervous system (ANS) simultaneously. Fascial Unwinding works amazingly on its own, but also as a complementary technique when combined with other approaches such as physical therapy, sports training, and other top-down training strategies. Because the fascial system, CNS, and ANS are all involved together in complex relationships that facilitate total body communication, development, and self-regulation, often changes can occur throughout the body, including things like:

Reduced Nervous System Stress and Muscular Tension
Better Management of Symptoms
Improved Emotional Regulation
Greater Tissue Subtly & Extensibility
Supported and Ease of Posture
Improved Sleep
Reduction of Pain
Shape Changes
Better Sleep
Greater Body "Lightness"
Greater Movement Ease
Groundedness
Enhanced Proprioception/Balance
Enhanced Body Awareness

What Sensations or Movements May I Experience in a Fascial Unwinding Session? Fascial Unwinding is unique to each person, and given the uniqueness of each person's body and history, there are many sensory and motor experiences that can be experienced during a session. Because Fascial Unwinding is also a live, in-the-moment experience, this process may reveal or unlock other bodily movements and sensations that are sometimes unconcious to the individual. For many, these new sensations—or what we sometimes call emergent sensoy-motoro experiences—are one of the hallmarks of this work and are what many people come to love about this self-exploratory and healing process. They include, but are not limited to:

Gentle Tremoring
Involuntary Muscular Contractions
Shaking
Rhythmical Movements and Oscillations
Self-Stretching
Spiraling Movements
Body Shapes Changes
Vocalizations
Memory Recall
Heightened Emotions
Self-Mobilizations
Muscular Tension Release
Heaviness & Lightness
Warmth & Cold Changes
Vivid Imagery
Sense of New Support or Strength
Trance Like Sensations
Mystical-like Perceptions

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Our Intention With Your Attention:

Even though there are many benefits associated with both fascial unwinding and engaging with your body's spontaneous movements, our intention throughout the entire process is to support your body's intuitive sense of knowing and guide you in your own unique process toward greater ease and wholeness in movement. Our focus is to help each individual further develop their own self-practice, guiding them to discover and explore their truest inner sensations without being preoccupied with previous expectations of the mind or unexperienced end results.

Fascial Unwinding is a special and unique process that can be safely and easily learned by both children and adults for health benefits. For some of our patients who feel they have run out of tools or where therapy has not taken them to the level they need, we often find Fascial Unwinding offers a different and more personalized whole-body healing approach.

We combine Fascial Unwinding with many of our other services, including Manual Therapy, Safe and Sound Protocol, Traumatic Release Exercise, Physical Therapy, and Neuroplasticity Training. It is a process that continues to unfold, offering those who use it a sensory and motor experience like no other. For many of our patients, it has become a powerful tool they continue to use for self-care and routine balancing.

If you are interested in finding out more, please drop us a line. We'd love to chat with you about how we can help bring the health benefits of Fascial Unwinding and working with spontaneous movements into your or your child's life