WI Center for Myofascial Release

06/11/2026

Would you like to see firsthand how the rescue operates? Want to assist in demonstrating bodywork for horses? This is your sign! Sign up now to help at our Vendor Fair and Yoga On The Farm event on June 20th! 🍀🐴

Please review the available slots below and click on the button to sign up. You may sign up for multiple shifts, or various jobs, just note the times to prevent overlapping. Let's all make this a fantastic event! Thank you!

04/30/2026

Beautiful description of Myofascial Release!

What if the body communicates through more than just nerves?

Emerging research is exploring fascia—the connective tissue web that surrounds every muscle, organ, vessel, and cell—as a dynamic communication network throughout the body. Rather than being “packing material,” fascia may play a major role in coordination, signaling, tension balance, movement efficiency, and whole-body awareness.

Fascia is continuous from head to toe. When one area becomes restricted from trauma, surgery, stress, repetitive strain, or inflammation, that tension can ripple through the system causing up to 2000 lbs per square inch of pressure, not detected by any imaging.

This may help explain why unresolved restrictions can show up as:
✨chronic pain
✨stiffness
✨poor posture
✨fatigue
✨nervous system dysregulation
✨symptoms far from the original source

With Myofascial Release, gentle sustained pressure helps the body soften restrictions, restore glide, improve hydration, and support better communication throughout the fascial web.

The future of healing may not just be about isolated parts—it may be about restoring connection through the whole system.

Your body is always communicating. The question is: are we listening?

04/25/2026

Singing bowls can help create a calm, grounded space; allowing the nervous system to soften and the body to release. Horses often respond with deep breaths, lowered heads, and a quiet presence. I loved the curious look on baby Gizmo’s face!

03/11/2026

What the fascia people have been saying all along!

THE GHOST ORGAN THAT WAS ALWAYS THERE.

imagine opening a 2015 anatomy book You'll see skin, then fat, then muscle. All packed up like solid dense layers. Now throw that book away.. I was wrong.

Until very recently, histologists (scientists who study tissue) prepared samples by drying them and fixing them in microscopes. By doing so, they destroyed the actual structure. The spaces were collapsing.

In 2018, thanks to new live endomicroscopy technologies, we discovered Interstition.

We ain't "solid". Underneath your skin, covering your arteries, your lungs, and your muscles, there is a massive network of interconnected compartments filled with liquid. It's like a global hydraulic damper. A highway of fluids that connects everything to everything.

Why is this revolutionary in 2026?.

The route of metastasis: It has been found that

cancer cells often don't travel through blood or lymph initially, but rather use these "highways" of the interstice to move quickly between tissues. Understanding this is changing oncology.

Validation of Ancestral: For thousands of years, Traditional Chinese Medicine spoke of "Meridians" or energy channels (Qi) that did not correspond to nerves or veins. Western science was mocking. Today, many researchers propose that the Interstition, with its high electrical conductivity thanks to the fluid rich in electrolytes, could be the physical anatomical base of those meridians. Acupuncture needle doesn't poke a nerve; it stimulates the facial/interstitial network, sending mechanical signals throughout the system.

Your body is a continuous hydraulic system. The stiffness in your ankle can affect your neck because the fluid network is the same. The "stagnation" of fluids that the Ancients spoke of now has a scientific name.

Keeping this organ healthy is vital. How? Hydration and Movement. The interstition needs you to move to pump its fluids. If you stay still, it becomes sticky, dense, and toxic.

You're 70% water, but that water ain't stuck in a bucket. It's flowing through a sacred, complex architecture that we're just beginning to understand.

TIP YOURSELF (Facial Health):

"To keep your interstition fluent and avoid morning stiffness:

Hydration with Electrolytes: Water alone isn't enough. Interstitial fluid is rich in salts. Add a pinch of sea salt to your water.

Bounce (Rebounding): Gentle jumps or oscillatory movements help move interstitial fluid better than static cardio.

Myofascial Release: Using foam rollers helps rehydrate these compressed layers of tissue. "

Source 📚: Scientific Reports, "Structure and Distribution of an Unrecognized Interstitial Space in Human Tissues". / Updates 2025 on Fascial Research.

02/19/2026

Spending the next 4 days in a cranial nerve seminar through The Upledger Institute! 🧠

The cranial nerves control many of the most essential functions in the body, including facial movement, swallowing, vision, hearing, balance, digestion, heart rate, and how calm or stressed your nervous system feels (especially through the vagus nerve).

Because they connect the brain to the face, throat, organs, and sensory systems, even subtle tension or restriction can affect the whole body.

This is some of my favorite work! ❤️

01/25/2026

Fascia, as explained by John Barnes, PT, many years ago:

The Importance of Myofascial Release


Fascia is tough, connective tissue that spreads throughout the body in a three-dimensional web from head to foot without interruption. The fascia surrounds every muscle, bone, nerve, blood vessel and organ of the body, all the way down to the cellular level. Therefore, malfunction of the fascial system due to trauma, surgery or inflammation can create a binding down of the fascia, resulting in abnormal pressure on nerves, muscles, bones or organs.

It is believed that an extremely high percentage of people suffering with pain, unwanted premature effects of aging and/or lack of motion may be having myofascial problems. These individuals go undiagnosed, as the importance of fascia is just now being recognized. All of the standard tests, such as X-rays, myelograms, CAT scans and electromyography, do not show myofascial restrictions. Fascial restrictions can exert tremendous tensile forces on the fascial, neuromusculoskeletal and pain-sensitive structures. This enormous pressure (approximately 2,000 pounds per square inch) can create the symptoms of pain, decreased muscular tone in the face and neck, or chronic facial tension.

Fascia at the cellular level creates the interstitial spaces and has extremely important functions of support, protection, separation, cellular respiration, nutrition, elimination, metabolism, fluid and lymphatic flow. In other words, the fascia is the immediate environment of every cell of the body. This means that any trauma, surgery or malfunction of the fascia can set up the environment for poor cellular efficiency, necrosis, disease, pain and dysfunction throughout the face, neck and body.

Traumatic or surgical scars can be a problem because they tend to grow inside the body of an individual, in a unique pattern similar to a vine. Scars you see on the surface are just the tip of the iceberg. As scars begin to pull on pain-sensitive structures, they can create pain and deepen the lines of the face, making one look older than necessary.

There are a number of reasons for scars to form. They can be the result of surgery, infection, tissue inflammation or injuries. A scar can appear anywhere on the body. In addition, the composition of scars can vary. They can be sunken, lumpy, colored or flat; they can also be painful and itchy.

One of the most beneficial therapies for scars is myofascial release, which is a gentle, hands-on technique that has been proven to be highly effective in reducing pain, headaches, fibromyalgia, minimizing scars and in increasing tone of the face and neck areas, producing a more youthful appearance.

Scars can have an internal drag effect, coupled with gravity on the musculature and skin, which increases the sagging that tends to occur in some people. Myofascial restrictions tend to overstretch the elastic myofascial complex. The myofascial complex consists of collagen, elastin and musculature, and the stretching of the elastic component is what leads to the acceleration of the aging process, creating lines and wrinkles and decreasing tone.

Sincerely,

John

01/06/2026

More studies about the effectiveness of CranioSacral Therapy!

CranioSacral Therapy: Supporting Trauma Recovery Through Mind-Body Connection

📖 Learn more about the role of CST in trauma care:

Read here:https://www.iahe.com/storage/docs/articles/Combining-psychotherapy-with-craniosacral-therapy-for-severe-traumatized-patients-1.pdf or Upledger.com Searchable Article Database

This study highlights the integration of CranioSacral Therapy (CST) with psychotherapy in treating severe trauma and PTSD. This innovative approach reduces physical symptoms, allowing for deeper emotional healing and improved therapeutic outcomes. CST helps alleviate physical pain, enhance self-care, and increase emotional tolerance, paving the way for meaningful recovery.
This research also emphasizes the importance of collaboration with trained psychotherapists to ensure patient safety and maximize benefits.