CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

Beyond Feet:
Whole Body Myofascial Release for Fragile Times

We’ve come together again after a long pandemic that induced isolation and for many of us a fear of our own fragility because of the polarized framing of either strong/healthy or fragile/sick/dead.  If we consider the opposite of fragile to be resilience, we can begin to incorporate the idea that life—the life of our cells, the life of our bodies, the life of our relationships--ebb and flow.  We can be tired and bounce back with sleep.  We can be dehydrated and bounce back with water.  We can be alone and afraid and bounce back with connection.  In this workshop we will look at and work with our resiliency through connection with our bodies and each other, via the fascia.

Fascia is the connective tissue that is found below the skin in our bodies.  These tissues attach to, connect, and stabilize the muscles and organs of the body.  Fascia also carries communication from parts of the body to each other and the brain, playing a major role in interoception (the perception of the inside of one’s body).  Socially speaking attachment and connection provide us stabilization during stressful or unsafe times like pandemics.  Connection to self and others builds resiliency.

Christine and Ann will guide you in an experience of opening your interoception and connecting with others so that you can begin to feel a sense of where your resiliency lies.   You will learn both hands on and self mysofascial release (MFR) designed to be used in conjunction with Bioenergetic techniques.  These techniques are designed to help when a person’s ability to connect with themselves and others is blocked.  We will take you beyond standing with balls under your feet for grounding into more in depth ways of using the balls to open, feel yourself, and be in connection with others.   We will bring ourselves back to the safety of connection.     

Learning Objectives

• Participants will identify 3 “triangles” of opening with myofascial release

• Participants will name and perform 3 hands-on myofascial techniques

• Participants will identify how to use 3 myofascial techniques to increase efficacy of Bioenergetic techniques