Unwind FST

Some newer therapies are taking the athletic community by storm. Find out how Fascia Stretch Therapy is doing just that!

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I love stretching clients! Fascia Stretch Therapy® is such a gentle modality. As my clients say, “There’s just nothing like it!”

Our latest blog post touches on some of the growing data about fascia and how the latest research is leading us to understand that stretching and manual therapy (like Fascia Stretch Therapy) can lead us in directions of healing that ar far beyond simple wellbeing.

Making Sense of Chronic Pain Trauma and Healing SCIENTIFIC revelations come from the unlikeliest of places, like a mouse, in a lab, doing a “downward dog” stretch.

What Is Fascia? Experts Explain the Tissue That’s Crucial to Preventing Pain

~ MERYL DAVIDS LANDAU

PUBLISHED: JAN 30, 2023

Experiencing Muscle Pain? It Could Actually Be Your Fascia Plus, three ways to treat fascia for pain relief.

I am so grateful for each and every one of you who I’ve had the opportunity to meet, to work with, and to evolve with this year. Your curiosity, your trust in me and yourselves and your support throughout this year and it’s many obstacles has meant more to me than you can know.

May 2022 be just as rewarding through the many inevitable challenges and may we continue together.

Happy New Year!

I am so honoured that clients like Debbie consistently put their trust in my hands. Here is her full review:

💬“Hana is amazing and very good at what she does!

💬“I first went to Hana in 2019 to hopefully help me with sciatica pain - I was in constant horrible pain. After the assessment, she set up a plan for my needs and we started working together - I was surprised at first when we’d stop exercising if I felt any pain. This was amazing because I would have quit altogether if the pain got worse. Eventually, with Hana's guidance and direction, I was able to do all exercises without pain. Hana went above and beyond and provided me with everything I needed to ensure the sciatica pain never came back.

💬“It's been almost 3 years and I am still pain free!!

💬“Recently, I went back to Hana for FST sessions and OMG it's amazing! There is no greater feeling than getting a good stretch and letting all the tension in my body just melt away.

💬“Hana listens to her clients and really cares about them - she provides you with everything you need such as tips & tricks to continue to live a pain free life.

💬“Whether you are looking for personal training or a good stretch, Hana is the best!”

My heart is full! It is clients, like Debbie, who take ownership of their own health, whether it be solely with me, with my help and then on their own, that help make this work so rewarding.

What aches and pains are you looking to overcome? Comment below 👇

Happy Thanksgiving

May your day be a joyous one celebrating with family and friends.

🧡 Today, September 30, is Canada’s first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.

🪶It is a day to honour the Indigenous children who were forcibly taken away from their families through the Residential School system. It is a day to raise awareness about the struggles that Indigenous communities have faced and the violence and inter generational impacts Indigenous communities still face.

🕊It is also a day to for settled Canadians to reflect on Canada’s past with open hearts, to learn, to read, to listen and to hear in order to create understanding and empathy. Today is the beginning of learning how to walk alongside our indigenous communities in harmony and solidarity.

🍃Here are a few accounts to follow to begin your journey:

❓Do you have any accounts we should follow? Drop them below 👇

One simple word change.

🤔Did it affect meaning? Did it affect mindset?

🥾My husband had a drill sergeant & physical training coach who used to yell at the troop, when he’d push them to their physical limits, “Remember, you’re doing this to yourselves!” I picked up the expression jokingly during one of my bootcamp classes a few years ago.

🚶‍♀️It’s true they were; they were there by by their own doing. They could walk away any time. It was their choice to be there.

💡I quickly realized that fitness, mobility, movement, manual therapy (and a whole host of other things) wasn’t something we needed to do to ourselves. That was punishment. It was something we needed to do FOR ourselves.

💖And so, I changed the expression. Don’t we all want to do something for ourselves? Isn’t it actually an act of self kindness to push yourself physically? Mentally? Emotionally? Spiritually, even?

What challenging things do you want to do FOR yourself? Comment below 👇

Did you know you can actually bring more oxygen to your body by breathing less?

🤔Wait, how is that possible? Isn’t more oxygen better?

Not exactly. Taking in oxygen isn’t just about getting it into the lungs. It then has to be carried by the blood, delivered to our vital organs + muscles, exchanged for waste (Co2 + H2O), and finally breathed out. The exchange is important!

🔁So how do they trade places in the blood?

Carbon dioxide, a waste byproduct of various muscle + organ functions, acts as a trigger to release oxygen from blood. When Co2 ↗️ rises in the blood, O2 ↘️ is released into the tissues. If Co2 is low, blood holds on👩‍🍼to O2, and less is released.

👄Let’s look at mouth breathing and why it hinders blood gas exchange.

When we mouth breathe we are actually "over breathing”. By over breathing, we saturate our blood with oxygen and reduce the amount of Co2 it can hold - which results in less O2 being released to tissues and organs.

👃By nasal breathing, our breath slows; we breathe less. This causes the blood to retain higher carbon dioxide. This retention triggers the desired blood gas exchange, which results in greater oxygenation of tissues + organs.

Better breathing is less breathing. Less breathing triggers blood gas exchange. Breathe less for more oxygen!

What did you find the most surprising? Comment below 👇

🕸Experience is in your Fascia. Since our fascia (connective tissues) is highly sensory, it actually actually creates a web of movement memories!

✨Every time we repeatedly move in the same way we create a memory of that movement. Repeat this and we have a pattern created by experience.

🤾‍♀️This is fantastic for grooving patterns like learning to walk, throwing, running, or playing any sport. We want this kind of adaptation.

🧑‍🦯However, we can also create maladaptive patterns in our fascia. Patterns that don’t help us in our lives can be text neck, limping, shuffling our feet, dowagers hump and a whole host of postural concerns. These “experiences” that contribute, can be repeatedly carrying a bag over your shoulder, sitting all day or avoiding pain.

💆With regular preventative and rehabilitative care like private movement coaching and fascia stretch therapy, you can remain in peak condition for whatever life throws at you.

👉What experiences is your fascia holding onto?

📇Book your free consult today to explore how we can help. DM or link in bio.

Why should you care about posture?

✨The obvious reason is that you look better. For one of our most primal of instincts, healthy posture signifies strength, beauty and youth; it helps us attract a suitable mate! But there’s more to posture than just looks…

✨We’ve all seen the way some of our elderly walk: hunched over, stepping cautiously, often with a cane or walker. So how does this begin?

✨Let’s start with a subtle head forward position, slightly rounded shoulders, a gentle bend in the hips (left pic).

✨Left unattended, postural changes affect balance and our ability to move effectively. (Your head weighs about 11 lb. No wonder your whole body compensates!) Further, posture can affect our ability to breathe well, correctly digest our food and maintain bladder and bowel function.

And this ☝️ is why you should care about your posture! At its optimal, your posture helps your body function at its best, so as to make movement effortless and pain free!

💫With stretch therapy, some simple exercises and correct breathing you can improve your posture, your balance, and your vitality!

Don’t ignore your posture; book your assessment today! Link in bio 👆

WORDS MATTER!

I’ve often heard clients make catastrophic statements like, “I’ll have this issue for the rest of my life.” or “I was told this will heal but will probably come back.”

It pains me to hear clients relay injury stories of being stuck with a narrative of permanence, instead of hope for healing. Often this comes from a practitioner who has not chosen their words carefully or from the patient interpreting medical terminology as something worse than it is.

Let me state this here and now: THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE FOR HEALING!

The body is DESIGNED to heal itself, it is designed to recover. We are resilient beings with mechanisms for health that are FAR superior to anything that we can design. The human brain for example, processes 11 million bits of information from the body PER SECOND! Why are we so confident to think we know better?

To anyone with a diagnosis: please question whether this is really “forever” or “just for now”. Ask what your medical findings ACTUALLY MEAN for your symptoms. Remember: you are more than just a diagnosis.

If you’re not sure how to help your body recover, seek the advice of a practitioner skilled in aiding recovery and movement. Link in bio 👆

YOU ARE NOT BROKEN

Wishing you and your family a wonderful Canada Day!

Take this time to enjoy the day, and to breathe in the fresh air, to move your body a little or a lot and to let your body unwind from all of this year's stress. Life is good!

Ed came in with a frozen shoulder.

His first session didn’t yield much movement. We simply focussed on releasing tension in other parts of the body and created gentle movements that would coax his whole body to relax and bring his tension levels down from high alert.

In the following days he was scheduled for some imaging to ensure there were no tears or anything insidious that would prevent further stretching. His next session followed after we had the “all clear” to proceed.

Each time Ed came in we’d gently work on and around the shoulder, as well as the rest of the body, (including legs and hips!). In all, Ed took advantage of 6 more Fascia Stretch Therapy (FST™) sessions, gradually easing restrictions and regaining range of motion.

Just in time! Ed is excited to play golf again.

What would you do with better range of motion and less tightness in your body?

DM us for your introductory stretch today! Link in bio👆

Have you ever said this? “I can’t stretch because I don’t have time”. “I really need to just finish this task and then I’ll go for that walk.” And then it get's late and you don't go, right?

⁉️What are you actually saying here?

What if you thought of movement as something you DESERVE to do for yourself instead of something you SHOULD do?

🤯When we make this tiny but massive mind shift we realize that we’ve actually been punishing ourselves (the excuse being, not completing the other task) by withholding something that our body craves, something that can be fun! What are we? A child that’s being penalized for not finishing their homework?

🤸🏻💃🕺🏽🏃Go do that thing that wakes your body up, gives you more energy and joy! 🤸 Then see how quick and effortless that other task becomes.

If you struggle to stay motivated, with your exercise goals. DM me or reach out using the link in bio. I’m here to help!

Do you have a good and bad knee? Hip? Shoulder? Elbow? Remember when you simply called them left and right?

How many things have you tried to get relief? ⚡️Pain killers? ❄️Ice? ☄️Heat? 🧑‍🦯Braces? 💫Physio? 💆Massage? How long did you get relief for?

How many activities do you avoid because of your “bad” side?
What if you could lift your kids, grandkids, garden play, hike without worrying you’ll make it worse?

Let me help you get unstuck and unhindered by pain so you can get back to being.. well … you! -Not just for you but for those you love the most.

DM me today to see what left and right feels like, again!

What is fascia and why should you care?

✨Neglected fascia can send your body into a tailspin of restrictions, tightness, imbalance, poor posture, limited movement and chronic pain.

✨Fascia has been one of the most overlooked structures in the human body. Simply put, it forms a connective network throughout your body.

✨Even more importantly it is the biggest sensory organ in the body. This means it relays pain and other sensory signals between body and brain.

✨And this ☝️ is why you should care for your fascia! At its optimal, your fascia will glide, slide and move so as to make movement pain free and effortless.

If you’d like to experience fascia stretch therapy for yourself, drop a comment below or click the link in bio.

We are published!

Read our latest article in the Navan Nugget on page 9 of the June issue.

Link here: https://buff.ly/2Jt3iwi


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You will rise or fall to the occasion.

Surround yourself with those who lift you up, who inspire you to improve, who you want to emulate. Seek out those with a growth mindset; you will naturally emulate them and push yourself to excel. When you want to be better at something, join others who want to be better or are already there.

The alternative? Surround yourself with sameness, with safety, with stagnation.

Instead, step through your fear and be brave enough to grow.

Who are you surrounding yourself with? Where do you want to be tomorrow?

If you need help getting started with your health and mobility journey. DM me; I’m here to help ⬆️

Don't know where to start? Pick one and be consistent.

Don't know how to choose the one best suited for you?
DM me; I'm happy to help!