Fascial Connections Myofascial Release and Wellness Centre

Fascial Connections Myofascial Release and Wellness Centre A clinic dedicated to Women's Health, Oncology and Chronic Pain. We treat the total body using mult We are a wellness centre located in the West End of Ottawa.

We are specialized and dedicated to the John F. Barnes Myofascial Release Approach™ a form of structural bodywork that releases restrictions in the connective tissue, helping your body restore itself to health and well-being. It is a form of manual therapy for pain and whole body healing. It can help anyone suffering from headaches/migraines, neck or back pain, chronic or acute pain, TMJ, women's health issues, anxiety & stress and post surgical scars to name a few. Many individuals are looking for help where traditional rehab approaches have failed them. If you are the simplest or most complex of cases, we are here for you, treating the whole you, not just your symptoms. We help people return to their optimal, pain-free lifestyles. Understanding the importance of Total Health, we also offer Nutritional Counseling and Cancer Coaching. These modalities offered with the healing qualities of Myofascial Release truly encompass our total health approach in Mind, Body and Spirit. We look forward to working with you to facilitate your healing process and help you return to a pain free active lifestyle. Treatments are available by appointment. All Massage Therapists are Registered and Myofascial Release is covered under your massage therapy insurance plans. Please call 613-226-4637 or visit our website www.fascialconnections.ca for more info.

✨ This Week’s Openings at Fascial Connections Myofascial Release & Wellness Centre ✨A few spaces have opened up this wee...
11/18/2025

✨ This Week’s Openings at Fascial Connections Myofascial Release & Wellness Centre ✨
A few spaces have opened up this week for those needing support, relief, or a moment to simply breathe.
If you’ve been feeling tight, tense, or out of balance, this is a gentle nudge from your body — and an opportunity to reconnect.

Available appointments for ongoing treatment:
• Tuesday Nov 18th: 9:00 am ongoing treatment plan
Tara - RMT
• Tuesday Nov 18th: 2:00 pm Shea DOMP
• Wednesday Nov19th: 10:45 am New Patient or ongoing treatment plan Liza PT
• Wednesday Nov 19th: 11:00 am or 12:00 pm Shea DOMP
• Thursday Nov 20th: 9:15 am ongoing treatment plan Tara RMT

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What’s on your Sunday to-do list?✔️ Stretch without rushing.✔️ Sip your coffee slowly.✔️ Take a walk with no destination...
11/16/2025

What’s on your Sunday to-do list?
✔️ Stretch without rushing.
✔️ Sip your coffee slowly.
✔️ Take a walk with no destination.
✔️ Do absolutely nothing — and feel how good that is.
We spend so much of the week checking boxes, chasing time, and pushing through tension.
But your body doesn’t need another task — it needs permission to unwind.
When you slow down, your fascia softens.
Circulation improves, breath deepens, and the whole body begins to listen inward again.
So today, instead of striving, let yourself settle.
Notice the small rhythms that bring ease — a quiet moment, warm sunlight, or the gentle stretch of a deep sigh.
Your nervous system will thank you.
Your body will respond.
And the “to-do” becomes “to be.”

🌘 As the Light ShiftsUnderstanding Mood Changes Through the SeasonsWhen the clocks turn back and daylight shortens, many...
11/14/2025

🌘 As the Light Shifts
Understanding Mood Changes Through the Seasons
When the clocks turn back and daylight shortens, many of us feel the shift — not just in time, but in our bodies and moods.
Less sunlight means lower serotonin and vitamin D levels, and our circadian rhythms adjust more slowly than the clock. The fascia — deeply connected to our nervous system — feels this change too.
Cooler temperatures, earlier evenings, and reduced light can all influence our energy, sleep, and emotional tone. The body moves a little slower, tissues may feel tighter, and emotions surface differently.
This is your reminder to soften with the season:
🌿 Step into morning light when possible
💧 Hydrate and move gently each day
🕯 Create small rituals of rest and warmth
💆‍♀️ Listen to what your body is asking for — not what the clock demands
Stillness can be deeply healing when we meet it with awareness.

🌿 Value vs. Worth: You Are Not a TransactionSo many of us have been taught to measure our worth by what we do, how much ...
11/12/2025

🌿 Value vs. Worth: You Are Not a Transaction
So many of us have been taught to measure our worth by what we do, how much we produce, or how well we take care of everyone else.
We equate being busy with being valuable — and in that constant striving, we lose sight of something essential:
our inherent value.
Your worth can fluctuate in the eyes of the world — tied to performance, appearance, success, or even how “together” you seem.
But your value — your true, inner essence — is unchangeable.
It’s the quiet strength that exists underneath all the doing.
It’s your heartbeat, your breath, your presence.
Value is what you bring simply by being here.
It doesn’t rise or fall with your productivity, income, or energy level.
It’s woven into who you are — in your laughter, your compassion, your curiosity, your capacity to feel.
When we begin to separate value from worth, something in the body relaxes.
The shoulders drop.
The breath deepens.
The nervous system shifts out of “prove and perform” into “safe and seen.”
This is where healing begins — not from striving harder, but from remembering that you already are enough.
So today, take a moment to pause.
Feel the ground beneath you.
Place a hand over your heart and remind yourself:
“I am valuable, even when I’m resting.
Even when I am uncertain.
Even when I am not producing.”
Because your presence — not your performance — is what gives life meaning.
And that truth is felt not just in the mind, but in the fascia, in the cells, and in every subtle rhythm of your being.

🇨🇦 Remembrance DayToday, we pause.We honour the courage, sacrifice, and quiet strength of those who served — and those w...
11/11/2025

🇨🇦 Remembrance Day
Today, we pause.
We honour the courage, sacrifice, and quiet strength of those who served — and those who continue to serve.
We remember the lives forever changed by conflict, the families who carried that weight, and the communities shaped by resilience and hope.
Remembrance invites reflection.
It asks us to look not only at history, but inward — toward compassion, gratitude, and the ways we care for one another in the present.
May we move gently today.
May we honour peace in our words, our actions, and the stillness we hold in our bodies and hearts.
🌺 Lest we forget.

11/10/2025

We’re Home.After months of transition, resilience, and more than a few deep breaths, we’re so grateful to share that as ...
11/09/2025

We’re Home.
After months of transition, resilience, and more than a few deep breaths, we’re so grateful to share that as of November 10th, we are officially back in our home space at 2200 Prince of Wales Drive, Unit 400.
This return means more than just a change of address.
It’s a return to the quiet, grounded environment so many of you have come to associate with your healing. The soft light. The familiar rooms. The sense of settling that greets you the moment you arrive. All of it is ready for you again.
Thank you for the patience, kindness, and flexibility you’ve shown during our temporary relocation. You’ve reminded us, again and again, that healing isn’t just something that happens on the treatment table. It’s woven through connection, community, and the small ways we support one another.
We’re looking forward to welcoming you back into a space designed for calm, safety, and gentle release.
Your journey continues here, in the place that has held so many stories and so much care.
Fascial Connections Myofascial Release & Wellness Centre

Hormones don’t just regulate one thing.They narrate everything.These tiny chemical messengers shape the rhythm of your d...
11/08/2025

Hormones don’t just regulate one thing.
They narrate everything.
These tiny chemical messengers shape the rhythm of your days: energy, sleep, mood, digestion, temperature, stress, and even the way your fascia softens or stiffens in response to life.
When hormones shift, the whole body feels the plot twist.
You might notice it as tension in your jaw, deeper fatigue, new aches, anxious buzzing, changes in your cycle, brain fog, or that vague sense of being “not quite yourself.” That’s not weakness, and it’s not imagined. It’s your internal storytellers sending signals through every layer of your physiology.
Because fascia is one interconnected web, it feels those hormonal chapters too.
Stress hormones can tighten the system.
Sleep and recovery hormones help tissues unwind.
Inflammatory hormones influence glide, hydration, and comfort.
Your body is always communicating. Always telling the truth, even when the mind tries to push through.
Listening to those stories is part of caring for your whole self.

🌿 Freedom in Your BodyFreedom isn’t about pushing harder — it’s about feeling at home in your own tissues.When the fasci...
11/06/2025

🌿 Freedom in Your Body
Freedom isn’t about pushing harder — it’s about feeling at home in your own tissues.
When the fascia becomes tight or guarded from stress, injury, or long-held patterns, the body can start to feel smaller inside. Movement becomes effortful, breath feels shallow, and even rest doesn’t fully register.
But when the body senses safety —
when the tissues soften,
when the breath drops,
when holding patterns unwind —
space returns.
Freedom in your body feels like:
✨ movement that flows rather than fights
✨ breath that expands without effort
✨ a nervous system that no longer braces for impact
✨ tissues that glide, respond, and communicate clearly
✨ the quiet inner “yes” that says: You’re okay. You can let go now.
You don’t have to stretch further or force anything.
Your body doesn’t need more effort — it needs permission.
Gentle awareness, slow unwinding, and compassionate touch help the whole system reorganize in ways that feel natural and free.
Freedom starts inside the fascia — and radiates through your whole life.

🌱 Trauma-Informed Care: A Gentle Return to SafetyIn trauma-informed care, we don’t ask the body to be brave.We ask it to...
11/05/2025

🌱 Trauma-Informed Care: A Gentle Return to Safety
In trauma-informed care, we don’t ask the body to be brave.
We ask it to feel safe.
We don’t rush.
We don’t override.
We don’t assume what you need —
we listen.
Healing is not about “pushing through.”
It’s about offering the nervous system and soft tissues enough safety to unwind, soften, and trust again.
Trauma healing might look like:
🍃 Breath returning where it once held
🌾 Muscles releasing their guard
💧 Emotion surfacing in quiet waves
✨ Feeling permission to take up space
Your body has carried so much, with so much wisdom.
Trauma-informed care honours that strength —
and supports the gentle, steady return
to softness, connection, and inner safety.
You do not have to rush your healing.






Your body already knows the way.

11/04/2025

Good morning we have a few spots still available this week.

Today:

Lori has spots for either an initial intake at 1:15 or spots for ongoing clients at 1:15 or 2:30.

Shea has room for a 10:15 or 1:15 for ongoing clients

Thursday:

Christine has room for an initial intake at 12:30 or for ongoing clients at 10:30.

Lori has room for ongoing clients at 9:15.

Shea has room for ongoing clients at 11:15.

Have a great rest of your week folks and don't forget to take advantage of these spots.

🌿 Intuitive Healing: The Wisdom WithinWe often think healing comes from doing more — more stretching, more effort, more ...
11/03/2025

🌿 Intuitive Healing: The Wisdom Within
We often think healing comes from doing more — more stretching, more effort, more trying to “fix” what hurts.
But the body doesn’t always need force.
Sometimes, it needs listening.
Intuitive healing invites us to soften, to slow down, and to trust the quiet signals beneath the noise. The body is constantly communicating — through tension patterns, breath changes, posture shifts, and subtle sensations. These aren’t random; they are messages.
📌 Messages of protection
📌 Messages of past load
📌 Messages of resilience and readiness
When we pause and meet the body with presence rather than pressure, something shifts.
Tissues soften.
Breath deepens.
Nervous system settles.
The fascial web begins to reorganize, not because we force it to — but because safety returns and space is created for change.
Healing isn’t about controlling the body.
It’s about reconnecting with it.
✨ Trust your body.
✨ Honour its pace.
✨ Something intelligent is always unfolding beneath the surface.
You don’t have to push to heal — you just have to listen.

Address

400-2200 Prince Of Wales Drive (Lower Unit)
Ottawa, ON
K2E6Z9

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5:30pm
Friday 7:30am - 2pm

Telephone

+16132264637

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We are a wellness centre located in the West End of Ottawa. We are specialized and dedicated to the John F. Barnes Myofascial Release Approach™ a form of structural bodywork that releases restrictions in the connective tissue, helping your body restore itself to health and well-being. It is a form of manual therapy for pain and whole body healing. It can help anyone suffering from headaches/migraines, neck or back pain, chronic or acute pain, TMJ, women's health issues, anxiety & stress and post surgical scars to name a few. Many individuals are looking for help where traditional rehab approaches have failed them. If you are the simplest or most complex of cases, our Physiotherapist and Massage Therapists are here for you, treating the whole you, not just your symptoms. We help people return to their optimal, pain-free lifestyles. Understanding the importance of Total Health, we also offer Osteopathy and Integral Coaching. These modalities offered with the healing qualities of Myofascial Release truly encompass our total health approach in Mind, Body and Spirit. We look forward to working with you to facilitate your healing process and help you return to a pain free active lifestyle. Treatments are available by appointment. All Therapists are Registered and Myofascial Release is covered under your insurance plans for Physiotherapy and Massage Therapy and Manual Osteopathy Please call 613-226-4637 or visit our website www.fascialconnections.ca for more info.