Lori Hanna, RMT, Myofascial Release: MFR Practitioner

12/18/2025

The holidays can be joyful and uncomfortable. Making the decision to create new traditions during the festive holiday hustle and bustle isn’t always easy — change can feel strange, even stressful. However, sometimes the quiet moments, the slower pace, and the space to breathe are where the real joy begins. 🎄✨😮‍💨❄️

12/16/2025

Technical issues today; no fun but rolling with it….🎶🎼🎵🎤🎶🎼🎵🎤

Steve Winwood · Roll With It · Song · 1988

12/15/2025

❄️❄️❄️I have enjoyed witnessing the snowflakes lately. I love to look at them close up. It got me thinking how nature repeats itself — even in you. ❄️❄️❄️

A snowflake grows by branching the same pattern again and again. That’s fractal geometry — simple rules creating a strong, efficient structure.

Your body follows the same logic.

Fascia is a living, geometric, 3D continuous web integrating and interpenetrating all tissues of the body in fractal architecture. It branches, layers, repeats and adapts just like nature’s designs, helping movement and tension flow through the whole body.

Different materials.
Same fractal, geometric pattern.
Nature doesn’t change the formula — it repeats it. You can see it by observing and looking around you when you are in the natural world.

12/15/2025

11/30/2025

Pressing Pause…

Sometimes being a solopreneur means rolling with the unexpected. This week, life threw me one of those curveballs, and I’ve made the tough decision to close the business for just one week. Please know that I will be answering emails on a semi regular basis. I will reopen on Monday December 8th.

It’s never easy to hit pause—especially when you wear all the hats. But taking this short break is necessary so I can come back grounded, focused, and ready to serve at my best.

Thank you for your patience, understanding, and continued support. It truly means the world. 💛
See you soon—stronger, clearer, and ready to keep building.

11/17/2025

11/12/2025

❄️✨ Nature’s Geometry ✨❄️

Have you ever noticed how a snow-covered tree seems to branch out in endlessly smaller versions of itself? 🌳 Each limb mirrors the trunk’s pattern — that’s a fractal, a repeating design found throughout nature.

From trees and rivers to our very own bodies, fractals reveal the structure and beauty of self-similarity. The fascia — the connective tissue web that supports and connects everything in us — follows these same fractal patterns. It branches, weaves, and repeats at every scale, creating strength and harmony through repetition.

So when you see a tree holding its snowy leaves, remember: nature’s design language runs deep — from forest to fascia. 🌿🕸️❄️🍃🍁🪾🌲

11/11/2025

11/09/2025

Having come across this leaf I am reminded that:

💧Hydration Isn’t Just About Drinking Water💧

Look at this leaf — dry, brittle, with beads of water just sitting on the surface.….the water is there, but it can’t soak in.

Our fascia — the connective tissue that wraps and weaves through every part of us — can behave the same way. When it becomes restricted or dehydrated, fluid and nutrients can’t move as freely through the layers. Even if we’re drinking plenty of water, our tissues might still feel tight, stiff, or “dry” from the inside out.

Through Myofascial Release, addressing fascial restrictions helps restore the tissue’s ability to absorb and glide — allowing real hydration to reach the cells where it’s needed most.

💧It’s not just about how much water we take in, but how freely it can flow through us…

11/05/2025

If your body feels frozen, tight, or “stuck,” it might be asking for presence, not pressure.
Like a leaf touched by frost, there may be places in your body that feel frozen. Sometimes our tissues, fascia, even emotions hold still - protecting, bracing, waiting for safety and warmth to return.
Through the gentle, sustained touch of Myofascial Release, we invite those places to soften again…..by listening, waiting and allowing the body’s natural flow to return. This only happens when the body is ready, never by force.
In that quiet space, thawing begins - and movement, breath and life start to ripple back through.
If you’re curious about how John Barnes Myofascial Release® can help your body find freedom again, you are most welcome to reach out to us: MyFreedomMFR@gmail.com
(FreedomMFR Smiths Falls)