07/30/2025
My comment
I absolutely feel like what I am able to facilitate is like magic and in several of my reviews that is how people discribe what they have experienced because truly the methods I use are so rare. I learned the basics in a three day seminar focusing on the head, neck and upper thorasic areas from Dawn Lewis back in 2014 when she was visiting here in Coeur d'Alene. She developed the SMRT method. And also another couple of course a few months after added to my repetuar - Advanced myofascial neuromuscular positional release methods and a Quantum Touch class.
SMRT involves a bit of trigger point, strain/counterstrain, Reki, and Cranial Sacral. What is most unique is how she teachs you to release the skeletal structure. Something like working with levers and pullies, finding where the muscles/fascia has become stuck, yet in a very gacefull artstic dance like way.
I like to call it "living art sculpture". And yes no matter who it is from young to old I'm able realign their structural instabilities. Pain issues disolve without force. Infact much of the work is very intricate and delicate because it is truly energy sending or talking to the fascia's propiceptors like a "fascia whisperer". My fingers and hands are like ballet dancers and finger painters and a sculpture. It's also like being the conductor of a symphony- tuning the discordent strings of each unique instrument that is part of a symbiotic symphony.
It is always a new experience. Like your guest says, it's always different with each person. And so it makes it really like an exciting journey that we go on together every time. So yes, that is the magic every time! And in reality that is science... consistently repeatable data.
🕊 Sbwell
Back in Touch Massage and Bodywork LMT since 1987
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
208-755-0527
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Join Joanne Avison and Kelley McLaughlin, a highly qualified bodywork and movement practitioner (certified in John F. Barnes' Myofascial Release Therapy). The conversation delves into the concept of 'magic' in healing and fascia, highlighting the importance of intention, curiosity, and the intersection between science and mystery. They discuss their shared experiences in the scientific field, including a significant moment at Ohio State University, where interdisciplinary collaboration led to ground-breaking discoveries between top scientists in the world.
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Kelley J. McLaughlin, LMT, RYT:
Kelley is a licensed massage therapist specialising in John F. Barnes' Myofascial Release Therapy. She completed the 200-hour MFR Yoga Teacher Training program at the Myofascial Yoga Institute in Canada, and is certified with the National Yoga Alliance. She also specialises in Myofascial Magic In Action under the teaching of Joanne Avison and Paul Thornley.
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