MFR of Central California

12/12/2025

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Confessions of a Myofascial Trigger Point

I was never meant to be permanent. I began as a moment, a response, a slight tightening when holding felt safer than releasing. At first, it was subtle, just a brief pause in the tissue's rhythm. But the body asked me to stay. So I did. I shortened my fibers, thickened my layers, and held the chemistry still. I became a place where the river slowed and gathered its weight.

The body learned to move around me. Fascia stiffened along familiar lines, rerouting tension and sensation elsewhere. Pain drifted outward, tracing old pathways through the shoulder, jaw, back, or breath. I wasn’t creating chaos. I was containing it. I held pressure because something inside wasn’t ready to let go.

Then the hands came, not hurried, not demanding. They rested with warmth and attention, and I felt the first change before I understood it. Compression softened the alarm. The nervous system quieted its vigilance. Hyaluronic layers warmed and began to slide. A gentle current brushed past me as the fascial wave moved through the body, reminding the tissue of motion I thought had been lost.

When the wave reached me, it paused. I was seen. The hands didn’t press me deeper into holding. Instead, they slipped beneath me, lifting me gently toward the bone. The pressure shifted in different directions, changing the shape of everything I had been holding together. My fibers lengthened. Blood returned. Chemistry softened. I felt warmth where there had been tightness and a trembling where there had been certainty.

I tried to stay. Old patterns don’t dissolve easily. But time was offered instead of force. Breath moved. Electrical chatter quieted. The nervous system loosened its grip on the story I had been carrying. Slowly, and with only a little drama on my part, I melted. The dam cracked, and the water I had been holding found its way forward again.

As I released, the river surged outward, carrying the change through the fascial lines that connect the whole body. Where I once stood, there was space, warmth, and movement.

I was never the enemy; I was the pause that kept the body safe until it was ready. And when it was finally met with patience, presence, and understanding of a healer like you, I let go. The river remembered itself, and so did I.

12/10/2025

12/09/2025

John Barnes explains:

The John F. Barnes Myofascial Release Approach® teaches that our fascial system is alive, responsive, and electrically intelligent. ✨💫When we apply gentle, ...

12/07/2025

Everyone is starting to realize how important fascia is when it comes to training the body, but most people still underestimate how deeply it influences movement.

Hydrated fascia behaves very differently, down to the cellular level. Not only does it participate in bioelectric signaling, it also plays a major role in how much range of motion your body can access during exercise. When this tissue is loaded correctly, it becomes elastic and responsive. Your muscles coordinate better, your posture improves, and energy becomes more stable because your body isn’t fighting itself to move.

When this tissue loses its elasticity and structural organization, your body begins moving in ways that increase tension, stiffness, and joint stress in the wrong areas. This is when people start experiencing the movement degradation that eventually leads to pain. Hydration in the body isn’t just about drinking more water. It depends on restoring the mechanical conditions that allow fluid to move through your tissue with minimal friction.

The visual on the left is exactly what we help you overcome through our training. This is what you see in the transformations we help people achieve, where their bodies begin to look more viscoelastic and full.

If you want to improve your movement, you not only need to strengthen the muscles that are weak, you also need to build the mechanics that distribute tension efficiently throughout your fascial system. The quality of your movement determines the quality of your tissue.

12/06/2025

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12/03/2025

Holiday shopping is so hard sometimes. We all have enough stuff, but not enough softness.

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11/30/2025

A special Thanksgiving visit with my son filled my heart. He knew just where to take us--a quiet redwood grove in his neighborhood where the world slows down and your whole system can finally exhale.

I’m so proud of who he has become. Standing among those ancient trees with him reminded me of his strength, his kindness, and the grounding presence he brings into the world.

Moments like these renew me --and help me hold even more space for my clients on their healing journeys. 💜🧡

11/21/2025

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11/20/2025

A client told me this week that I’m like Charlotte from Charlotte’s Web -- weaving calm, clarity, and connection through the fascial web.

It touched me deeply.

Fascia can feel like a tangle of forgotten stories -- threads pulled too tight, strands that have lost their direction, places where life’s strain has gathered and knotted itself in silence.

When someone comes in feeling tangled or tight, it’s an honor to help their body remember its own pattern… its own wisdom… its own way back to ease.

Every session feels like watching the web reorganize itself -- softening, opening, realigning -- until the whole system breathes and flows a little easier.

Grateful for clients who feel the magic in this work and trust me to walk with them as they feel what is in their web 💜🙏

11/19/2025

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