Carissa Shima Healing Bodywork

Carissa Shima Healing Bodywork Body Architect l Fascial Specialist
Structural Transformation That Elevates
Heal. Move. Thrive.

Results You Can Feel — Transformation That Lasts.
👉 Book a Session: https://carissa-shima-healing-bodywork.kit.com/aca26917d5
NVMT 11040 I draw on my background in all healing and self growth modalities to provide a custom approach to your biggest challenges in life.

12/16/2025

When your fascia moves, you move.
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Most people think their pain or stiffness is coming from one spot —
but fascia doesn’t work in isolation.
It’s one continuous layer.
So when one area gets tight — from old injuries, years of the same movements, or habits you don’t even notice anymore — it pulls on everything else.
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That’s why:
• your shoulder affects your neck
• your hip affects your low back
• one side always feels tighter
• the same pain keeps coming back
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It’s not random.
It’s a pattern your body learned — and kept.
When we release the fascia, the pattern changes.
And when the pattern changes… movement finally feels easier.
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👉 Book a Customized Bodywork Session
Link in bio.

If the same pain keeps returning — in your neck, back, hip, shoulder, knee —there’s a reason for it.Your fascia is holdi...
12/15/2025

If the same pain keeps returning — in your neck, back, hip, shoulder, knee —
there’s a reason for it.

Your fascia is holding a pattern your body never had the chance to release.

Fascia remembers:
old injuries
post-surgical changes
work posture
stress
overuse
falls
sports
the way you’ve moved for years

When something in your fascia gets tight or restricted, your body starts compensating around it.
And that compensation becomes the new pattern — the one that makes your pain return in the exact same spot over and over again.

You feel it as:
• stiffness that never quite goes away
• pain that keeps coming back
• tension you can’t stretch out
• a body that feels “off” on one side
• movement that doesn’t feel natural anymore

It’s not because you’re broken.
It’s not because you’re aging.
It’s because the pattern hasn’t been released.

When we change the pattern in your fascia, everything shifts:
✨ pain eases
✨ tension melts
✨ mobility opens
✨ your body stops fighting itself
✨ movement finally feels effortless again

If you’re tired of managing the same pain over and over…

👉 Book a Customized Bodywork Session — the first step to releasing the pattern and restoring your body’s natural movement.
https://carissa-shima-healing-bodywork.kit.com/aca26917d5

12/13/2025

Fascia gets tight because your body has been doing the best it can to keep you moving.
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Sometimes it’s tight because of what you’re doing now —
long hours sitting, stress, repetitive movement, workouts, or daily habits.
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Sometimes it’s tight because of what happened years ago —
an old injury, a surgery, a fall, or a period of overuse your body never fully recovered from.
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Your fascia remembers it all.
And when fascia tightens, your whole system has to compensate.
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That’s when symptoms start showing up:
• pain that keeps returning
• stiffness that doesn’t change, no matter what you do
• tension that spreads into your neck, back, hips, or shoulders
• feeling “off” on one side
• a body that just doesn’t feel comfortable anymore
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Most people think the problem is their muscles.
But muscles can’t relax or get stronger if the fascia around them is locked down.
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Here’s the truth:
When fascia moves, pain eases.
When fascia moves, stiffness melts.
When fascia moves, tension finally lets go.
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This is why so many people feel instant relief — not because something was “wrong,” but because their fascia finally had the chance to release.
If you’re tired of waking up stiff, carrying tension, or living with pain that keeps coming back…
👉 Book a Customized Bodywork Session — the first step to getting your fascia (and your body) moving the way it’s meant to.
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12/12/2025

Living tight isn’t normal.
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Feeling stiff all the time isn’t “just how it is.”
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Your body is designed to move with ease — not fight its way through every day.
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When your fascia is restricted, everything feels heavy, slow, and harder than it should.
But when your body is balanced and your fascia can glide?
Movement becomes effortless.
You feel lighter.
Everything feels easier.
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If you’re ready to move the way your body is supposed to…
👉 Book a Customized Bodywork Session.
Link in bio.

12/12/2025

I hear this constantly in my practice:
“I just need to stretch more.”
“If I stretched every day, I wouldn’t be so tight.”
“I know my pain would go away if I were more flexible.”
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But here’s the problem with that belief:
If stretching was the answer, it would’ve already worked.
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Most people are not tight because they don’t stretch enough.
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They’re tight because their fascia — the connective tissue that wraps the entire body — is restricted, dehydrated, or stuck in an old compensation pattern.
You can’t stretch your way out of a fascial restriction.
You can temporarily feel better…
but if you don’t release the whole pattern it will pull right back out of alignment.
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That’s why you feel:
• tight all the time
• stiff every morning
• pain that returns in the same spot
• tension you can’t stretch away
• or like one side of your body never loosens
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Stretching isn’t bad —
it’s just not enough when the deeper layer is stuck.
Fascial bodywork is the answer.
It releases the restrictions that stretching can’t reach.
It resets the patterns your body built to survive old injuries and stress.
And it gives you mobility, ease, and comfort that actually lasts.
If you’re tired of stretching and still feeling tight…
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👉 Book a Customized Bodywork Session — the first step to getting your body moving the way it’s meant to. Linktree in Bio to Learn More!

If your body feels “off,” there’s always a reason —and it’s almost never the reason people assume.Most of the time, it’s...
12/11/2025

If your body feels “off,” there’s always a reason —
and it’s almost never the reason people assume.

Most of the time, it’s because something in your fascia is off…
and your body has been quietly working around it for years.

Your fascia remembers:
old injuries
scar tissue
stress
sitting
overuse
surgery
imbalances
habitual movement patterns

It adapts to protect you —
but those adaptations eventually become the very tension, stiffness, and discomfort you’re feeling today.

That’s why you can be active, strong, and doing everything “right”
…yet your body still doesn’t move the way it used to.

That’s why you feel:
• tight all the time
• uneven on one side
• restricted in rotation
• limited in your stride
• pain in the same spot again and again
• like something is just… off

Not because you’re aging.
Not because you’re broken.
Because your fascia has been holding onto patterns your body could never correct on its own.

When we release those restrictions and restore balance in the fascial system, your whole structure reorganizes:
✨ mobility increases
✨ pain eases
✨ posture lifts
✨ compensations dissolve
✨ movement feels natural again
✨ and your body finally feels like you again

If you’re tired of living around your limitations…
If you know something isn’t right but you can’t explain it…
If you’ve tried everything and nothing lasts…

👉 Book a Customized Bodywork Session — the first step to resetting your fascia and restoring real movement.
Linktree in Bio to book your session today!

Old injuries leave a mark on the body — even when the pain goes quiet.And surgeries, while life-changing, don’t always r...
12/10/2025

Old injuries leave a mark on the body — even when the pain goes quiet.
And surgeries, while life-changing, don’t always reset the patterns your body built to protect itself.

This client came to me with:
• a left hip replacement
• a past injury his body never fully recovered from
• constant hip pain
• low-back tension that kept returning
• and a structure that had been compensating for years

His body wasn’t the problem.
His fascia was still holding onto old patterns, forcing the rest of his system to work around the restriction.

That’s why his hip felt tight.
Why his low back was always overworking.
Why everything felt “off,” even after surgery.

Through the Ten Series, we released the fascial tension, restored balance across his whole body, and helped his structure function as one connected system again.

The result?
Less pain.
More ease.
Better movement.
And a body that finally feels like it belongs to him again.

If you’ve had an injury, a surgery, or years of compensation patterns that never truly resolved — there is a way forward.

👉 Book a Customized Bodywork Session — the first step to beginning the Ten Series.
Linktree to Book a Session!

12/10/2025

Let’s talk about something that affects every part of how you move, stand, sit, train, recover — even how you age:
Your fascia.
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Fascia is the continuous, intelligent network of connective tissue that wraps your entire body.
It holds everything in place.
It gives your body shape.
It determines how easily (or not-so-easily) you move through space.
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And here’s the part most people never realize:
Your fascia is constantly responding to gravity.
Every minute of every day.
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When your fascia is healthy, it supports you effortlessly.
You stand taller.
You move more fluidly.
Your joints feel lighter.
Your body works with gravity instead of fighting it.
When fascia gets tight or restricted, your whole structure shifts.
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And then the problems begin:
• Tightness in one area pulls on another
• Old injuries create new compensations
• Your posture collapses into gravity
• Your mobility slowly disappears
• Certain muscles overwork
• Other muscles shut down
• Pain starts showing up in places that “don’t make sense”
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It’s not an isolated issue.
It’s a chain reaction happening through your entire system.
Your fascia connects it all.
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When we release restrictions and restore balance to the fascial system, everything changes:
✨ your posture lifts
✨ your mobility increases
✨ your pain eases
✨ your movement feels natural again
✨ gravity becomes a partner — not a weight you fight
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This is the work I do every day.
This is what transforms bodies when nothing else has made a lasting difference.
If your body feels tight everywhere and you can’t explain why…
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👉 Book a Customized Bodywork Session — and let’s look at what your fascia is actually doing. See Linktree to Book your Session Today!

Your performance isn’t just in your muscles.It isn’t just in your training.It isn’t even in your strength.Your performan...
12/09/2025

Your performance isn’t just in your muscles.
It isn’t just in your training.
It isn’t even in your strength.

Your performance lives in your fascia.

Fascia controls how well you rotate, how efficiently you transfer power, how quickly you recover, and how smoothly your joints move.
When it’s open, hydrated, and moving… your performance feels effortless.

But when fascia gets tight or restricted — from old injuries, overuse, travel, long workdays, stress, or aging — your performance drops long before you realize why:

• Your rotation becomes limited
• Your swing loses power
• Your back or hip starts speaking up
• Your shoulder gets tight
• Recovery slows down
• You feel “off,” even when nothing is technically wrong

And no amount of stretching, massaging, or training harder fixes the root problem — because the restriction is in the fascia, not the muscle.

This is where the 10-Series changes everything.

It’s a full-body reset designed to:
✔ release deep restrictions
✔ restore alignment
✔ improve rotational mobility
✔ enhance power transfer
✔ reduce compensations
✔ speed recovery
✔ optimize performance at every level

Clients consistently tell me:
“My swing is finally back.”
“I’m more explosive.”
“My rotation actually feels free again.”
“I recover faster.”
“My body feels younger.”

If you’re an active, high-performing athlete — golf, tennis, pickleball, or anything else — and you feel like your body isn’t matching your goals…

👉 Book a Customized Bodywork Session — the first step to beginning the 10-Series.
Linktree in Bio.

Your body has another level.
Let’s unlock it.

12/09/2025

Most people try to “fix” tight fascia by stretching harder, pushing deeper, or forcing the tissue to change.
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But here’s the truth:
Fascia doesn’t release when you overpower it — it releases when you work with it.
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Fascia is one continuous, intelligent layer that wraps your entire body.
It responds to stress, pressure, injury, posture, movement… and it responds BEST to intentional, skillful input — not aggressive stretching or painful pressure.
When fascia is tight, it’s usually dehydrated, compressed, or stuck in a protective pattern.
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That’s why stretching alone doesn’t fix it.
And why forcing it often makes things worse.
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To release fascia, you need:
✨ slow, intentional pressure
✨ precise angles
✨ the right depth
✨ a “hurt so good” sensation
✨ time for the tissue to melt and elongate
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That’s how fascia returns to its natural state:
healthy, hydrated, open, and free.
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When this happens, everything changes:
Your mobility improves.
Your posture lifts.
Your pain eases.
You feel lighter, looser, and more connected in your body.
If you’re tired of being tight no matter how much you stretch…
If you want real, lasting movement instead of temporary relief…
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👉 Book a Customized Bodywork Session — your first step to releasing the patterns holding you back.
Link in Bio!

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