Simply Yoga with Jessica

11/27/2025

Thank you all for allowing me to lead you in yoga practice.

Have a blessed Thanksgiving 🦃

11/25/2025

The power of yoga isn’t in flawless shapes—it’s in presence, effort, and intention. 🌿
How do you remind yourself it’s working, even when it doesn’t look “perfect”?

11/25/2025

The Fascia Speaks

As bodyworkers, we touch a system far more intelligent and responsive than most people realize. It is a living memory field, a sensory fabric that holds the echoes of every emotional contraction, every bracing pattern, and every unspoken moment the nervous system didn’t know how to resolve.

We explore these imprints every day. We feel the places where the tissue thickened in response to a moment of fear, the areas where breath stopped during heartbreak, or the subtle density of someone carrying a responsibility too heavy for their age. These are not just restrictions. They are records.

Science is beginning to describe what practitioners have long sensed with their hands. Fascia is densely woven with interoceptors, proprioceptors, mechanoreceptors, and nociceptors, creating one of the most information-rich sensory networks in the body. These receptors do not just relay physical sensations; they respond to emotional states, autonomic shifts, and subtle changes in internal chemistry. When someone is afraid, lonely, overworked, grieving, or carrying unresolved tension, fascia receives that information before the conscious mind can interpret it.

Over time, these repeated emotional signals alter the collagen matrix itself. The ground substance thickens. Elasticity decreases. Glide diminishes. The tissue becomes a physical representation of an emotional history. What began as a moment of bracing becomes a pattern. Eventually, the pattern becomes posture, and posture becomes identity. This is how fascia stores emotional imprints that influence how a person walks, rests, reacts, and protects themselves. What clients feel as stiffness is often the residue of old vigilance. What they call tightness is often the body’s attempt to hold a story that never had a chance to be expressed.

When we work with fascia, we are not simply lengthening tissue or improving mobility. We are entering the emotional architecture of a person’s life. Gentle compression rehydrates the ground substance and makes the dense places permeable again. Slow stretching reorganizes collagen fibers that have been shaped by years of guarding. Pacinian and Ruffini receptors detect the warmth of our touch and signal safety along the vagus nerve. Interoceptors begin to update the brain’s perception of the body, allowing long-muted emotional signals to come into conscious awareness. As the layers soften, the nervous system begins to trust, and trust is the first doorway to release.

This is why clients often experience tears, trembling, laughter, heat, or a sudden memory during a session. The fascia is not only releasing; it is reorganizing the information it once held tightly. Electrical coherence returns. Circulation improves. Sensory accuracy sharpens. The body stops running old protective commands and starts rewriting its operating system. What once felt like a lifelong pattern begins to dissolve in the warmth of contact and presence.

Fascia is a sensory intelligence that interprets experience. The mind does not lead this process. It follows it. The mind interprets what the fascia feels and explains it long after the body has already changed. When we help clients reconnect to their fascial landscape, we are guiding them back to the body’s original language, the language beneath thought, beneath story, beneath habit—the language of emotional truth.

We, the ones who listen in silence, can hear what the fascia has carried through lineage, memory, and time.

11/24/2025

🧘‍♀️🙏🧘‍♂️

11/19/2025

Good Wednesday Morning! Join us for Chair Yoga at Peace Lutheran Church today from 12:30-1:30PM. Please note...we will be in the conference room today due to the blood drive being in the fellowship hall.

11/18/2025

11/18/2025

One week until our evaluation day at Peace Lutheran!

Here is what to expect:
Doors will open around 5pm
Check-in to make sure you are registered
Cheerleaders to meet some of their coaches
Skills and Drill stations (dribbling, passing, and Shooting)
After evaluation free to leave (should last 10-15 minutes per participant.

11/17/2025

Peace Lutheran Church will be hosting a blood drive Wednesday, November 19, from 1:00pm-5:00pm. It's not too late to sign up! Visit www.redcrossblood.org to schedule a time.

Thank you for being part of this life-saving mission!

11/17/2025

As a yoga teacher, I consider myself a "basic" teacher. During my YTT I did not learn a lot about the Chakras. Honestly, it wasn't a concern/desire for me to learn. If you've been in any of my classes before, you know I never mention them. I found this on a reputable site/page and wanted to share for all who are into the Chakras. 🧘‍♀️🙏🧘‍♂️

11/17/2025

This! 👇

Schedule your Reiki session with Mary today and experience the incredible relaxation and healing benefits that only Reiki can offer.❤️

11/17/2025

Too good not to share 🧘‍♀️🙏🧘‍♂️

Perfection isn’t the goal, presence is. ✨ Yoga just asks us to roll out the mat and try again.

What gets you to your mat on the messy days?

11/17/2025

I love the Action for Happiness page/site. Always uplifting. 🧘‍♀️🙏🧘‍♂️

Come see me tonight for some stretch and flow yoga at Be Balanced Yoga & Wellness Studio at 5:30

New Ways November - Day 17: Try a new way to practice self-care and be kind to yourself https://actionforhappiness.org/new-ways-november