Kayla Duncan LMT

09/26/2025

Somebody please clean up this mess 😂😂🙏🏻

09/26/2025

Fascia is one of the unsung heroes of healthy ageing. Many people focus only on muscles, bones, or skin, but fascia connects them all — and keeping it healthy helps us move with ease, reduce pain, and maintain vitality as we get older.

Here’s how fascia supports healthy ageing:

🌸Movement & Mobility
Fascia acts like a sliding suit that lets muscles glide over each other. When it’s flexible and hydrated, movements stay smooth, reducing stiffness. With age, fascia can thicken, dry out, or stiffen, leading to reduced range of motion, tightness, or that “creaky” feeling. Healthy fascia better mobility and fewer falls.

🌸Hydration & Circulation
Fascia holds and distributes water throughout the body. As we age, fascia naturally loses some hydration, which can affect the lymphatic and vascular systems, slowing healing and increasing swelling. Keeping fascia hydrated supports detoxification, nutrient delivery, and tissue repair.

🌸Pain & Sensory Health
Fascia is packed with nerve endings even more than muscles. Fascial restrictions are a hidden cause of chronic pain, stiffness, and sensitivity in ageing bodies. Caring for fascia helps reduce pain and improves body awareness (important for balance and coordination).

🌸Healing & Scars
Surgeries, injuries, or even repetitive stress can create fascial adhesions or scar tissue. These can pull on other structures, creating long-term discomfort. Gentle scar therapy and fascial release keep tissues more elastic and functional.

🌸Posture & Energy
Fascia distributes load across the body. When it stiffens, posture often collapses (rounded shoulders, forward head, hip tightness), which can make breathing shallower and movement more tiring. Healthy fascia supports better posture, deeper breathing, and more energy.

♥️Supporting Fascia for Healthy Ageing

Hydrate well – water keeps fascia springy. Keep moving – walking, stretching, yoga, tai chi, and dynamic exercise maintain elasticity. Massage & therapies – lymphatic drainage, scar therapy, fascia release help restore glide. Breathing practices – diaphragmatic breathing supports fascia, circulation, and relaxation.

In short: Fascia is central to healthy ageing. By keeping it mobile, hydrated, and free of restrictions, we can move better, hurt less, and stay more resilient well into later life.

09/22/2025

08/27/2025

What do you think about during a massage? I usually know what’s on my clients minds because session chatter is the norm in my office. For some people who can’t shut their minds off, light conversation or focused conversation about their treatment is very helpful. I know not everyone loves talking during a massage but I find silent massages to be borderline agonizing 😂😂 Communication is key to proper treatment.

Bringing it back to one of our most liked posts last year! 🔁

Remember to let go and relax during your treatment! 💚 When we have a lot on our minds, sometimes it can take a minute to decompress and clear your mind. Take a deep breath and remember that you deserve this time for yourself!

P.S. In many holistic health treatments, you're in a position to rest and digest, and a gurgling stomach simply confirms that you are truly relaxed. A noisy stomach is a normal bodily function and is nothing to be embarrassed about!

08/18/2025

Bodyworkers have known this for a long time!!! This kind of massage is actually one of my specialties.

A breakthrough discovery from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has revealed lymphatic vessels lying just beneath the skin of the face and neck. Once thought buried deep in the body, these vessels play a vital role in draining cerebrospinal fluid, which clears toxic proteins linked to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

In mice, scientists used a gentle device that stroked the face and neck, tripling cerebrospinal fluid flow within a minute. Remarkably, this restored older animals’ brain fluid movement to youthful levels, a change that could have major implications for slowing age-related neurodegeneration and cognitive decline.

Early experiments in monkeys show similar promise, raising hope that simple, non-invasive stimulation could one day support human brain health. By enhancing natural drainage pathways, this method might become a powerful new tool for preventing neurological diseases. Source: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Research.

07/28/2025

Most people don’t realize your jaw and pelvis are linked. Not just through posture or movement habits, but through your developmental blueprint.

Around day 15 of embryonic development, two critical areas begin to form: the oropharyngeal membrane, which becomes the mouth, and the cloacal membrane, which becomes the openings of the digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems.

The spine grows between them establishing a physical and neurological connection that lasts your entire life.
This connection continues through fascia and the central nervous system. The dural tube, which surrounds and protects the spinal cord, creates a continuous communication pathway from your jaw down to your sacrum.

When there’s tension or misalignment in the jaw whether from clenching, TMJ dysfunction, or altered bite it changes head posture. Your body compensates to keep balance, often by tilting the pelvis or shifting your weight.

Over time, these small changes can show up as chronic hip pain, pelvic instability, or forward head posture.
There’s also a functional link: the jaw and pelvic floor are both involved in how your body stabilizes the spine. They’re part of your core system.

If your jaw is clenched, chances are your pelvic floor is either overactive or not firing properly. This affects posture, breath control, and how your nervous system regulates tension.

Posture isn’t just a matter of standing tall. It’s a full-body coordination between systems that started forming before you were even born.

Read our full blog jaw and body are connected, link in bio ☝🏻




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