NeuroFascia Approach versus other Manual Fascia approaches.

The main difference between? Depth. Completeness.

The manual aspect of the NeuroFascia Approach features sustained release techniques. Not massaging, not rubbing, not vibrating. The sustained pressure has two objectives…1: giving the ground substance, the gel all around the fibers of the fascia the time it needs to change from hardened, dense and dehydrated, to fluid and viscous again and 2: it gives the nervous system the time it needs to feel the differentiated presence of the practitioner, and realize it no longer needs to maintain the defensive protective bracing pattern of the past.

We also incorporate working with the emotions via their location in the body. A very common emotion that people have experienced in the past is fear and the nervous system can hold onto fears about past events that it doesn’t yet realize are long over. So there is a physical sensation that the person associates with fear. In the NeuroFascia Approach we move and expand the emotions so they no longer remain “stuck” in the body.

In addition to the manual techniques, the NeuroFascia Approach also includes nervous system work. This happens in conjunction with the fascia work, or even separately from it as well. With the nervous system work it is all about helping your nervous system recognize that the threats of the past are over. It helps you to complete anything that your system feels is incomplete from the past in a manner that is sustainable for your nervous system. Further the nervous system aspect of the NeuroFascia Approach helps you build capacity within your system for joy, for motivation, for life’s good stuff. Believe it or not, many of us have a diminished capacity to tolerate the good stuff and we need to expand that too, to full enjoy our lives.

Lastly, The NeuroFascia Approach has a very strong emphasis on a differentiated therapeutic presence. I’d be willing to guess almost zero manual therapists have had any sort of training in this. And I know, from my experience working with clients that it is the most important thing in someone’s healing. So many therapists are so well intentioned and they are merging with their clients all day long and they have no idea. Merging means becoming one with their client’s experience, and losing their own nervous system as an anchor in the process. Not only can merging repeat past traumatic patterns for the client (and actually the therapist too), it can also deplete the therapist physically and emotionally.

So when I am asked, what’s the difference between The NeuroFascia Approach and other manual fascia therapies, it’s depth. It’s completeness. This work is not the equivalent of a fascia massage by a manual therapist (or even worse, by a machine!).