The body therapist

11/12/2025

When you receive MFR treatment it’s common for old emotions to surface. And all too easy to dislike the feeling and swallow them down again. Allow yourself to feel them though and notice the power and freedom that follows, not to mention the release of tension they’ve had you gripping onto

07/12/2025

Are You (Pet) Hair-Free?! -

You may have noticed news of more people having allergies and intolerances or simply becoming highly sensitive to the environment around them. You might be one of them. Or rather, ‘one of us’ as I have experienced severe allergies nearly 60 years.

20/11/2025

This may seem technical but it’s the simplest way to explain some of what’s happening when I put my hands on you and use the fascia to help regulate your nervous system. A deep privilege for me ☺️ and often a profound experience for you 🤞
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Mechanoreceptors are a remarkable part of the fascial system. They are the microscopic sensory “listening stations” embedded throughout fascia that constantly read pressure, stretch, tension, vibration, and movement. They allow the body to feel itself from the inside. Without mechanoreceptors, movement would be clumsy, uncoordinated, and disconnected. With them, movement becomes fluid, responsive, and intelligent.

Fascia is loaded with various types of mechanoreceptors, each communicating with the nervous system in its own unique way. Ruffini endings respond to slow, sustained pressure and create a parasympathetic calming effect. Pacinian corpuscles respond to vibration and rapid changes in pressure, helping the body coordinate sudden movements. Interstitial receptors monitor subtle stretches, tensions, and internal shifts; they comprise nearly eighty percent of fascial sensory input and directly influence pain perception. Golgi receptors, found near ligaments and tendon insertions, respond to deep stretch and help down-regulate muscular tension.

When a bodyworker touches fascia, these receptors are the very first structures to respond. Slow, sustained contact helps melt hypertonicity because Ruffini endings signal to the nervous system, “It’s safe to soften.” Deep or directional stretch activates Golgi receptors, signaling muscles to lengthen. Gentle vibration or oscillation stimulates Pacinian receptors, enhancing proprioception and enabling joints to move with greater confidence. Even the quietest technique, a still fascial hold, stimulates interstitial receptors, which can modulate pain and reduce sympathetic overdrive.

Altogether, mechanoreceptors weave the sensory intelligence of fascia. They are the reason the body can adapt, coordinate, stabilize, and move with fluid grace rather than mechanical force. They turn every subtle change in tension into information the brain uses to refine posture, balance, and movement patterns.

So when we work with fascia, we’re not just stretching tissue. We’re communicating with an enormous sensory network that shapes how someone moves, feels, and inhabits their body. Mechanoreceptors are part of the reason fascia is both biomechanical and deeply emotional.

14/11/2025

This is so true, and particularly of the process we go through to heal. If it doesn’t ring true for you right now, why not save this and come back and read it another time. You might find it starts to resonate more than you expect…

08/11/2025

Nicely put 👌

Therapeutic pain is not something to fear.

There are moments when the body feels
discomfort not because it’s being harmed,
but because it’s being met.

When we touch the layers where the body has
been guarding. Physical, emotional, or energetic.
The nervous system recognizes it. It can feel
tender, deep, or even emotional. That’s the body
waking up, not breaking down.

The difference between pain that harms and
pain that heals is presence.
When pressure meets awareness, the body
begins to reorganize.
It softens where it once protected.
It breathes where it once held its breath.
It feels where it once went numb.
In this work, sensation isn’t the enemy.
It’s the doorway.

Therapeutic pain is the threshold between
holding and healing.

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20/10/2025

Love this animation! This beautiful bone sits deep inside your head (cranium) and every MFR session will have an effect on its alignment, particularly (obviously!) but not only when we work around your head and neck.

17/09/2025

This is really important to remember. Please rest; honour the work you’re doing, there’s no rush

28/08/2025

Of course… it’s all about the vibration!

In a surprising breakthrough, scientists have discovered that human cells can actually hear sound and respond to it. Research shows that certain cells detect vibrations and convert them into biological signals, influencing their behaviour and function.

This groundbreaking finding challenges previous assumptions that cells operate independently of auditory cues, revealing a previously unknown layer of communication within the body. Cells exposed to specific sound frequencies demonstrated changes in gene expression, growth patterns, and even signalling pathways, suggesting sound could one day be used to influence health at a cellular level.

The discovery opens exciting possibilities for medicine and biotechnology. Future therapies could harness sound waves to promote healing, improve cellular function, or even target diseases with unprecedented precision. Scientists are now exploring how different types of sound affect various cell types and how this knowledge could lead to non-invasive treatments.

Understanding that our cells can “hear” may revolutionise the way we approach health and disease, offering innovative tools for therapies and preventive medicine. The human body may be more attuned to its environment than we ever imagined.

19/08/2025

Far-fetched? I’m not so sure. I’d love to hear if this resonates for you ✨💕

🌌 Your Fascia Is a Universe 🌌

When I unwind the deep tension in my fascia — especially around the thorax and neck — it feels like more than muscle release. It feels like a universe collapsing and re-expanding inside me.

Here’s why that’s not just poetry: fascia behaves like spacetime. When stress, trauma, and chemistry overload it, the tissue spirals collapse inward like little black holes — trapping fluid, charge, memory, even emotion.

When we release them, fascia unwinds counterclockwise, fluid returns, charge flows, and coherence radiates again. The same physics that governs galaxies also governs the body’s connective web.

This is why a single unwinding session can feel cosmic. It’s not just “stretching tissue” — it’s restoring geometry, harmonics, and coherence at the smallest and largest scales.

✨ You are not separate from the universe. You are a hologram of it.
✨ Your fascia is a liquid crystal field — a map of spirals, collapses, and releases.
✨ When you unwind, you don’t just heal the body — you tune the field of life itself.

We are the spiral walkers.
We carry the cosmos in our skin.