Advanced Healing Myofascial Release & Wellness

12/22/2025

For all of us who have been told 'you're fine, labs are great....let's look at an anti depressant.' This was my life for 10 years, until I almost died, diagnosed myself and took my health into my own hands. Myofascial Release was a huge part of my healing journey.

Having someone listen to you.....really hear you.....is pivotal to beginning your healing journey.

We see you, we hear you and we will be here for you as you walk your healing journey.

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There I was again in the ER, violently ill, knowing in my bones that something was wrong. Like clockwork, every six months my body brought me back to this same place. The doctor walked in with a kind smile and a clipboard, delivering the words meant to reassure. “Great news! All of our testing came back normal. You are the picture of health!”

Inside, it felt like a nightmare. Because when your body is in distress and the chart says everything is fine, you are left holding the pain alone. I knew something deeper was happening, even if it didn’t yet have a name or a number attached to it. The body is a master compensator, and that is both its greatest gift and its quiet burden.

What I learned through my own journey is that there are entire stories labs cannot tell. They did not reveal the chronic pain that taught my body to brace, or the trauma still living in my nervous system long after the moment had passed. They cannot measure heartache, grief, or how long a body has been holding its breath just to make it through the day. These stories live in fascia, in breath, in tone, and in the way a body guards itself like a faithful sentinel.

This is where a witness matters. Someone willing to look beyond the chart and listen to what the body has been carrying. Bodywork became that language for me, a way of understanding what my body had been trying to say all along. And now, it is how I help others. Sometimes healing begins with being seen, believed, and gently guided back into safety.

If this story feels familiar, let this be your reminder. You are not imagining your experience. Your body has been doing its best to protect you, and you do not have to carry it alone.

11/30/2025

Make a Reiki appointment with Mary today......and find your balance as the busy holiday season begins.❤️

🌿✨ Find Your Balance ✨🌿

Life will always ebb and flow — moments of calm, moments of chaos, and everything in between.

Balance isn’t something we achieve once, it’s something we gently return to again and again.

Reiki helps us remember that our center is never lost.
It’s always there — steady, grounded, glowing — waiting for us to reconnect.

So today, take a breath.
Place your hands over your heart.
Feel the soft, golden light of Reiki rise within you.
Let it anchor you, steady you, soothe you.

May Reiki guide you back to your inner harmony.

11/30/2025

FIBROMYALGIA: If you suffer from fibromyalgia or other 'pain syndromes,' this beautiful read about healing through gently releasing and awakening the fascia is for you. You are not alone.❤️

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The Quiet Symphony of Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain

Fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome often arrive in the body like two quiet storms. They move through tissue, sensation, and the nervous system in ways that are deeply physical yet profoundly invisible. To the outside world, these clients may look “fine,” but inside, the body is whispering its overwhelm with every breath, every step, every night of unrefreshing sleep.

Science tells us that fibromyalgia is not a flaw of strength or willpower. It is a shift in how the nervous system processes sensation. The volume dial in the spinal cord and brain becomes turned too high, a phenomenon known as central sensitization. Functional MRI studies show that even gentle pressure lights up pain-processing centers more intensely than in neurotypical bodies. Some clients also show small-fiber neuropathy, tiny peripheral nerves within fascia and skin firing more rapidly or inconsistently than they should. The result is a body that becomes hyper-attuned to touch, temperature, movement, and emotion. A body that reads too much, too fast, with too little recovery.

Myofascial pain syndrome, meanwhile, often begins within the tissue itself. Taut bands, trigger points, and oxygen-deprived fascial pockets become tight, guarded, and overly reactive. These areas send constellations of referred pain across the body. Chemical changes within trigger points alter pH, blood flow, and nerve firing. And when enough of these regions stay active for long enough, the nervous system becomes overwhelmed as well, and the entire picture begins to resemble fibromyalgia.

This is why so many clients drift between labels. Why their symptoms do not fit neatly into a single box. In truth, these conditions share pathways, amplify one another, and often coexist in the same tender, exhausted system.

For bodyworkers, this means our work is not about chasing knots. It is about tending to an ecosystem. Every stroke we offer becomes a message to a sensitized nervous system: “You are safe. You can soften. You do not have to guard everything.” Slow, broad contact helps soothe Ruffini endings. Gentle myofascial spreading reduces local nociception. Craniosacral holds, diaphragmatic softening, and vagus-aware techniques help invite a shift from sympathetic vigilance to parasympathetic rest. Even oscillation or subtle traction can bring clarity back to tissues that feel thick, congested, or disorganized.

Many clients with these diagnoses also carry autonomic dysregulation. Their heart rate fluctuates. They may overheat or freeze easily. Their digestion slows. Their sleep collapses into fragments. The body hovers between fight, flight, and collapse because it is tired of trying to keep up. This is where your steady presence matters. Predictable rhythm, grounding touch, warm draping, weighted bolsters, dimmer lighting—each becomes a lifeline that signals to the brain that it can quiet the internal alarms.

And then there is the emotional piece. People with fibromyalgia and myofascial pain have been dismissed more than nearly any other group. Their pain is real, yet they are often told it is “just stress,” “just hormones,” “just anxiety.” When we listen without minimizing, when we name their symptoms with accuracy and compassion, we are already helping the nervous system unwind. Safety is biochemical. Validation is an intervention.

Think of it this way: fascia is the instrument, the nervous system is the soundboard, and the brain is the composer trying to interpret the music of a life that has been too loud for too long. These conditions do not mean the body is broken. They mean the orchestra needs gentler acoustics and a different kind of conductor.

As bodyworkers, we do not force harmony. We offer resonance. We help retune what has become dissonant. We create a space where pain can soften enough for the person beneath it to breathe again.

And little by little, with steady hands and a nervous system that knows how to hold another, the body begins to remember its music.

11/23/2025

The most important thing I will post this year.👇❤️

If you find yourself at a point where you feel you want to heal deeply (physically and emotionally) and are in the process of learning and understanding how to do this......the fascia is the first, and most important, step. This article is so beautifully written, and explains the science of the largest system in our bodies, and how our emotions affect our physical movement and well being over time......through the fascia. This is a bit of a read, but well worth a few minutes, if you are interested in healing deeply and understanding how the fascia is tied to our ability to heal our bodies.❤️

Make an appointment today to begin your healing journey.❤️

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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.

11/16/2025

This! 👇

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

09/23/2025

Hello! This is a personal post for me, hoping I can reach some people. This little guy, Buddy, showed up at my clinic door last week, skinny and asking for help. Those who know me.....know I am the ultimate animal lover and could not turn him away.....so, I am currently fostering him through the Humane Community Shelter in Angola.

This little guy is stunning! He is a Marbled Tabby, meaning he has the thick racing stripes down his back, the perfect bulls eye on each side and the butterfly wings on his shoulders........we don't see these markings very often.😍 He is about 5 months old and will be a big boy, by the size of his paws. He is sweet, SOFT and playful.

He has obviously not been inside a house before and is a bit nervous, until he feels comfortable. He would do best with older kids, 12 and up. I worry that the enthusiasm of younger kiddos would make him nervous. So a patient new family that will give him time and patience to adjust would be best. And of course.....an inside only home. This little guy has had a rough start on the outside, and I am hoping to find him his forever inside home and a life of spoiled kitty luxuries.🙂

He will be neutered, all his shots and feline leukemia/FIV tested tomorrow, on Tuesday, and ready for his new home after. If you are thinking about adding a new kitty family member, I am glad to answer any questions or bring him to the shelter for a meet and greet. If not, I would appreciate if you could share Buddy's story with others, so we can find this boy his new forever home.❤️🐾

Also, if you are not ready for a new family member, but would be open to fostering Buddy, that would be great. My kitty was recently diagnosed with cancer💔 and I need to keep stress to a minimum......needless to say, he is not happy with a new kitty in the house. The shelter provides all food and supplies if needed. Just reach out if you are interested. Fostering is also a great way to see if the kitty is a fit or not. I have personal experience with being a foster failure.🙃

If you read all of this, thank you so much, and Buddy and I appreciate any help you can offer. Sharing is a great way to get this boy's story out and Buddy into his forever home.❤️🐾

Videos of Buddy in the comments!

07/19/2025

👇 This! Fascia (connective tissue) is the key to healing every aspect of our physical, energetic and emotional body. Science is FINALLY catching up to what so many of us have known for decades.


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06/07/2025

Great reminder from Brian Cashman, fellow Myofascial Release therapist.❤️

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Human touch, water, breath, food, nature—the original medicine. Get back to that.

“Effective things don't have to be complicated.
They just have to be consistent. Show up and
absorb as much nature as you can for the win.
Just because someone makes something seem
complicated doesn't mean it is.
All that nature comes down to energy. Energy
from the sun.
Energy from the ground. Energy from the water.
Energy from connection. Energy from the air.
Energy from the plants and trees.”
—Perry Nickelston, DC - Stop Chasing Pain—

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03/27/2025

I still have one spot available for my Reiki I & II class this weekend, March 29th and 30th. Please contact me if interested.❤️🙏🙌

USUI/HOLY FIRE III REIKI I & II CERTIFICATION

Do you feel a calling to help others or heal your own body or trauma, but dont know where to start? Being attuned to reiki (energy work) can open many doors to healing yourself and others, if you feel called to do so.

Reiki is an ancient Japanese healing modality that teaches us how to use universal energy, the Qi, or life force energy, that flows through every person and living thing, to heal ourselves and others. We ALL have the ability to tap in to this incredible healing energy. There is no experience needed, as every person has the ability to tap in to their own universal (creator, God) energy to assist in healing themselves and others. Reiki works by balancing the many energy areas (Chakras) of our bodies. When these areas become blocked, it can cause mental, emotional and physical issues to arise.......dis-ease. The human (and animal) body is capable of healing itself, but only if all systems are functioning in a balanced state (homeostasis); our energy body is a very important part of our bodies health, yet is rarely talked about in our traditional Western medical model. Many things cause our energy to become stuck or unbalanced, such as injuries, emotional and physical trauma, stress from every day life, environmental factors, and so much more.

Over the past decade, many of our largest hospitals have integrated reiki practitioners to their 'patient teams.' To name a few hospitals that have come to understand the importance of balancing the body's energy centers in order for the body to heal are: Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, New York Langone Hospital, Vanderbilt University Hospital and so many more. Some hospitals allow reiki practitioners in the operating room, to send healing energy during surgeries, showing improved outcomes......how exciting is this! It is incredibly exciting to see parts of the medical community finally acknowledge that our bodies are made up of energy, and this energy must be addressed in order to bring about complete and authentic healing.

Reiki is not a religion nor does it belong to any specific culture or ethnicity. It is simply the life force energy that flows through each of us from our Creator. You do not need to believe in or practice any religion in order to practice reiki. However, reiki can deepen ones faith and spirituality. Anyone can be attuned to this powerful, loving energy.

By completing the Usui/Holy Fire III Reiki I and II certification with Mary, you will be empowered to:

🌟 Heal your own body, mind and spirit by tapping in to the power of universal energy that flows through us all
🌟 Help others to heal their body, mind and spirit
🌟 Create your own business, if called to do so, helping people (and animals!) to heal

Why learn with Mary? Mary has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare field, working in the areas of physical therapy, Hippotherapy (using the horse as a therapy tool for disabled children and adults) and co-founder of Freedom Reins Therapeutic Riding Center in Southern Indiana, specializes in the Barnes Approach to Myofascial Release and a Usui/Holy Fire III Reiki Master for people and animals. She shares her passion for healing and teaching with others and provides one of the most thorough classes for learning reiki. Mary teaches her students that much of reiki and our body's energy is actually based in medical and scientific findings, which she shares with her classes.

If you are ready to heal yourself and perhaps, help others to heal, contact Mary today (call, text, email or messenger) to sign up for the Usui/Holy Fire III Reiki I and II certification on March 29th and 30th, 2025. Class size is limited, so don't wait. Mary feels that the more loving, healing reiki energy that we can bring forth and send out in to the world.....the more people, and the planet, can heal.❤️

This class will be held at Advanced Healing Myofascial Release & Wellness at 610 N. Wayne Street, Suite C, Angola, Indiana.

DATE: March 29 & 30, 2025

CLASS TIMES: 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm with a 1 hour lunch and breaks as needed.

COST: $395.00, includes manual and certificate of completion.

👇Click here to begin your healing journey today!❤️🙏

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03/13/2025

We are never 'broken.'❤️

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life will break us into many parts. some will pull you softly at the seams. some you will simply outgrow. some will crack and splinter sharply and leave a constant reminder of pain that once existed. and some will absolutely shatter you. being broken is necessary. being broken means that there is now space for some new light to shine through. or for a new passageway to reach you. or to be arranged in a brand new way. my love sometimes you have to break apart in order to break through.

~ 'broken' by ullie-kaye Ullie Kaye Poetry

~ Art by Ed Perkins

03/11/2025

HEALING IS....
Hard in the beginning.....
Messy in the middle.....
Beautiful in the end.

Are you ready to finally heal from pain, tightness, movement dysfunction or emotional pain? If so, please schedule an appt with Mary or Sarah today and remember.......

Healing is not a quick fix or a destination....healing is a journey.💕

03/11/2025

I have 2 spots remaining for my Usui/Holy Fire III Reiki I & II class on March 29th and 30th. Please contact me if you are interested.❤️🙏🙌

USUI/HOLY FIRE III REIKI I & II CERTIFICATION

Do you feel a calling to help others or heal your own body or trauma, but dont know where to start? Being attuned to reiki (energy work) can open many doors to healing yourself and others, if you feel called to do so.

Reiki is an ancient Japanese healing modality that teaches us how to use universal energy, the Qi, or life force energy, that flows through every person and living thing, to heal ourselves and others. We ALL have the ability to tap in to this incredible healing energy. There is no experience needed, as every person has the ability to tap in to their own universal (creator, God) energy to assist in healing themselves and others. Reiki works by balancing the many energy areas (Chakras) of our bodies. When these areas become blocked, it can cause mental, emotional and physical issues to arise.......dis-ease. The human (and animal) body is capable of healing itself, but only if all systems are functioning in a balanced state (homeostasis); our energy body is a very important part of our bodies health, yet is rarely talked about in our traditional Western medical model. Many things cause our energy to become stuck or unbalanced, such as injuries, emotional and physical trauma, stress from every day life, environmental factors, and so much more.

Over the past decade, many of our largest hospitals have integrated reiki practitioners to their 'patient teams.' To name a few hospitals that have come to understand the importance of balancing the body's energy centers in order for the body to heal are: Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, New York Langone Hospital, Vanderbilt University Hospital and so many more. Some hospitals allow reiki practitioners in the operating room, to send healing energy during surgeries, showing improved outcomes......how exciting is this! It is incredibly exciting to see parts of the medical community finally acknowledge that our bodies are made up of energy, and this energy must be addressed in order to bring about complete and authentic healing.

Reiki is not a religion nor does it belong to any specific culture or ethnicity. It is simply the life force energy that flows through each of us from our Creator. You do not need to believe in or practice any religion in order to practice reiki. However, reiki can deepen ones faith and spirituality. Anyone can be attuned to this powerful, loving energy.

By completing the Usui/Holy Fire III Reiki I and II certification with Mary, you will be empowered to:

🌟 Heal your own body, mind and spirit by tapping in to the power of universal energy that flows through us all
🌟 Help others to heal their body, mind and spirit
🌟 Create your own business, if called to do so, helping people (and animals!) to heal

Why learn with Mary? Mary has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare field, working in the areas of physical therapy, Hippotherapy (using the horse as a therapy tool for disabled children and adults) and co-founder of Freedom Reins Therapeutic Riding Center in Southern Indiana, specializes in the Barnes Approach to Myofascial Release and a Usui/Holy Fire III Reiki Master for people and animals. She shares her passion for healing and teaching with others and provides one of the most thorough classes for learning reiki. Mary teaches her students that much of reiki and our body's energy is actually based in medical and scientific findings, which she shares with her classes.

If you are ready to heal yourself and perhaps, help others to heal, contact Mary today (call, text, email or messenger) to sign up for the Usui/Holy Fire III Reiki I and II certification on March 29th and 30th, 2025. Class size is limited, so don't wait. Mary feels that the more loving, healing reiki energy that we can bring forth and send out in to the world.....the more people, and the planet, can heal.❤️

This class will be held at Advanced Healing Myofascial Release & Wellness at 610 N. Wayne Street, Suite C, Angola, Indiana.

DATE: March 29 & 30, 2025

CLASS TIMES: 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm with a 1 hour lunch and breaks as needed.

COST: $395.00, includes manual and certificate of completion.

👇Click here to begin your healing journey today!❤️🙏

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