Head 2 Soul

08/10/2025

✨ Release • Relax • Restore ✨
Join us for Fascia Fundamentals Workshop 🌀
📅 Sunday, August 24 | ⏰ 1–4 PM | 📍 Santa Monica

Experience:
🌿 Guided Meditation to quiet the mind
🎶 Soothing Sound Bath to melt tension
💆‍♀️ 2+ Hours John Barnes Myofascial Release to deeply unwind
🎁 Take-home Self Care Tool to keep the healing going

💲 $150 | Limited spots in our beautiful private space!
🔗 Sign up now: [link in bio]

Your body will thank you. 💛

02/05/2025

🫶🏻Forever Learning, Forever Growing 🫶🏻

One of my biggest passions is continuing to learn, evolve, and bring more healing tools—not just for myself, but for my clients to thrive as well. 💜

This past weekend, I took an amazing and interactive course with Herman & Wallace Pelvic Institute on Yin Yoga & Acupressure for Optimal Pelvic Health—so interesting to me! We mapped acupressure points and explored yin yoga techniques that help with:
✨ Low back pain
✨ Painful s*x
✨ Prolapse
✨ Painful menstruation
✨ Bladder leakage
✨ Constipation
to name a few things…
Yin yoga has been a love of mine since taking a full training in 2018 (in Ibiza! 🌊☀️) because it emphasizes softening, surrender, and stillness—a much-needed connection to the body and a contrast to the constant “do-do-do” of life. Now, applying it specifically to pelvic health feels like such a gift.

And then there’s acupressure—connecting with energy centers, the fascia (my jam! 🙌), and releasing blocked Qi with gentle finger pressure. It’s a powerful way to shift the body into rest, digest, and heal mode—which is so crucial, as emotional trauma often lives in the body at a cellular level and can hinder physical healing.

The best part? These techniques can be used in the clinic AND easily taught for home practice, empowering clients with tools for lasting change.

Special shoutout to my furry study buddy Gracie who kept me company during this online course (while I was visiting my friends gorgeous retreat center in Nashville).🥰

💫 Excited to integrate these new skills into my practice and continue supporting healing from Head2Soul. 💫

12/13/2024

It’s on official! Today I presented my doctorate capstone and I’m officially Dr. Erica Reid. Wild!
I used to have dreams that I’d go back to school just to get my masters and I woke up feeling like it was a nightmare. No way! Then last October I decided to go beyond that and go for my doctorate and within two weeks I was enrolled and back in school.
Those first months were tough transitioning into that level of schooling, and the joke was that I would get my Dr and Mike would get his therapy degree because he had to talk me off the ledge a few times ha ha!
Fast-forward to today and I am the first student to go from bachelors to doctor in only 13 months.
Does this change how I treat my clients? No. Will my brother Scott call me Dr? He says no. Ha ha. Am I finally done with schooling? Nope. Will it help bring awareness as an OT for pelvic floor therapy and our position with it? Absolutely. Will it help get grants for my nonprofit? So I’m told. Am I over here dancing like nobody’s watching? Bet your ass I am! 🤪
This has been a wild ride, and I have a lot of gratitude for my own fortitude, and those that supported me along the way.
My main advisors Dr Kerrie believed in me from the start when everyone else thought I was taking on too much. My own horse, Reva, has been an absolute inspiration and I’m so thankful she chose me. I’m thankful for my two clients who were my case studies , and let me lead them through a six week program not knowing what exactly it would look like and how it would progress. I’m thankful to Eva. for allowing me to use the facilities and the horses at Moonshadow Ranch. And last, but not least to Michael, for his support by listening to my endless,l worries or frustration, for his patience, for the kick in the butt when I needed it, ever believing in me and so much so that he creates this amazing fundraiser for us at the end of the year. 💜
I thought for sure I’d be done with school after this, but in January, I start up some equine therapy training and I couldn’t be more excited. …
But tonight … we party 🎉🎉🎉
just kidding I’ll be in bed by nine. Lots of sleep to catch up with 🤪

08/21/2024

✨ Fascia: The Unsung Hero of Movement ✨

Imagine a network of connective tissue covering every muscle, bone, organ, skin and even cell in your body—this is fascia, and it’s what gives us the freedom to move with ease and grace.

🌟 In this video, watch as the “fascia body” dances, showing how this incredible tissue supports every movement we make.

John Barnes Myofascial Release (MFR) works directly with this vital system. By gently releasing restrictions in the fascia, MFR helps to restore balance, reduce pain, and enhance your body’s natural flow. When fascia is healthy, it allows us to move freely, live pain-free, and feel fully connected to our bodies. Let’s celebrate the magic of fascia and the power of Myofascial Release in helping us all move through life with more freedom! 🕺💃

08/21/2024

07/28/2024

Unwinding….

Feeling stuck in your movements… mindset… or even in your life’s momentum? Your body might be calling you to slow down, to feel, to allow your fascia to find areas that ARE stuck and holding you back. To open up new possibilities…

This myofascial release technique allows your body’s innate wisdom to take over and move as needed to release stuck patterns, often from past trauma or injury. The best example of this natural, non-conscious movement is how a cat stretches and twists its body, often even yawning in the process.

Unwinding can be done sitting, standing, or lying down. Start by elongating your spine, reaching your arms out, and pressing your legs into the ground. Breathe deeply, bring your awareness inward, and follow your body’s motion. Move where your body wants to go, not where you think you should. Matter of fact, try not to ‘think’ at all with this…

The beautiful thing about this technique, you can do it anytime, anywhere. Just let your body move slowly. It may feel awkward at first since we’re used to purposeful movements, but give yourself time to tune in and find a natural flow. When your body pauses, breathe into it until it’s ready to move again. Feel any sensations, thoughts, or emotions here- without judgement.

Welcome home to your own wisdom 💫

07/18/2024

✨ Big Disco Celebration Over Here!! ✨

I’m officially a Female Sexuality Coach 🎓💖

In 2022 I embarked on another one of my endless educational journeys and begin the year-long training to become a certified VITA s*x love & relationship coach. Then I decided to major in female s*xuality- I figured it was a win-win- win for myself, my relationship and my clients…. And I wasn’t wrong! Just got the official word that I’m certified in this major.

This training is a huge milestone because it means I can better support women in reclaiming their true essence, free from pain and shame and walking into their power and pleasure! Through coaching style integrative practices, I can work with women online that can’t see me in person🌟

But don’t worry, for those who come to my office you’re not missing out – the practices, the knowledge and the support that comes with this somatic like work is always appropriately woven into my treatments.

Want to start your taking your first steps of walking into your empowerment journey today? Click the link in my bio for my ABC’s of moving from pain and shame to pleasure and power in your pelvic floor. Let’s rise together! 💪✨