Maia Lily Bodywork

11/11/2025

A transformation outside, but still cozy in!

11/08/2025

Getting down to it, just a few more days left with availability! I am working Veteran's Day next Tuesday, so that's a great time to come get a session in before maternity leave! https://www.maialilybodywork.com/services

10/28/2025

Layers.
That's the name of the game with Counterstrain. Peeling back the layers. Finding the strongest and most talkative culprits and knocking them out one by one. The layers don't lie in isolation, some are entangled, sometimes one knocks out a whole stack, but regardless it's a process, and as dysfunction gets resolved at one layer, a new one presents itself. And so we remain patient, take them down piece by piece until we find the underlying relief.

10/23/2025

When I started this journey, my mentor encouraged me to write down my motivation for becoming a bodyworker. It's as simple as this:

10/13/2025

Very grateful to be helping people! If you've worked with me, I'd love if you'd also leave me a review at: https://g.page/r/Ce5DO8PjcGjGEAE/review

10/07/2025

As a practitioner who has also been a chronic pain patient for three years, I have a unique perspective on pain. When doctors weren't finding anything wrong with my system, it was suggested to me multiple times that the pain is just in my head– psychosomatic. This is the last thing someone in pain wants to hear. It felt like the ultimate dismissal of what was very much real.

So when I received my first FCS session and finally met someone who not just believed my pain was real, but could also feel the dysfunction in my system, it was so validating. And when I took my first FCS class myself, and heard this quote from the developer and teacher of these techniques, it was incredibly affirming.

09/30/2025

Today marks the beginning of my final trimester! This means I'll only be at it a couple of more months before maternity leave, so now's the time to book! https://www.maialilybodywork.com/services

09/25/2025

I spend my days with teenagers, and no one knows better than them how hard it is to embrace and be fully yourself. But the struggle doesn’t end after adolescence. We all struggle to find our place in this world, and when we do, how to hold onto it amidst the discrimination and judgement that is so easy to come by, especially these days.

And so I want to remind you that you can be who you are. This is one of my core values and one that I built my business on. I’m here to support you in your quest to be yourself. And when you’re on my table, I will do everything in my power to make sure you feel safe, cared for and respected for being exactly who you are.

09/15/2025

How well do you know pain? Perhaps it's like a Jack in the box, popping up sporadically in the most unpleasant fashion. Or perhaps it's always there, a constant that you live with-- you resent it, but have learned to navigate your life with that weight.

I got into this work to help free people from pain, whether it's intermittent or constant. I believe pain is a communicator, an important message from our bodies, but I don't believe we should have to live in it once the message has been received. It's time to hang up the phone!

09/11/2025

08/28/2025

This is the first published clinical research on Fascial Counterstrain! Definitely a milestone for FCS, I truly believe this will be a modality everyone knows about perhaps 10 years from now-- the effects are tremendous!

AbstractIntroduction. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with hyperactivity of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and elevated levels of