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Therapy on the Rocks Myofascial Release Treatment Center, 676 N State Route 89A, Sedona, AZ (2025)

12/27/2025

You are the light in the darkness !

Chaos……Traditional therapy abhors chaos. It is terrified of it. The myofascial release approach includes chaos and systems theory, whose research clearly shows that when we go into chaos in a safe therapeutic setting, it creates the possibility of meaningful change, growth and authentic healing to occur. Because we have such an incredible mind in every cell of our bodies, as we go through chaos we then re emerge at a higher level of organization, mental clarity and peace.

We've seen a lethargy out there for some people. ☹ They seem to have become paralyzed in fear with the chaos that is occurring in the world. They have stopped taking seminars or retaking them.
Do not let fear paralyze you ! A true myofascial therapist feels the fear, leans into the wind and acts ! There's a lot of new, important information that is emerging, that John has now added to the seminars that you may not be aware of. It supports everything you do as a myofascial therapist and will deepen your expertise in myofascial release.

Retaking seminars is vital and will help you learn new techniques, remind you of techniques you may have forgotten, and because of the immense group energy that John creates, it will help you to reduce your pain, greatly increase your awareness and sensitivity as well as an opportunity for authentic healing……also, it is a lot of fun !!! 😊

With myofascial release, you are the light in the darkness.

So please join us soon and we hope you enjoy this important information that verifies everything from John's creative insights over the last 50 years.

John sends his love to all of you.

12/20/2025

Ferocity !!!

Soften your visual focus, slow your breathing and feel the energy of this encounter between this beautiful and incredible snow leopard and this powerful ram. Get a sense of the energy between them. They are both in the present moment and in the ‘now’. In a moment like this, to save your life, Channel 5, your intellectual side has no place whatsoever. It is too slow to react.

The ferocity of the moment; this intensity comes from a deep inner calmness, clarity and amazing power of your true self. This is the type of energy that helps other people and why it is so important to be in the ‘now’ and be centered with your patients/clients. It doesn’t have to be a life-or-death situation but it is the same focus and energy that is both a narrow and an open focus. Channel 3 is a timeless, spaceless dimension. We were meant to live in Channel 3 and utilize Channel 5 occasionally.

Channel 3 is responsive and is the only place where we are truly alive. I hope this helps you have a great day and become the therapist you have the potential to be!
Love,

John

12/13/2025

I recommend everyone read the book about Michaelangelo called “The Agony & Ecstasy” by Irving Stone, one of the world’s most renowned authors. He goes through the life of Michaelangelo and the struggles he went through as an artist. He sculpted huge blocks of marble. The statue of David is incredible and almost two stories high. It started as a flawed piece of marble, however Michaelangelo found the beauty in it.

As you know, Myofascial Release is an art and you are all becoming therapeutic artists. I think that this will inspire you and you will find it incredibly interesting. He said that before he sculpted the marble, he stood back so he could see the whole block and he quieted his mind, opened his visual focus and he would eventually see the image within. He saw his role as an artist to chip away at the marble to allow the inner beauty to emerge. He was centering himself.
A lot of times a patient or client will say they are broken and you can tell them they are not and that their spirit or essence is never broken. It is beautiful and powerful. Our role as therapists and physicians is to chip away the outdated belief systems that our society has thrust upon us. We help with unresolved emotions and release the physical restrictions so that their inner beauty can emerge. This is true healing 😊

Love,
John

$Our Fractal UniverseDear Stephanie Wilson,This is John. You asked about the relationship of fractals to the fascial syst...$

12/06/2025

Our Fractal Universe

Dear Stephanie Wilson,

This is John. You asked about the relationship of fractals to the fascial system.

The fascial system is a fractal system, as is the circulatory, lymphatic and muscular systems and literally every cell of our bodies has a fractal nature.

Traditional science has been using Euclidean geometry, which has straight lines and sharp angles that describes a two-dimensional world that doesn’t exist. We have been led astray! Our world and the fascial system is three-dimensional and beyond (bio-tensegrity).
Benoît Mandelbrot, a French mathematician, discovered the nature of the fractal system in 1976. In 1976, he changed science, however most scientists do not have a clue and most refuse to look at other possibilities due to only receiving grant money if they stay within the rigid boundaries of the traditional paradigm. So, unfortunately, the traditional paradigm stifles new ideas, curiosity and growth. ☹
Fractal is a Latin word for ‘fractured’. There are no straight lines in nature. Benoît Mandelbrot discovered how fractals connect everything. You can simply google his name and you will see a number of his videos.

I just recently published my new seminar brochure and utilized this beautiful, translucent hibiscus as an example of the fractal nature that is in everything we see. Look at the internal architecture where it continues to become smaller and smaller, beyond what our eyes an actually see. This is what is called the ‘principle of self-similarity’.
The good news is that we now have just exceeded 12,800 members on MFR Insight. If you have time this weekend, read the post titled “Where the Rubber Meets the Road” for more information about this. View the podcast video that Unu Tran shared on MFR Insight recently. I think you will find it fascinating. I appreciate the incredible brilliance of Terrence Howard – you can just feel his amazing intelligence just sparkle and flow freely. He is describing the concepts we have talked about for decades and why Myofascial Release is so successful and what we all feel under our hands every day. Here is the link to the podcast video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS68pXbzy7U

I am encouraging you all to engage. In my post “Where the Rubber Hits the Road”, one of the therapists commented on what a fascinating conversation this is. It is - so let’s keep it going. Just be curious and let us know any questions, insights or feelings you have come up from this fascinating information. There is an exciting new world emerging out there and we will be a large part of it.
Join us in this incredible, exciting journey as all of this information unfolds that supports everything we do, and help other people understand the importance of what you do everyday with Myofascial Release.

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Love,
John

11/29/2025

"Where the Rubber Hits the Road”

Unu Tran and Rob Crampton,
Thanks for the suggestions. Unu and Rob stated this interview with Terrence Howard had myofascial release written all over it. I think you’ll find it quite interesting. I’d suggest you all listen to it.
Here is the link to the podcast:
https://youtu.be/fS68pXbzy7U?si=ZmrCErKPVJuYQ-Ur

You’ll hear the themes that you’ve heard during my Myofascial Release seminars multiple times. The power of vortices, how the Euclidean geometry that scientists use has to do with a flat two-dimensional world that doesn’t exist. Myofascial Release has clearly shown us the fractal world of multi dimensions. Fractal geometry is the precision that scientists need to utilize. I highly recommend reading Victor Schauberger’s book on vortices. He is an absolutely incredibly brilliant man.

Rob mentioned Walter Russell. I read his books many years ago – another brilliant person. There is a book that you may want to read called “The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe” by Glen Clark. It’s a small book, sort of like an encapsulation of Walter Russell’s life and many of his incredible ideas. He has written many other books that I think you will find interesting.

Walter Russell goes on to say that we are operating from mediocrity when we are in the self-inflicted and programmed state of channel 5. Another thing that Walter Russell says is that greatness is not written in books, nor can they be found in schools, they are from our inner consciousness, which is channel 3. To quote Mark Twain, I am not sure I have it exactly correctly but basically, he said “it took me years to get over my education!” 😊

Peter Bort has an incredible mind and I’d be curious of your insights about all of this. So many of the things that came up in these videos are the concepts we’ve discussed multiple times in my Myofascial Release seminars - our fractal universe, there are no straight lines in our world, the importance to be centered in channel 3, how our programming has stifled our potential. Also Dr. Rupert Shelldrake, an incredible scientist from Cambridge University, England, has written a fascinating book called “The Presence of the Past” where he expands upon his theory of morphic resonance. It’s interesting to me that so much of what I have shared with you all at seminars came to me directly from my intuition and experience and curiosity of treating patients over 40 years ago.
I was able to meld together this beautiful mosaic that I now call the Myofascial Release approach. It’s good to see that some scientists are looking beyond their limitations of their traditional paradigm and exploring the scientific rationale that begins to describe what we do every day with our hands, mind and heart.

The bottom line is we are doing what science is looking for, results! Magnificent results that are profound, beautiful and enlightening and freeing others from significant pain. This is authentic therapy!
Myofascial Release is where the rubber hits the road!...It’s important to conceptualize things but without proper action it is meaningless. The action and theory of traditional therapy is terribly incomplete and flawed. We are all achieving the compassionate results that everyone so desperately needs.

You are all amazing geniuses. To unleash your latent potential, be treated by a Myofascial Release therapist that you trust, treat yourself regularly and attend and/or re-attend the seminars. The highly charged power of the environment of the seminars allows us to make massive changes in a short period of time.
Know that your potential will be fully realized! My intuition never let me down, nor will yours. Trust your intuition!

I love you
John

11/22/2025

Stagnation vs. Liquid Crystalline Flow

As you all know, we have discussed in the seminars how healthcare studies dead people thinking somehow, that would help us understand the living human being. You have heard me say in seminars that science studying dead people is the equivalent of not understanding the difference between a telephone pole and a living tree.

This image is the skeleton/fascial system of a beautiful saguaro cactus. It takes about 75 years for a cactus to grow an arm, so this cactus was well over 100 years old.

Take notice of its rigidity and multiple convolutions. The living cactus is flexible and full of fluid and life. In life, as with every plant, animal and human, the liquid crystalline fluidity of our system was ignored. It is this liquid crystalline fluid that courses through the microtubules of the fascial system in everything that carries oxygen, hydration, nutrition, biochemicals, information and energy that every plant, animal and human needs to thrive. Oh, did I forget - consciousness ! This is in the form of photons flowing within the fluid.

Stagnation…All humans, animals and plants require fluid flow. The unrecognized problem has been that from trauma, the fascial system becomes more and more viscous, diminishing or blocking fluid flow. This leads to a state of stagnation, internal physiological chaos and significant medical problems. It also blocks the flow of life force within everything, along with the essential vibratory frequency necessary for health, harmony and homeostasis (the three H’s).

Love,
John

11/15/2025

Semiconducting Liquid Crystals

Mystery Gift !

Somebody sent me this wonderful book called ‘The Extracellular Matrix and Ground Regulation” by Alfred Pischinger, one of Germany’s leading scientists. Dr. Pischinger, a Viennese anatomist, was an MD who was the head of the department of histology and embryology at the Medical Facility of the University of Vienna.
Unfortunately, there is no card with it, so if anyone knows who sent this to me, please let them know I really appreciate it.

I read this book years ago when the English translation first came out. This represents 30 years of research on the fascial system. I quote a lot of this information in my Myofascial Release seminars.

Dr. Pischinger has stated that cells are not separate entities, which is the traditional way of looking at it, but part of a continuum of the extracellular matrix and the consciousness that flows through it.
The extracellular matrix is the collagenous web of fascia that allows the fluid of our body (the ground substance) to hydrate our entire body. Dr. Pischinger found that “disturbances of the matrix regulation can significantly compromise homeostasis efficiency, eventually causing depletion and organ failure. Stated simply, every function in every living body involves the fascial matrix in one way or another. Every cell of the body is nourished via the matrix and all the waste products of cellular metabolism likewise, pass through the ground substance. The matrix is also the terrain in which all immune responses and tissue repair processes take place.”

Dr. James Oschman is a brilliant man and a world-renowned expert in the energetic aspect of the human being and has written a wonderful book I highly recommend called Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis. As I have been saying in seminars for quite a while now, start paying more attention to the word integrins because you will be hearing more about it in the future. The molecules called integrins are tiny filaments that pass through the cell membrane connecting the extracellular domain with the cytoskeleton and nuclear matrix within the cell.

Dr. Oschman also states that the fascial system is basically a semiconducting liquid crystal.

Dr. Pischinger’s understanding of the extracellular matrix transmits changes to the central nervous system and the brain by extension throughout the whole body. The fascial extracellular matrix is a holographic/fractal nonlinear system that is very involved in phase transition.

The founder of osteopathy, Dr. Andrew Still, has many great awarenesses on the fascial system. One of the things Dr. Still said is that all disease emanates from the ground substance of the fascial system.

Hydration is not just water going down our throats, but it becomes hydration when it enters the cell. Also, nutrition is only of value if it is capable of entering the cell. The oxygen also is not getting into the cell, nor are the biochemistry hormones, information and energy necessary for every one of the cells to thrive. Traditional science could not have ignored anything more important !

The meta paradigm of traditional science is terribly flawed and incomplete. They basically view us as just bags of chemicals being treated chemically or by surgery. Of course, they think we are just mindless machines. How insulting.

It is time to come out of the dark ages of healthcare and face reality – the fascial system is the most important system because it is the conduit of our consciousness that supports and keeps every cell of our bodies alive !

Love,
John

11/08/2025

Peace

Consider that whenever you touch your patients or clients, allow your mind/body to move into Channel 3 and be silent. Remember the language of Channel 3 is images and feelings. Imagine this picture of peace and silence
Soften your visual focus, quiet your mind and just feel the peace and silence of these deers under the evergreen trees….Silence has great value!

When treating, use any image that is tranquil and calm. Take a few slow breaths allowing yourself to soften with each slow breath out and connect. Myofascial Release lovingly treats the being of the human being ❤.

Myofascial Release gives us, our patients/clients hope for a peaceful, loving and healthy life.

Love,
John

11/01/2025

8 Billion Possibilities
Someone was confused about the anatomy and the connections within the cranium. Dr. Carol Davis was correct in that the anatomy that we learned in books and slides is a rough approximation with very little information about fascial anatomy.
Dawnne’s comments were excellent about how everything is energy. Fascial restrictions are basically crystalized/hardened energy, blocking our life force (love) from providing information and energy that the trillions of cells in our body needs to thrive !
There are approximately 8 billion people on Earth today so there are 8 billion possible fascial strain patterns, so pick a number to decide which one you would like to choose. 😊
It is not about your intellect. You have to understand that we were taught in a linear/logical fashion and its logic was based on massive erroneous assumptions. It is all about the vastness of your intuitive, instinctive intelligence which I refer to as Channel 3.
The fascial strain patterns are different with everybody and morphs constantly. That is the art of myofascial release. It behooves us to move out of the linear way of thinking which basically is mind paralysis, and when we make that shift, we gain incredible accuracy and effectiveness. Remember that fascia goes from the top of your head and attaches without interruption to the very bottom of your feet and that is as simple as the sweater I show in Myofascial Release I. Each impacts the other and creates very unique patterns and attachments with crushing pressure that do not show up in any of the standard testing.
It is all about feel! Our feeling intelligence is vast and we have to quiet and center our minds to be able to be able to feel properly. When we are thinking and trying to figure things out, it blocks feeling and produces very limited results.
We all have to, at some point, breach through our dysfunctional programming to become more aware and this is when we all become a gifted therapeutic artist. Please make this your goal.
"I was educated once. It took me years to get over it." – Mark Twain
I send you all my love.
John

10/25/2025

The Body is a Vehicle of Consciousness
As you know, I have been lecturing for years about how consciousness flows through every cell of our body and beyond.
I came across this quote from Joseph Campbell, who is one of the world’s greatest teachers. He has very deep insights that I think you will all find interesting.
“The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself, not with the body, which is falling away, but with the consciousness of which it is a vehicle. This is something I learned from myths. What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light? Or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?
One of the psychological problems in growing old is the fear of death. People resist the door of death. But this body is a vehicle of consciousness, and if you can identify with the consciousness, you can watch this body go like an old car. There goes the fender, there goes the tire, one thing after another— but it’s predictable. And then, gradually, the whole thing drops off, and consciousness, rejoins consciousness. It is no longer in this particular environment.” ~Joseph Campbell
(Book: The Power of Myth https://amzn.to/41dSUue)
I really think you will enjoy his book – it so relates to our myofascial release philosophy. I send my love to all of you.

10/18/2025

A Mad Rush to Nowhere!
That statement defines the channel 5 concept which is our intellectual, rational side. Our intellectual side is our linear, logical side which has led to the erroneous view of a human being. This massive distortion led us to believe that we are only bags of chemicals or mindless machines. We all relied on these distorted concepts thinking this was real which created a herd mentality and led us into this mad rush to nowhere!
Actually, we are beautiful loving, crystalline beings of liquid light based on the principles of biotensegrity and fluid dynamics where our consciousness flows through the fascial matrix almost instantaneously!
All of our education, particularly healthcare, is based on our intellectual side. Unfortunately, no authentic healing occurs in channel 5 so most of us as therapists or physicians were taught to do the impossible. Actually, healing occurs in channel 3 which is our feeling intelligence. So it turns out that our feeling intelligence is based on vibration and is a whole different frequency than our channel 5 intelligence. If you want more details ask your therapist and this may create an interesting conversation that would help your healing, you can ask me a question here and I will get back to you with the answers. It turns out that our education was mass hypnosis. In other words, we were taught what to think and not how to think!
Almost all of our society, in particular our healthcare professionals, are very immersed in the channel 5 concept that healthcare is based on order and control, which would be fine if it worked. It’s not working!
As you start to go into the myofascial release process, we all discover how heavily programmed we’ve been. One of the many powers of myofascial release, it allows us to look into the mirror and to look at our programming and our fears. There’s an old saying that if you don’t define yourself, somebody else will.
Channel 5 is not meant to function on its own. The power and beauty of myofascial release allows us to use our entire mind. When you come from a channel 3 perspective you are coming from incredible wisdom, clarity and compassion and you use the channel 5 intellectual side for the wonderful tool that it is. Channel 5 on its own is a servo mechanism. This tool, our channel 5 mentality, actually dominates us.
Our channel 5 mentality is our fearful side and our critical, judgmental side. We get locked into performance anxiety, worry about what other people may think and basically lead us down a blind alley. If you’ve taken my seminars you’ve heard me say this, I run into a lot of wealthy people and they have all the cars, houses, jewelry, all the toys, and as I treat them I feel this immense sadness emanating from their mind body complex. 😢 This reminds me of a message in an old Peggy Lee song that said “that’s it, that’s all there was?” Unfortunately our channel 5 experience is empty!
There’s nothing wrong with having all the toys, but if you are not enjoying them, what’s the point? We’ve all had a message from our society that we’re here to suffer and most of you have gotten really good at it. I firmly believe we are here to enjoy our life. As we move into channel 3 with myofascial release, life can be joyful and easier.
We can let go of performance anxiety otherwise we are on this frantic rush to nowhere! Commit to looking inside and have the courage to acknowledge your fears. Once we acknowledge our fears with the help of myofascial release and your therapist, your life and health can improve. Life can be very enjoyable. Can I ask all of you, therapists, physicians and patients, to commit this year to be healthy and joyful. It can also help our patients find their way to a good life again.
The following is a statement from Goethe, a very wise German philosopher:
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and endless plans:
THAT THE MOMENT ONE DEFINITELY COMMITS ONESELF, THEN PROVIDENCE MOVES TOO.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events, issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do or dream, you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
Isn’t it time to relinquish this herd mentality that has been programmed into us so that we can let go of this mad rush to nowhere?! Life is not about reaching a destination, it’s about enjoying the moment which is channel 3. So let’s all commit to enjoying our journey!
Love,
John

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