10/05/2025
💜 How Myofascial Release Differs From Massage — and Why Time Matters 🧡
Have you ever wondered what makes Myofascial Release different from massage?
This short video from Dr. Thomas Seager, CEO of Morozko Forge 🧊 (IMO, the best ice bath out there), explains it beautifully — fascia requires time to truly release.
Watching Dr. Seager’s posts — giving full lectures while calmly sitting in freezing cold water — really inspired me when I began my own cold plunge practice nearly four years ago. At that time, very few people were doing it, and seeing his ability to stay centered and peaceful helped me stay motivated and curious.
When I asked John F. Barnes (founder of the Myofascial Release Approach®) his thoughts on this video, he agreed it was a great explanation but wanted to add this important clarification:
“The problem… with yoga is that they push you into end range, and the problem is not end range — the problem is the restrictions before end range that create the end range problems. So it’s better to find the restrictions and wait with sustained pressure, until release occurs.”
I couldn’t agree more.
After decades of teaching movement, yoga, and healing work, I’ve found that stopping at the barrier, listening, and giving the body time to adapt is where the real change and release happen.
🧘♀️ My Yoga and Myofascial Release journeys actually began around the same time, and together they shaped the Myofascial Self-Treatment practice I still do faithfully each day.
Adding cold plunging into that routine has been life-changing. It’s helped me stay calm under pressure — literally! — and taught me how to relax into intensity, breathe, soften, allow, and feel, which are the same principles we use in The John F. Barnes Myofascial Release Approach®.
🍂 As the weather cools, fall is a perfect time to begin a cold plunge practice — and I’ll be hosting free live Zoom sessions to help anyone curious about getting started safely and effectively.
We’ll talk about the science, the mindset, and the step-by-step approach that helps your body adapt with greater ease and resilience.
I’ll also be introducing virtual options for Myofascial Self-Treatment, coming soon, for those who want to explore how these two practices complement one another.
If you’d like to join the cold plunge info sessions or be notified when the virtual programs open, comment below or send me a quick message.
These practices have transformed my own life — helping me reconnect with my body, my breath, and the quiet wisdom that’s always there when we slow down and listen.
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Fascia is filled with gel, which means that it resists pushing. Gels are non-Newtonian fluids. Under force, they grow viscous and hard. That's why massage...
