Energy Fascial Release

What is Energy Fascial Release?

This technique is a hands-on healing method pioneered by Maria Alfieri, known as @magicalhandsphysicaltherapy on Instagram. I had the privilege of receiving training from her in 2024

Fascia is the largest organ of the body. It keeps us together. All the organs, bones, veins, arteries, skin, etc. The fascia holds the diary of this lifetime experience. Studies show that the meridian system runs through the fascia that's why it is an energetic modality. 

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When a baby is born they come in from the consciousness of love. Their fascia is very fluid. When the baby grows up because the fascia is the first line of defense of catching all the emotional, spiritual, and physical traumas. Holds our energetic well being. Every time a trauma comes up in our lives and we don’t heal it properly, fascia catches all and as we grow up our fascia goes from this fluid like state to a hard like state, cement like state if we don’t release the traumas. This technique is about tapping into our inner physician. Your therapist is the channel to tap and unblock your inner physician so you can start healing. 

So when you release that cement, that energetic block, the inner physician takes over inside you and you start to heal. That is why this work is a lot based on emotional healing. 

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Fascia is interwired by the autonomic nervous system. There’s some studies that say that fascia may be an extension of the autonomic nervous system. So the autonomic nervous system has two parts: sympathetic and parasympathetic. 

Sympathetic (we call it Fear) is a network of nerves that helps your body activate its “fight-or-flight” response. This system's activity increases when you're stressed, in danger or physically active. When you release the fascia you get what we call a sympathetic discharge. The Parasympathetic ( we cal it Love) nervous system is the rest and digestion system, it slows our heart and breathing rates, lowers blood pressure and promotes digestion. Our body enters a state of relaxation, and this relaxation breeds recovery. It relaxes the body after a period of stress or danger. The more time we spend in a PSNS state, the healthier we are. 

So basically when you release the fascia, you get a discharge in the sympathetic system and an uptake of the parasympathetic system. Basically we are leaving fear behind, when we heal, so our original love state can re emerge again, love takes over and you heal.