The Vibrational Fascia Release Technique™ focuses mainly on the soft connective tissue of the body where pain and restriction is a result of collagen fascia fibres and pressurized fluids working together to press against pain receptors, pinch or compress nerve bundles, reduce blood flow, and prevent the lymphatic system from removing fluids from these enclosed interstitial spaces.

A combination of vibration and compression from the tuning fork is used to directly affect the collagen fascia fibres and compressed fluids where the restriction either releases or resolves completely to return a restricted area back to normal function.

Fascia does more than hold your body together and respond to physical strain though – it also responds to stress and emotional experience. When you feel threatened, overwhelmed, or under long-term stress, your body naturally tightens and braces as part of the nervous system’s protective response. Every contraction leaves its imprint in the fascia and it is in this way that you unknowingly store fear, stress and unprocessed grief in the physical body. If these patterns persist, the tissues of your body can remain held in a subtle state of tension. In the book The Body Keeps the Score, psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk describes how emotional stress and trauma can become embedded in physical patterns of tension, breathing, posture, and movement.

The role of fascia in storing your emotional experiences goes far beyond held patterns of tension within the tissues though. Fascia is composed of approximately 70% water and we know from the experiments of Masaru Emoto that water responds to intention, sound, and emotional input by changing its structural patterns. This opens an intriguing perspective on just how deeply your experiences may be recorded within the tissues of your body.

Releasing fascial restrictions can therefore provide more than physical relief. As fascia releases, so does the past. As the long-held tension in the body’s connective tissues softens and movement returns, many people also experience emotional balance, vibrancy, and a sense of relaxation and lightness.