Exploring Fascia Release
The Power of Fascia Release within Pilates
What is Fascia?
Fascia is a three dimensional web of connective tissue that surrounds your muscles, organs, and bones. It serves as a structural support system, holding everything together in your body. This often-overlooked tissue plays a critical role in maintaining your body's function.
Why is Fascia important?
Yes, fascia is crucial to the functioning of the body. It provides a framework that helps support and protect individual muscle groups, organs, and the entire body as a unit. It helps us move freely, gives us postural awareness, prevents injury, supports our balance and influences our range of movement.
Similarly to our muscles, fascia can become tight, restricted or develop adhesions leading to discomfort, stiffness, reduced mobility and pain. Tightness in your fascia can be caused by overuse, underuse and misuse of your body, poor posture, old injuries, emotional trauma and stress.
What is Fascia Release?
It’s a self-massage technique to target and release any tightness or problematic areas within the fascia, eliminating pain and tension, and allowing you to move better and stand taller. By using fascia release balls, you can effectively target tight spots in the body, releasing tension, improving flexibility and strengthening tissues.
The benefits of Fascia Release
Incorporating Fascia Release into your Pilates practice will help:
- Decrease muscle & joint pain
- Increase circulation
- Improve mobility
- Improve balance
- Release tension
- Strengthen the body
- Prevent injury
- Improve general sense of well-being
- Improve posture
