Vreni Gurd - Movement for Living c/o Personal Best

The goal in the treatment sessions is to assist your body in balancing the three-dimensional fascial web such that you can stand, sit, and move with ease. The ultimate goal is for you to forget you have a body - to bring you to a place where you can participate in all the activities you want, and you are not worried that your back, knees or any other body part will regret it later.

If you were to squeeze a partially inflated balloon, the shape of the entire balloon changes. If you were to squeeze it in two or three places, the balloon would change shape dramatically, depending on where you squeeze.  Our body is made up of a series of nested balloons, that sit adjacent to each other. Adhesions between them squeeze our body-balloon.

Furthermore, the blood vessels and nerves are strings that run throughout the body, from the head to the fingertips and the toes, and they form two separate, yet interrelated, whole-body trees within our body balloon. If there is a boulder compressing the root of the tree in the foot, it will alter the shape of the entire body-tree and body-balloon, because the strings of the body-tree are pulled inferiorly towards the foot, just like a tent would be distorted towards a tighter guy line.

When our body-web is distorted, parts of the web become restricted, which may compress or alter joint axis of rotation, perhaps causing pain and reduced range of motion.