24/09/2026
I remember the first time the lights went on for me.
It was Miami, January 2015. I was a recently licensed massage therapist sitting in my first Barnes Myofascial Release seminar. I had made the decision 12 months prior that I would take a new direction in life. I would quit my career in international marketing and fulfil my need to do something authentic, meaningful, and in service of others.
Flash forward to that seminar series. I had never received any myofascial release treatment before, I had only gotten a brochure in my door a few months prior announcing the seminar series in January. But I was instantly drawn to the work. As I sat in that darkened hotel ballroom and listened to John speak, I knew I had found what it was I was supposed to do with my life.
I was attending 3 seminars together over 10 days and each evening I would drive north back home to Vero Beach and cry with relief and awe at the amount of pure love that I was feeling. My soul said “finally!” this is what you’ve been searching for, this is love, this is true.
Many years later as I became a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, I had the great fortune to be taught by Raja Selvam, in my final training. Once again, I experienced a highly educated and respected teacher, someone who holds multiple PHD’s, teaching love, in addition to nervous system techniques to work with trauma.
I often get intuitions, or knowings, that just pop into my awareness. I recall last year, on the train, on the way home to Gothenburg from Stockholm, getting such an awareness. It was very simple:
Teach Love.
That’s the real reason I developed the NeuroFascia Approach®. Because I experience first hand every day what it is like to work with love. To help people find their joy, to ease their pain, unresolved tension, anxiety, past traumas and to do so while taking into account the NeuroFascial complex within our bodies.
So, of course you’ll learn about the physiology of trauma, and the hand placements to release the fascia on the anterior aspect of the cervical spine, how to balance the pelvis, nervous system language and why catharsis isn’t sustainable, and why our patterns of protection are in place and how to work with them. I also developed the NeuroFascia Approach® becase I and my clients, know first-hand the power and effectiveness of working with both the fascial continuum and the nervous system.
But more than all of that you, will feel non-judgement, you will see how the patterns – anxiety, tension, tightness, even pain - we have in place are actually really beautiful because they are simply trying to keep us alive and that is the most loving thing imaginable.
Nervous System Foundations is a course designed to give you tools, understanding, language and skills you can implement right away AND I guarantee you will also be deeply moved, you will develop new compassion for yourself and others and new appreciation for the magnificence that is us humans.
Sept 29/30 OR Oct 6/7 – live, online – not recorded.
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See you in class,
Deirdre
