Myofascial Release Physical Therapy

07/25/2026

“I let go.” This was a “go to” statement that John often used and I initially thought this was too simple. The mind seems to only believe something if it’s complex because somehow complexity means it’s better. It took a deep dive into my own healing to discover the context of why simplicity leaves more room for the deep complexity of the intuitive body to do what it needs to do. As soon as the mind needs to narrate the process, everything slows to the speed of language. It’s like learning to surf with a book in your hand trying to find the chapter on balance.

“I let go” also allows room for love to do its work. One example is the struggle many of us have with feeling worthy. You may have found that giving yourself the mantra of “I am worthy” doesn’t exactly free one from the belief or open the door to freedom. If it did, great, keep doing that. Energetically I found myself trapped in the worry of losing worthiness if I did something to disqualify myself. I went from being down below to high on the pedestal of worthiness, trying not to fall off.

Love isn’t concerned with whether or not you are worthy, it just loves. There is nothing to prove or qualify for. It’s like the sun. It shines on everyone no matter your credentials. The only block is one’s willingness to receive love, because like myofascial release, it never forces. I find saying, “I let go” is a way to open the door to receive love, not because of the concept, but the feeling of openness I feel in my body and energetic field when I say those words.

So many things that John taught through the years continues to come back to me in new ways. I have felt so much shift within myself since John’s passing. It has brought a new quiet confidence that John modeled is his presence when he was treating and teaching. The deeper I go into my own healing and evolution by allowing awareness to express itself through me, the more I realize who we are is so powerful when we are free of our stories and our projections. It is what is released when we “let go.”

Richard Harty, PT

MFR I, II, III, Fascial Pelvis, Fascial Cranium, Cervical Thoracic, Quantum Leap, Rebounding, Unwinding, Advanced Unwinding, Subtle Energy, Myofascial Mobilization, Skill Enhancement, Instructor, and Therapy for the Therapist.

Producer of Fireside Chat and MFR I DVD course.

Author of the book titled The Music of Consciousness and The Art of Myofascial Release.

07/12/2026

Vimeo is shutting down their pay for view program, so I am having to transfer all the instructional material I produced to Patreon, These videos are unique approaches to Myofascial techniques to address specific problems without abandoning the intuitional approach the John Barnes Myofascial release emphasizes. These are real treatments with before and after results. You can see the power of engaging the barrier, not forcing, and holding for at least 5 minutes to get permanent changes. I also emphasize going off script to follow your intuition and create your own techniques as you progress through the treatment. These also give you language to help your clients that need more scientific explanations to help them see the value of simply letting go and softening into the vast intelligence in the body. I hope to offer more instruction in the energetic barriers and how to sense and work with that layer of Myofascial release on this channel in the future as soon as I flesh out a way to demonstrate and provide a context or doorway into this mystical area of treatment.

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02/18/2026

It’s been over a week since I have returned from Bali. I am still integrating the many profound experiences I had in the last month. Staying in solitude with myself has been a natural flow and I believe it has served to allow me to slowly integrate the new forms of flow that are moving through my consciousness. I have been slowly re-connecting with friends beginning this week.

I have noticed a more confident flow in my treatment sessions with less desire to operate in the “need to accomplish something” and a comfort with taking my time. This is another example of the basic myofascial principles of the long hold and not forcing manifesting as no need to rush.

I have noticed that I can often get trapped in the description of a healing process and instead of doing it, I can move to the next description as if describing something would manifest it. I am having a new relationship with John’s insistence to engage without talking as much as possible. There is certainly a place for descriptions within integration, but you have to have the experience first, which is far beyond any description.

Putting this into practice has presented itself in ways new to me in my sessions since I have been back. I have had the realization that our story, which is often a projection, can help us connect with the emotion. Once there is connection with the emotion, I have encouraged my clients to let go of the story and follow the sensation. And in the cases of sadness, pain, grief, anger, and other perceived “difficult” emotions I have directed my clients to remove the label and experience them as different energies or “flavors.”

Even “positive” emotions can be experienced this way, because labeling something as positive automatically creates its shadow and a desire to hold on to the positive state instead of staying in the flow of what is, which is what happens when we really “let go.” This direct experience without naming further removes any subtle judgements implied by the labels and allows the pure experience to guide. This demonstrates that we can have “pain” but suffering is optional.

While I was in Bali, I really felt an embodiment of John’s words and teachings in so many of my experiences. I had real sense of his blessing. It has given me a new confidence in how I show up, not only as a therapist, but as a human being.

02/05/2026

My time in Bali is coming to an end. The theme of my journey has been about finding my way home. I have come to realize it’s not a place I have been seeking, but a feeling of being home - home with who I am and my place in the universe. For most of my life I have felt adrift trying to find an external guide to find my connection. Much of my experience here has been deeply internal with a growing awareness that I’m not going to find home even in the best of external relationships or places.

I’ve come to realize that my expectations of external validation, has been a source of painful disappointment. Everything external has a life cycle of birth and death and when I identify with these things, I lose the connection with myself. This has been illustrated in the last couple months with the passing John just before I came to Bali.

Yesterday I was notified of the death of a third client while I have been gone. This landed particularly deep because he was the first client I had in my new orientation with myofascial release as an independent therapist about 30 years ago. He has been a constant with me as we explored a quality of life for him that kept him fully active and virtually pain free until the last month. His faith in me and willingness to show up year after year has touched me in ways I can’t describe.

The Sapience retreat I experienced this time was deeply uncomfortable with moments of beautiful presence, and yet the unease continued to force me into connection with myself over and over. The energy on this island with the 3 volcanoes and the density of life didn’t allow me to numb out, but continually invited me to connect.

As I prepare to return, I am feeling melancholy, which is a feeling of loss with no particular direction. I sense that part of me died here. I’m in the space between a death of my old self, and waiting to see what is birthed in me as I re-engage with my life back in the US.

I had many beautiful connections with people here as I shared myofascial release sessions and taught the principles. I let those moments flow naturally and, for the most part, allowed myself to connect in ways that didn’t involve me playing the role of therapist.

I write this with 2 more days left before I come back. I can feel the call to return and am so pleased that I took this time for myself.

Richard

01/18/2026

If you would like my music Wild Intuition I used for my tribute to John it is available for streaming on Spotify and Apple Music for meditation and treatment playlists. The link for Apple Music is in the comments. https://open.spotify.com/album/2leFKd1LmslCImDqtZF9s1?si=bXeB6ZnLRSGiqwJYHgQ4LQ

Richard Harty · single · 2026 · 1 songs

11/24/2025

My latest song just went live on Spotify. You can add it to your treatment playlist. https://open.spotify.com/album/29E4qpnkEkqCNG5Npg6ZCe?si=bNEL7K-cRNaPdRRZ5PI9fw

Richard Harty · single · 2025 · 1 songs

07/04/2025

Shine Yoga studio in Lincoln Center in Stockton has put up my Music of Consciousness experience on July 27 at 3:00 pm on their website. You can now reserve your place at the website if you don't want to use the app. Click on the link and scroll down until you see my event.

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02/17/2025

One of the barriers that took me some time to move through was performance anxiety. What if the patient doesn’t get better? What if I do something wrong? There are all kinds of rationalizations the mind can come up with that can point out the futility of trying to control outcomes, and this can help to a point. The problem is the operant conditioning that dwells in the body. Just like Pavlov’s dogs salivated when the bell was rung, my body reacts when something mirrors shaming events from my past.

I have experienced this acutely in seminars and I have had to will myself to stay and not run. There were times I didn’t believe I could be free of my panic. I didn’t realize the wisdom of my panic and that it was the pathway to healing. I needed someone to hold space and give me permission for my body to go deeper into my fear. I have had many chances since with therapists willing to hold space (without “efforting”) and inviting me to go deeper into what my body was holding. It also has helped me develop a part me that can hold myself.

When I feel a therapist “efforting,” it inhibits my ability to open. I can feel the investment in a particular outcome. Even “efforting” comes from a desire to be of service, but it is an energetic forcing of the barrier and is exhausting for the therapist. The theme of being in the flow has been such an awareness for me in the last couple of years. There is plenty of support in the flow and it is accessed through softening and surrendering the chatter of the mind. The more I do myofascial release the more I am able to feel the flow of the field and its ability to connect me to my client with love and through its connection with the quantum field of consciousness, a wealth of information and knowledge to guide me in the moment.

One of the things that can keep me trapped in my fear is the belief that I am my mind. When I let go of the chatter of the mind and the energetic striving, I can become aware that my mind is simply a part of me. This letting go requires me to slow down and move into a long hold that allows what feels like an energetic opening. I then find myself in the moment and swimming in the energetic and emotional field of love and connection.

Richard Harty, PT


Producer of Fireside Chat and MFR I DVD course.


Author of the book titled The Music of Consciousness and The Art of Myofascial Release.

11/29/2024

I want to remind everyone that along with my book "The Music of Consciousness and The Art of Myofascial Release" at the BookBaby Bookstore I also offer an extensive video library of my custom approaches and insights into how to create your own techniques as needed. The complexity of the fascial system requires one to deep dive into the art of this work. You can find these videos by subscription at

These are instructional videos on myofascial release to enhance your skills as a therapist. I have over 40 years experience as a therapist and have a practice that…

08/06/2023

I want to let everyone know that my book, "The Music of Consciousness and The Art of Myofascial Release is being really well received and it is accomplishing my goals for its message. I am definitely more left brained in my navigation of things and I have learned to rely more and more on intuition for the moment by moment guidance in treatment and in my life. Part of the message in my book is my journey from a deductive emphasis to experiencing life as an art.

In this age of scientific reason and its emphasis on deductive explanations based on a certain interpretation of the facts, the human factor can often be lost. When I went through physical therapy training, I understood that my oath was to my patient and their well-being. So, when evaluating the val...