@@ElishaCeleste Thanks so much Elisha. I'm doing this combination most every day! Also, I'm way overdue on wishing you and Stefan best in your move to Austin. I hope the community there is widely receptive to your work. Durango is missing something big! 💗
I had been searching for weeks if not months for something that would help my heel pain/ achilles strains after returning from injuries sustained at work and trying to regain fitness. Nothing was working til I found your videos. Intense pain in all my fascia in my legs. Some much more intense than others! but only after a few days of working with the roller/ball/rolling pin etc etc its proving very effective!. Thank you so much.....nothing else has worked.
Awesome thanks I got a foam roller but decided to use a basket ball 🏀 to do what your showing it feels good. So anyone without foam roller you have another option too.
I knew when I started feeling some crunchy sciatic pain to search Elisha's wonderful content and this did not disappoint! Found lots to work on. These techniques are wonderful and I use them on other muscle/fascial groups often
relax my leg while it's screaming in pain...now that's a challenge! This one has really helped me. Like Emmit Duff, I've been lazy and not foam rolled for a long time. I do believe this one went straight to the cause of all of my recent hip, leg and ankle pain. Thank you Elisha. And best wishes on your move to Texas!
This is crazy intense! I noticed an increase in intensity when I relaxed my leg! I found bad hard stuff around my knee. Will be doing this everyday for sure. Thanks.
YES - when you relax, it tends to get more intense. But it's a truer marker of what's in there, and if you can stay relaxed it'll get healthier much faster than if you're bracing against this technique.
I've been doing this regularly for about 2 weeks now along with some adductor release from another of your videos and I'm really seeing good results. Thank you for a very informative and easy to follow video!
I have been trying stuff like this on my own, so this is perfect, since I wanted to make sure I was doing the most ergonomic version (and not stressing my other joints too much.)
No question, this is your best video yet! The clunks are satisfying, aren't they? Before I found your channel and website, I thought the weird popping sensation (clunks) were bad and I'd stop rolling on them. Now I look for them and do a little giggle (or would if my IT band/quads weren't so painful).
Hi - yes, I do. I am currently in the process of redesigning my website, so I can't send you there. If you email info@elishaceleste.com, I can get you more information about how to work with me, and a scheduling link if you decide to move forward.
I think it is worse if it is just tight and not clunking at all though. At least with the clunks you feel like you are making progress pretty well (and getting something done finally.)
Just watch a couple of your videos yesterday. Wow what a relief so far! If got most the pain you speech of. Thank you. Been in pain seen fire college and can’t seem to get rid of it for good. I’m going to keep look through your videos. On another note, what kind of foam roller to you recommend and or other equipment for best results?
That roller she is using supports a really nice indie craftsman type company. I will see if I can find the link, since I want to order one also. She also recommnended the lacrosse balls for a long time, not sure if she still does, but I do use mine a lot. A lot of times it is great to improvise with what is at home, since as one progresses, they need harder rollers etc, but you might find results with something softer (like maybe a filled gallon water container at first etc.)
This was great, thank you! I've heard that foam rolling is just crushing muscle and not necessarily gliding or moving or smoothing the fascia. How can we tell if we're doing this the right way and releasing the tightness of fascia?
I have thought the same, for my entire journey through severe disability and the long road to recovery. I've never found any forceful or painful treatment to be actually helpful. Until this. The voluntary fascia release technique seems to be something totally different. I believe the primary thing is that we find the spot, then use voluntary local movement as the action, rather than just rolling up and down on a static spot, using muscles to move that are far away from the roller/ball point. The way to tell I think is if you feel any better over the following few days.
Yes this is a shearing motion, pinning the muscle to bone or progressively to each successively deeper layer, then calling for movement that allows the layers of fascia to slide past one another!
I need serious help with my fascia. It must be that since I know I have arthritis and degenerative discs but why oh why is my hip knee and other areas so painful and tight. Bingo a light went off while watching these videos. It has to be my fascia. I’m looking for a myofascial massage therapist near me
Thanks so much for all your videos! They’ve been really helpful! Can I work around an inter muscular lipoma using this technique? It’s right in the front of my thigh. I’ve had sciatica/disc issues for the last seven months and I’ve been wondering if adhesions around a lipoma could be to blame.
For (hopefully) obvious reasons, I can't give medical advice. So please use your own best judgment about working around the lipoma. For what it's worth, I have a lipoma on my back, and have never had an issue doing fascia release around it.
@@ElishaCeleste Yes I did. Intense for sure. Lots of clunks ! I’m using a softer form roller do you recommend I go with one that’s more firm? Or even very stiff
@@cynthiacramer5879 - I definitely recommend against soft rollers for my version of fascia release (just because it's extremely difficult to compress fascia with something that's too soft). AND, I recommend avoiding the knobby/grooved or super hard rollers like PVC pipes. I LOVE the roller I use, but it's handmade and therefore more expensive than people are used to (most roam rollers are made of plastic and thus very cheap). Mine is called Om Roller (formerly Lana Roller), and it is made of a hollow mango wood core on the inside, covered in non-toxic latex with a hand woven cotton cover. Here's a link in case you want to get the one I'm using in this video or one like it: omroller.com/?ref=11 (full disclosure, I do receive a small referral commission if you decide to purchase from this link)
@@ElishaCeleste thanks for the info :-) i’ll look into using a different roller. maybe it’s because I’m tall and large that I am able to compress well on my soft foam roller.?
@@cynthiacramer5879 - if the soft roller is all you've been used to, it could just be nothing to compare it to? Depending on how soft the roller is, you could get SOME compression, but not as much as with something a little more dense. The reason I love the Om Roller is because it does have some give (like human soft tissue wrapped around bone, aka someone working on your body), but it's not as soft as the soft rollers.
It's really individual. There should be a link in the description box here for my "Beginner's Guide to Fascia Release." It answers the basic questions when you're just starting out. The primary rule is don't get sore, and you can do as much as you want. If you do get sore it's not the end of the world, but it usually indicates the body was fighting back so maybe back off the intensity.
In terms of the shadow banend thing. It's been 2y now so things may have changed in terms of our understanding. I don't think a channel like this would necessarily be shadow banned. You're not saying anything that's harmful to "the system". Probably it's just bugs in YouTub's algo. But I don't know.
I am in optimization though still do have some inner heel pain. Anyway I have been doing your techniques for a year maybe 2, and want to say that I feel I understand them l so well that I already figured this one out and have been doing it!! I just 'listened' to my body what was still tight and this area was speaking out it needed release. Would you say this is similar to the technique in your video where you do have someone step on you?? Sorry don't remember which one, but you lay down and they step on your thigh, getting that it band and quad area, also super intense!!!
Awesome! LOVE this! I'm always so happy when I hear that people are improvising and listening to their own body and making all of this YOUR OWN. And YES, this is like that Kinetix video. However, Kinetix is far more effective at actually "shearing" the adhesions, since there's a big difference between compressing tissue from above (like a foot stepping on the IT Band), vs pressing the IT Band into the foam roller (which tends to SQUISH the adhesion and not allow for much shearing).
@@ElishaCeleste yay! I just did it again and will say i was willing to go a little deeper, knowing it's a solid 'elicia recommendation!' especially with the IT band being that tricky area. Yes, definitely works best RELAXED and SLOW! I picked that up from the Kinetix video, that just tightening then relaxing the compressed area can help, in addition to rotating your limb, etc.
Well, for one thing I interviewed one of the most banned people in 2020 (Dr Andrew Kaufman). But aside from that, natural health blogs and RUclips channels are routinely being shadow banned or completely censored by Google (which owns RUclips).
@@ElishaCeleste well, now I'm really curious about that interview! I don't think google should be banning natural health blogs. I am assuming they are trying to avoid the spread of misinformation, and that this is even more important right now, but they need to screen the actual material if that is the goal, not just ban everyone. 😡
@@briannerebecca944 - that is the supposed goal, however my personal opinion is that "misinformation" is highly subjective and dependent on personal beliefs. We should all be allowed to explore a diversity of opinions, thoughts, theories etc and then make our own minds up. The interview with Dr. Kaufman is still on my channel, primarily because I didn't ask him the typical questions that got him banned. It was more personal.
It’s not just your passion, but you are giving us real information…
This combination of fascia release is the answer to my prayers Elisha! Thanks so much for sharing your genius with us!
Hi Sally! Yay, glad to hear this 💛
@@ElishaCeleste Thanks so much Elisha. I'm doing this combination most every day!
Also, I'm way overdue on wishing you and Stefan best in your move to Austin. I hope the community there is widely receptive to your work. Durango is missing something big! 💗
pain,pain and more pain, however I feel so good afterwards, thank you.
Thank you so much for your gilts and knowledge for sharing with all of us. I truly appreciate u. Peace
Ab strengthening plus fascial release! Yay! Thanks for all you do Elisha! ❤️
Ha, yep this one is a two-for!
Can you let me know when your solving pelvic floor instability workshop is open again?
I had been searching for weeks if not months for something that would help my heel pain/ achilles strains after returning from injuries sustained at work and trying to regain fitness. Nothing was working til I found your videos. Intense pain in all my fascia in my legs. Some much more intense than others! but only after a few days of working with the roller/ball/rolling pin etc etc its proving very effective!. Thank you so much.....nothing else has worked.
You're welcome, I'm happy to hear of your results!
Good suggestions will try it out today
Merci from Belgium
Awesome thanks I got a foam roller but decided to use a basket ball 🏀 to do what your showing it feels good.
So anyone without foam roller you have another option too.
Oh my gosh!! I’m a ballet dancer and I am super mega mega tight in this area! Thank you 🎉
Thanks Elisha. Good luck with your move.
Thank you Michael!
Thanks Elisha. Hope you find happiness in your new home 😊
Thank you Wendy!
Very good- will try it! & post comments
Love your channel! Keep it up!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🫶🏼
Thanks again Alisha.. i really like your style
I knew when I started feeling some crunchy sciatic pain to search Elisha's wonderful content and this did not disappoint! Found lots to work on. These techniques are wonderful and I use them on other muscle/fascial groups often
Glad to hear you found this helpful! It's a very powerful technique 🙌
Thanks for your fantastic videos as always to help your community!!
Thank you Debbie, I appreciate you being here!
Thank you so much for the content and knowledge. It has helped me so much.
relax my leg while it's screaming in pain...now that's a challenge! This one has really helped me. Like Emmit Duff, I've been lazy and not foam rolled for a long time. I do believe this one went straight to the cause of all of my recent hip, leg and ankle pain. Thank you Elisha. And best wishes on your move to Texas!
Hi Elisha oo ouch ou ouch, but it's good. great video Elisha many thanks!!
ha, yes indeed! You're so welcome!
Thank you! I always trust your content.
This is crazy intense! I noticed an increase in intensity when I relaxed my leg! I found bad hard stuff around my knee. Will be doing this everyday for sure. Thanks.
YES - when you relax, it tends to get more intense. But it's a truer marker of what's in there, and if you can stay relaxed it'll get healthier much faster than if you're bracing against this technique.
Brilliant 👍
Glad you like it 😊
Awesome video! Very helpful! Thank you!!!
I've been doing this regularly for about 2 weeks now along with some adductor release from another of your videos and I'm really seeing good results. Thank you for a very informative and easy to follow video!
Yay! Glad to hear 😊
Just found you and this is amazing! ❤ Question: what is the best way to progress? It's soooo painful albeit good pain but still lol 😅whew
I have been trying stuff like this on my own, so this is perfect, since I wanted to make sure I was doing the most ergonomic version (and not stressing my other joints too much.)
Wow - this is amazing - so painful - in a good way.
Right!? Glad you like it!
Great video, as always
Thanks Geoffrey!
Thank you 😍
💛
Great video .. thank you Elisha.. 👍
Glad you liked it Lily!
Thank you for this, helped me a lot xx
Glad to hear!
No question, this is your best video yet! The clunks are satisfying, aren't they? Before I found your channel and website, I thought the weird popping sensation (clunks) were bad and I'd stop rolling on them. Now I look for them and do a little giggle (or would if my IT band/quads weren't so painful).
Thank you Beth, glad to hear this! And YES, the clunks are satisfying 😊 (they aren't to everyone, but they are to me! And you, apparently - yay!)
Is your pelvic floor instability workshop open?
Hi Elisha, do you do private consults/ sessions? thanks
Hi - yes, I do. I am currently in the process of redesigning my website, so I can't send you there. If you email info@elishaceleste.com, I can get you more information about how to work with me, and a scheduling link if you decide to move forward.
You and Robert Gardner will both be in Austin???
Two of my favorite body work people!!!
I am not aware of who Robert is, I'll have to look him up.
Do we treat the side that there is an inhibited muscle if the other side is more tight?
Oh man...I klunk a lot...lol I thought I wasn't supposed to 🤦♀️😂 Thank you so much!!!
Ha, everyone clunks! Even healthy fascia clunks a little, but when it's healthy it won't HURT to be compressed.
@@ElishaCeleste Omg! It's excruciating...I literally flop sweat..I'm going slow and taking breaks. Thanks again ♥️🤗
I think it is worse if it is just tight and not clunking at all though. At least with the clunks you feel like you are making progress pretty well (and getting something done finally.)
@@KKIcons WOW.. never thought of that..I guess I should be grateful 🤔☺️
Just watch a couple of your videos yesterday. Wow what a relief so far! If got most the pain you speech of. Thank you. Been in pain seen fire college and can’t seem to get rid of it for good. I’m going to keep look through your videos. On another note, what kind of foam roller to you recommend and or other equipment for best results?
That roller she is using supports a really nice indie craftsman type company. I will see if I can find the link, since I want to order one also. She also recommnended the lacrosse balls for a long time, not sure if she still does, but I do use mine a lot. A lot of times it is great to improvise with what is at home, since as one progresses, they need harder rollers etc, but you might find results with something softer (like maybe a filled gallon water container at first etc.)
@@KKIcons thank you
This was great, thank you! I've heard that foam rolling is just crushing muscle and not necessarily gliding or moving or smoothing the fascia. How can we tell if we're doing this the right way and releasing the tightness of fascia?
I have thought the same, for my entire journey through severe disability and the long road to recovery. I've never found any forceful or painful treatment to be actually helpful.
Until this.
The voluntary fascia release technique seems to be something totally different. I believe the primary thing is that we find the spot, then use voluntary local movement as the action, rather than just rolling up and down on a static spot, using muscles to move that are far away from the roller/ball point.
The way to tell I think is if you feel any better over the following few days.
Yes this is a shearing motion, pinning the muscle to bone or progressively to each successively deeper layer, then calling for movement that allows the layers of fascia to slide past one another!
I need serious help with my fascia. It must be that since I know I have arthritis and degenerative discs but why oh why is my hip knee and other areas so painful and tight. Bingo a light went off while watching these videos. It has to be my fascia. I’m looking for a myofascial massage therapist near me
My ITs are so painful. It takes some courage and acceptance to allow the pain and the movement. It's interesting.
Thanks so much for all your videos! They’ve been really helpful! Can I work around an inter muscular lipoma using this technique? It’s right in the front of my thigh. I’ve had sciatica/disc issues for the last seven months and I’ve been wondering if adhesions around a lipoma could be to blame.
For (hopefully) obvious reasons, I can't give medical advice. So please use your own best judgment about working around the lipoma. For what it's worth, I have a lipoma on my back, and have never had an issue doing fascia release around it.
Of course! Thanks for the response!
Well this looks like something that would benefit me greatly! I’m going to do it soon though it does look painful
Did you try it? It's definitely intense...but so worth it!
@@ElishaCeleste Yes I did. Intense for sure. Lots of clunks ! I’m using a softer form roller do you recommend I go with one that’s more firm? Or even very stiff
@@cynthiacramer5879 - I definitely recommend against soft rollers for my version of fascia release (just because it's extremely difficult to compress fascia with something that's too soft). AND, I recommend avoiding the knobby/grooved or super hard rollers like PVC pipes. I LOVE the roller I use, but it's handmade and therefore more expensive than people are used to (most roam rollers are made of plastic and thus very cheap). Mine is called Om Roller (formerly Lana Roller), and it is made of a hollow mango wood core on the inside, covered in non-toxic latex with a hand woven cotton cover. Here's a link in case you want to get the one I'm using in this video or one like it: omroller.com/?ref=11 (full disclosure, I do receive a small referral commission if you decide to purchase from this link)
@@ElishaCeleste thanks for the info :-) i’ll look into using a different roller. maybe it’s because I’m tall and large that I am able to compress well on my soft foam roller.?
@@cynthiacramer5879 - if the soft roller is all you've been used to, it could just be nothing to compare it to? Depending on how soft the roller is, you could get SOME compression, but not as much as with something a little more dense. The reason I love the Om Roller is because it does have some give (like human soft tissue wrapped around bone, aka someone working on your body), but it's not as soft as the soft rollers.
Thank you!! Hurts, but so good after!
Right? I'm glad you tried it and felt good after!
I’m just starting out on this self myofascial release. How long is it safe for me to spend doing this per day? I have a lot of work to do!
It's really individual. There should be a link in the description box here for my "Beginner's Guide to Fascia Release." It answers the basic questions when you're just starting out. The primary rule is don't get sore, and you can do as much as you want. If you do get sore it's not the end of the world, but it usually indicates the body was fighting back so maybe back off the intensity.
In terms of the shadow banend thing. It's been 2y now so things may have changed in terms of our understanding. I don't think a channel like this would necessarily be shadow banned. You're not saying anything that's harmful to "the system". Probably it's just bugs in YouTub's algo. But I don't know.
I always thought the mounting was muscle!
I am in optimization though still do have some inner heel pain. Anyway I have been doing your techniques for a year maybe 2, and want to say that I feel I understand them l so well that I already figured this one out and have been doing it!! I just 'listened' to my body what was still tight and this area was speaking out it needed release. Would you say this is similar to the technique in your video where you do have someone step on you?? Sorry don't remember which one, but you lay down and they step on your thigh, getting that it band and quad area, also super intense!!!
Awesome! LOVE this! I'm always so happy when I hear that people are improvising and listening to their own body and making all of this YOUR OWN. And YES, this is like that Kinetix video. However, Kinetix is far more effective at actually "shearing" the adhesions, since there's a big difference between compressing tissue from above (like a foot stepping on the IT Band), vs pressing the IT Band into the foam roller (which tends to SQUISH the adhesion and not allow for much shearing).
@@ElishaCeleste yay! I just did it again and will say i was willing to go a little deeper, knowing it's a solid 'elicia recommendation!' especially with the IT band being that tricky area. Yes, definitely works best RELAXED and SLOW! I picked that up from the Kinetix video, that just tightening then relaxing the compressed area can help, in addition to rotating your limb, etc.
It hurts, but I like it haha
Haha, I get it!
Oooowwww!
Yeah - this one isn't for the faint of heart! If you feel really sore after, I'd recommend starting with one of my other quad videos.
Why would RUclips shadow ban you?
Well, for one thing I interviewed one of the most banned people in 2020 (Dr Andrew Kaufman). But aside from that, natural health blogs and RUclips channels are routinely being shadow banned or completely censored by Google (which owns RUclips).
@@ElishaCeleste well, now I'm really curious about that interview! I don't think google should be banning natural health blogs. I am assuming they are trying to avoid the spread of misinformation, and that this is even more important right now, but they need to screen the actual material if that is the goal, not just ban everyone. 😡
@@briannerebecca944 - that is the supposed goal, however my personal opinion is that "misinformation" is highly subjective and dependent on personal beliefs. We should all be allowed to explore a diversity of opinions, thoughts, theories etc and then make our own minds up. The interview with Dr. Kaufman is still on my channel, primarily because I didn't ask him the typical questions that got him banned. It was more personal.
@@ElishaCeleste I completely agree!
pain pain pain.....Oooooooooo