Unlock Your SI Joints & Lower Back
Are you struggling with persistent lower back pain or discomfort in your SI joints? This comprehensive self-paced program, *Unlocking Your SI Joints & Lower Back*, is designed to provide you with the tools and techniques to alleviate pain and improve your overall mobility. This program is perfect for individuals seeking to enhance their quality of life through targeted exercises and mindful practices.
HIGHLIGHTS
Step-by-step video tutorials that you can access at your own pace
Effective exercises to strengthen and stabilize the SI joints and lower back for long term results.
Methods for Myofascial release that empower you to take control of your healing journey.
Incorporating Yoga and Fascial Flossing™ for a balanced program that combines release with stability.
What it is:
Experience 7 lessons featuring a variety of techniques designed to alleviate pain, enhance mobility, correct imbalances, and build stability.
It’s recommended to practice one lesson per day and repeat the sequence weekly for lasting results.
One lesson even includes a practice you can seamlessly integrate into your daily office routine.
With videos ranging from 10 to 28 minutes, they’re easy to fit into your schedule. Each day, you’ll notice improvements, gain insight into your imbalances, and discover which practices deserve your continued focus.
Let go of what doesn’t work, continue with what does, and progress at your own pace and rhythm.
Myofascial Release
Myofascial release therapy is a massage technique that focuses on relieving pain in your myofascial tissues. These are the thick connective tissues that support your muscles. Your myofascial tissue is a network of tissue that spreads throughout your entire body. It connects your muscles, joints, and bones. It also provides support to your organs, helping to keep them in place. Tight myofascial tissue can restrict movement in your muscles and joints. As you move differently to make up for the loss in movement, you can cause additional tightness without realizing it. This can lead to widespread pain and discomfort.
Fascial Flossing™
Fascia is actually the body’s scaffolding, a matrix of hydrated semi-crystalline collagen fibers in varying tensile strengths and interweaving patterns that wrap around our organs, bones, tendons, ligaments, brain matter, etc.. Fascia takes on the form of whatever it is wrapping while maintaining separation (for example between organs) and creating continuous connectivity throughout the body. Recent research has shown that all past traumas, both physical and mental, are stored within the fascia causing its natural form to be disrupted and hardened to hold the body in a distressed state. And with repetitive movements and trauma, the density and mass of the fascia can impair movement, circulation, and the flow of lymph throughout the body. So when we feel a knot in any muscle it’s actually a build-up of fluid, toxins, adhesions and scar tissue within the fascia that’s unable to move within the lymphatic system of the body. The More you Move the more hydrated and mobile your tissues are. The less you move, your fascia becomes more dense, hardened and dry.
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FLOSSING AND CONVENTIONAL STRETCHING? ENGAGING WHILE YOU ELONGATE - means you are applying a much greater tensile force to the fascial fibers than a passive stretch does. Dynamically adding resistance while pulling the tissues into an elongation phase means we can impact the fascia at higher intensity than traditional methods.
FLOSSING HAS A BUILT IN SAFETY NET The kind of stretching we do stays out of the joints (where we generally become hyper-mobile), we work with shorter ranges of motion and we work with active effort. We get into the belly of the tissue (think the depths of your hamstring, quads, or traps—imagine them strong and elastic, springy) and we don’t hang out in the end range of motion where micro tearing usually occurs. This avoids the common pitfall of "over-stretching".
WORKOUT AND RECOVERY. Two-in-one. Fascia Flossing™ is not easy. Put effort in and we get results. People feel like they have had a workout and massage in one.
FLOSSING IS THE INVERSE OF ROLLING Rolling utilizes an external force to change the superficial fascia from the outside-in. While Flossing, you are contracting inside your body, and as you elongate while contracting, you change your body from the inside-out, getting down to the structural fascia.
WHO IS THIS PROGRAM FOR?
Unlocking Your SI Joints and Lower Back is for you if:
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You experience chronic or occasional lower back pain.
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Your SI joints feel stiff, locked, or achy.
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You struggle with hip or pelvic imbalances.
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You want to improve your overall mobility and posture.
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You're seeking a holistic approach to release tension and build stability.
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You prefer quick, effective practices that fit into your busy schedule.
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You’re ready to address the root causes of discomfort, not just the symptoms.
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You want tools to support long-term relief and maintain balance.
What You Will Need
For this program, you only need an open space approximately the size of a yoga mat. Having a yoga mat is ideal, but not necessary.
For some routines, you will require wall space to place your feet during certain exercises and to use a ball to release tension in specific areas.
I suggest using racquet balls, which can be easily found in sports stores or online. They have the right density, a texture that prevents slipping, and are cost-effective. They usually come in packs of three, which is convenient since you will need at least two, and they tend to disappear if pets or children get hold of them.
A dense foam roller can also be beneficial. If you have one, that's great! If not, you can improvise by using a can of food wrapped in a towel, such as a soup or bean can rolled up in a hand or kitchen towel.
