Restorative Approaches
Welcome to Integrative Myofascial Release Therapy—a privately owned manual therapy practice (formerly Encinitas Bodyworks) specializing in:
John Barnes Myofascial Release Therapy (JB-MFR)
Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques (MAT)
Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD)
With over 20 years of experience as a Bodywork Therapist and Holistic Health Practitioner, I offer personalized, heart-centered care designed to meet your body exactly where it is. My intention is to help gently unwind patterns of pain and tension, restore your body’s natural ability to heal, and support you in returning to a life of greater ease and vitality.
Each session is thoughtfully tailored to help you move with more freedom, build resilience and strength, and reconnect with the deeper intelligence within your body. Together, we invite your system to shift out of stress and into balance—creating space for healing, renewal, and the most authentic version of you to emerge.
Healing Beyond the Surface
At the heart of my practice is a simple yet profound belief: true healing reaches far beyond the surface. Through gentle, effective Myofascial Release Therapy and integrative mind-body care, I help clients reconnect with their bodies, release chronic pain and tension, and restore a deeper sense of freedom, vitality, and wholeness.
Myofascial Release reaches into the quiet places other modalities often skim past. Instead of simply easing surface tension, we meet the deeper patterns—those shaped by years of stress, injury, emotional holding, and an overwhelmed nervous system. Because of this, the shifts tend to last. They create new space in the body rather than temporarily soothing what hurts.
Restoring Connection Through Safe, Therapeutic Touch
Many people today live with touch deprivation—whether from busy modern life, emotional loss, trauma, illness, or long periods without nurturing human contact. The nervous system can begin to guard, brace, and disconnect, even when the mind longs to feel safe and held.
Myofascial Release offers a respectful, consent-based form of therapeutic touch that helps the body remember how to receive again. Within a calm and supportive environment, your system can slowly soften its defenses, relearn safety, and return to a felt sense of connection—both within yourself and with the world around you.
Healing as a Living Relationship
The body doesn’t unravel in a single session. The nervous system relearns safety through steady, gentle repetition—returning to the breath, mindful awareness, and the small releases that accumulate over time.
Healing is not one moment of transformation; it is a relationship you build with your own body—an unfolding, breath by breath, layer by layer. A garden doesn’t bloom because it was watered once; it blooms because someone returned to it with care, season after season. In the same way, your body learns to open through consistency, patience, and moments of feeling truly met.
Myofascial Release is an invitation rather than a demand. We listen more than we push. We create conditions where your nervous system can soften its guard and remember how to heal. What has been held for years cannot be rushed—but it can be welcomed home.
Every time you choose to show up for yourself, you teach your body that it is safe to change. And from that safety, remarkable things become possible—ease where there was tension, movement where there was restriction, and a quiet return to the truth of who you are.