Here's what we mean when we say...

Your body weight on the block creates compression between the hard surface of your bones and the hard surface of the block. 

Holding each position for at least 3 minutes allows the practice to work deeply into your tissues. The combination of time and pressure releases stuck fascia and muscle knots. 

This is dedicated time to get the speed bumps moving. Most manual massage modalities can't replicate the time, pressure or nervous system benefits unwind delivers. 

You power through your work and work outs.

unwind body works is almost zero effort and very much "less is more"

The practice is about allowing our body to release using our breath and focused attention while lying down. No forcing, just finding the tender spots and relaxing into the discomfort. It can hurt and you're always in control of how much pressure you're creating.

Our classes are mostly done face down, using the relaxed weight of your body to create space in your tissues and in your mind. 

Fascia is strong, continuous, system-wide network providing form and function to your entire body. 

According to Johns Hopkins Medicine: "fascia is a thin casing of connective tissue that surrounds and holds every organ, blood vessel, bone, nerve, joint, tendon, and muscle in place." 

When it is unhealthy it gets tight and stuck, impeding our range of motion, causing pain, changing our posture, and impacting the function of everthing it touches. 

A wonky way of saying pre-sleep routine. 

Quality sleep impacts our brain health and all our bodily functions. A good power down promotes better sleep and less time to fall asleep.  It involves less stimulation (light, screens, food, booze, caffeine), time to unwind (see what we did there?), nothing but sleep or sexy time in the bedroom, and only going to bed when feeling sleepy (or sexy... grrr). unwind is a great pre-sleep practice.

Derived from "soma" the Greek word for body, a fancy way of saying body-based. especially as it relates to your perception or experience of the body. 

The state and position of your body strongly informs the state of your nervous system, your mind, and your body chemistry (think: power pose vs slumping over). 

Somatic practices - like unwind - use your body to help make shifts on purpose.

 As a type A intellectual, your body is mostly the taxi to carry your big brain around. You value your thoughts and doing but ignore your body until it yells with inconvenient demands like hunger, anger, illness, or pain.

Recent science and ancient wisdom agree the body has a wealth of information for you to live a successful, happy, healthy life. unwind helps you reconnect to your being, unlocking more of your energy and untapped potential.

Our vagus nerve is the main actor in our parasympathetic nervous system, controlling involuntary functions like our heart rate, digestion, and immune system. 

unwind supports the vagus nerve in several ways, directly and indirectly. The practice is also trauma-informed by what I continue to learn about Polyvagal Theory, signalling the vagus nerve to help create safety in the body. 

Our nervous system sends messages between our brain and our body, down the spinal cord and into nerves. 

 It is most well known for signals delivered to our nervous system under stress (fight, flight, freeze. and fawn) and regulation (social, rest, digest).  

Our nervous system controls our thoughts and our feelings, which vary wildly depending on our state of activation or regulation.

unwind helps our nervous system

Attunement is noticing what's happening to your body under stress. 

Simply put: you can't think your body out of nervous system activation. Attunement is the process of feeling what's going on and using breath or other practices to work with your body. Not ignoring it, or using your mind to try to force it to calm down.

unwind builds attunement and helps you learn the signals your body sends you