Love♡Shine♡Play Festival 2024

Did you know that our achilles tendon is more like that tendon on a gazelle than anything else?
What? Yep. When it’s working well, you can jump REALLY far and high because of that thick strip of powerful fascia. Fascia comes in many forms throughout the body and needs certain kinds of attention to allow for the greatest mobility, stability, and ease in your body.

In this workshop, anatomy and pain expert, Cat Matlock of FreeBody, will teach you a little bit about fascia and how to keep it from getting bound and sticky in your body. We’ll use soft balls for rolling and hydrating the fascia in the lower body and buttocks, then go through a series of simple but profound yoga asana flows to keep your fascia nourished. Come play in your fascial bodysuit! Let’s free up the feet, calves, hamstrings, and hips!

Got some chronic neck tension? Shoulder pain or dysfunction? Maybe some radiating numbness or tingling down the arms into the hands? Rotator cuff issue? Well let’s fix it! In this workshop you will learn about the muscles that Cat calls “The Big 3” and why they MUST be released before attending any other parts of the neck and shoulders.

After a short anatomy presentation, we’ll do some therapeutic rolling with Cat’s signature Self Trigger Point Release to soften the fascia and release tension in muscles that cause neck and shoulder pain. (Neck pain almost never comes from neck muscles!) You’ll gain the skills needed to liberate this area of the body. You’ll leave with greater pain free mobility and the confidence to continue this work yourself. Balls provided and available for purchase, or bring your own! Videos to follow after the workshop will be available for free to all participants.