I am aiming to keep this entertaining and concise – wish me luck!
(I just finished the fascia part… it might be too much information… write down your questions as you go 🙏🏼)
- Intro
- Spring including the Westerly winds
- Fascia – the idea of hydrated fascia
- Holistic applications and nerve supply
- Dates….. Please make note of these dates
- Retreat and Sound Healing Dates
…. And hopefully no spelling mistakes – you let me know how I go! I can still make changes if you find any mistakes🙏🏾
As we welcome Spring and all the fluctuations of cold, warmth and all the varieties that Spring brings, we get back to basics to ensure that we continue to improve our overall wellbeing.
Let’s keep it simple and heartfelt to deal with Westerly winds:
- Enjoy the release with some antioxidants with in season berries… no chemical produce would be ideal.
- Vitamin C and antioxidant herbal teas.
- Stay hydrated with quality filtered water
- Prioritise that restorative sleep you all deserve. If you have a bad night… remember your breathwork, your emotional health and to do things that help you feel inspired!
- Move your body in ways that we cover in our sessions
- Be mindful of your thought patterns and where they take you with stress or feeling good.
Fascia – The basics
If you have not already… make a cup of your favourite tea – take a relaxing breath and enjoy this information – it is alot!…. You have plenty of time to process 💞
Fascia is a continuous web of connective tissue that surrounds, separates, and connects every muscle, bone, organ, nerve, blood vessel, and structure in the body.
I like to think of Fascia as an effective goo that moves as we need it to move easily and gracefully….
Fascia is made primarily of collagen and elastin fibers suspended in a gel-like substance rich in water and hyaluronic acid.
Healthy fascia is pliable and nearly frictionless, allowing tissues to glide, absorb shock, transmit force efficiently, and maintain posture and shape.
Hydrated vs. Dehydrated Fascia
An Analogy for you….
Think of healthy, hydrated fascia like a soft, fully soaked sponge.
The healthy sponge can readily absorb nutrients, oxygen, and supportive fluids from the blood supply and surrounding tissues.
With each natural “squeeze and release” from movement or breath, it easily expels metabolic waste, inflammatory byproducts, and excess fluid into the lymphatic and circulatory systems for clearance. Making room for the essential nutrients that it needs.
This springy cushion and shock absorption distributes pressure smoothly across a wide area.
A dehydrated sponge, by contrast, becomes stiff, sticky, and compressed. It can no longer absorb helpful substances efficiently or clear waste well, so metabolic byproducts may linger and nutrient deficiency result.
This is can be why the same area in our body can be triggered with inflammation over and over again. It can be musculoskeletal, visceral (organs), cellular, lymph … and so on.
When Fascia has lost its cushioning bounce, loads transmit unevenly and harshly, creating focal pressure points that stress joints, cartilage, and bone.
Over time this inefficient force distribution can accelerate wear-and-tear and contribute to the mechanical stresses associated with osteoarthritis, including pathways toward reduced joint space and bone-on-bone contact.
Pause for a moment and jot down any thoughts or questions….
Relationship to Lymph and Nerves
Fascia contains and supports lymphatic vessels and interstitial fluid spaces.
To help Lymph move well – we need healthy fascia!
Healthy, mobile fascia aids fluid dynamics and lymphatic return via mechanical pumping effects. Pumping is created via movement. Gentle movement of effective breathwork and gentle fluid movements.
Restricted or dehydrated fascia can impair fluid flow.
Fascia is also richly innervated (estimates suggest hundreds of millions of sensory nerve endings across the body-wide network) and forms protective sheaths around nerves.
Fascia contributes significantly to proprioception (where our body is in time and space), pain signaling, and overall sensory feedback.
Are you still with me…. hang in there!
Holistic elements of hydrated fascia and effective lymph movement require effective nerve supply.
Nerves need several key conditions for optimal function:
- Adequate blood supply delivering oxygen and nutrients
- Freedom from mechanical compression or irritation so they can glide and slide with movement
- A balanced bio-chemical environment with low inflammation
- Appropriate surrounding tissue support (including hydrated, mobile fascia)
- Balanced alignment and loading so that joint and soft-tissue stresses do not create sustained pressure on nerve pathways
When fascia densifies or restricts, it can reduce glide, alter local fluid exchange, and contribute to nerve irritation, wear and tear and or sensitisation.
This is something that we talk about in our sessions….
Restoring fascial mobility and hydration helps protect nerve function.
Why Movement, Breathwork, and Professional Care Matter
Sponge analogy…. Varied and multi-directional movement acts to effectively and repeatedly wring and re-soak the sponge.
Fluid, easy, movements promote fluid exchange that help to prevent adhesions and keeps impact distribution even through the mechanics of your body.
Breathwork (especially lateral thoracic breathing) creates rhythmic pressure changes and gentle fascial stretch through continuous connections (as you know via our class quizzes 😂diaphragm to psoas and thoracic area fascia), supporting fluid flow, reducing tension, and aiding lymphatic/venous return.
As a note – this is why breathwork is key for cardiovascular health including blood pressure….
Specific Chiropractic Care can assist these efforts holistically. The spinal and joint alignment, nerve supply, mobility restrictions, and biomechanical imbalances are an important aspect of nerve, lymph, fascia and overall health.
By improving joint function and posture through specific adjustments, appropriate movement and breathing techniques, improvement can occur across:
- Reducing abnormal mechanical stress on joints and surrounding soft tissues
- Decreasing potential sources of nerve irritation or interference linked to joint, immune system and health dysfunction
- Support more efficient movement patterns that help keep fascia mobile and hydrated
- Enhance overall load-sharing across the musculoskeletal system, which may lessen focal pressures that contribute to wear and tear.
A quick note about Manual Lymphatic Drainage
Beware heavy treatments for Manual Lymphatic Drainage. Slow and steady improvements with wellbeing will always be best. MLD should not hurt or cause physical discomfort. I will cover this topic more in the next newsletter.
Important….
Dehydrated or restricted fascia loses its ability to distribute force.
You have lived this – bone on bone and terms that you would have heard thrown around in your world
This dysfunction leads to more compressive loads onto joint surfaces, accelerating cartilage deterioration and the progression toward osteoarthritis symptoms.
Restoring glide, hydration, and balanced alignment supports healthier joint mechanics.
Aging is inevitable – is dehydrated fascia related to wear and tear
Yes, aging is inevitable, and changes in fascia are part of that process.
With age, fascia typically loses some water content, becomes less elastic, develops more collagen cross-links, and can thicken or densify in certain areas.
These shifts contribute to greater stiffness, reduced glide between tissue layers, and diminished shock absorption.
Depending on the individual, the techniques covered above are more than enough to improve and support recovery.
Link Between Dehydrated/Densified Fascia and Wear & Tear
Dehydrated or densified fascia reduces the tissue’s ability to distribute forces evenly.
Instead of acting like a resilient, springy network that shares load across muscles, tendons, and joints, restricted fascia can create uneven pressure points.
Altered mechanics increase focal stress on cartilage and bone surfaces in weight-bearing or high-use joints such as the knees, hips, lower back and shoulders.
Over years, that extra mechanical burden contributes to the progressive wear that characterizes osteoarthritis.
Research shows age-related fascial changes (including reduced hydration and increased stiffness) are associated with decreased joint range of motion and can compound the effects of inactivity, which further worsens densification.
I want to talk about hypermobility here… but I will save it for another newsletter.
Fascia changes are only one piece of a multifactorial process that also include prior injury, inflammation, muscle strength, alignment, and body weight. (plus more)
Can “Hydrating” Fascia Assist Bone-on-Bone Areas?
Improving fascial hydration and mobility (through consistent varied movement, appropriate loading, breathwork, manual therapies, and overall tissue care) can help in several supportive ways, especially in earlier stages or alongside other management strategies:
- Better force distribution and shock absorption around the joint
- Improved tissue glide, which may reduce compensatory tightness and secondary pain
- Enhanced local fluid exchange and lymphatic flow
- Support for healthier movement patterns that lessen abnormal joint loading and improve nerve supply
- Potential reduction in nerve irritation from restricted surrounding tissues
In joints already showing advanced “bone-on-bone” changes (significant cartilage loss visible on imaging), hydrating fascia in most cases will not regenerate lost cartilage or reverse established structural damage.
This requires in person discussion!
Holistic support can do help the surrounding soft-tissue system function more efficiently, which often improves comfort, mobility, stability, and quality of life.
Some people with radiographic bone-on-bone findings still move relatively well when the surrounding fascial and muscular support is optimized—this is why not everyone with the same X-ray findings has the same level of symptoms.
Practical approaches that support fascial health (movement that “squeezes and releases” the tissue like a sponge, specific and appropriate strength work for better load-sharing, mobility work, and skilled manual or chiropractic care for alignment and joint function) remain valuable at any age.
In short: dehydrated or restricted fascia is related to increased wear-and-tear stress, and improving its hydration and mobility can meaningfully assist function and comfort around compromised joints such as knees, hips, and shoulders.
For the Bone on Bone Discussion….
Yes, there are options that can enhance function, reduce pain, improve quality of life, and sometimes slow further deterioration in bone-on-bone (advanced osteoarthritis) scenarios.
Most approaches focus on symptom management, better load distribution, reduced inflammation, stronger supporting tissues, and overall joint resilience rather than reversing the bone-on-bone state itself.
Many people with radiographic bone-on-bone findings still achieve meaningful improvements in comfort and mobility.
Core Evidence-Based Foundations (Strongly Recommended)
These form the foundation of care for knees, hips, shoulders, and other joints:
- Exercise — Balanced strengthening of the muscles around the joint (especially quadriceps, hips, and core for lower-limb joints), low-impact aerobic activity, and neuromuscular training improve stability, reduce load on the joint surface, and often decrease pain.
- Weight management (if overweight) — Every kilogram lost reduces force through the knees with each step. Even modest loss can meaningfully ease symptoms and slow progression. If underweight…. build muscle!
- Activity modification and joint protection — Using walking poles, and other techniques we have discussed can help distribute load more evenly during daily tasks.
Holistic Approaches
Solutions!
- Mind-body movement practices — REEJUV, Tai chi and yoga have good evidence for reducing pain, improving function, balance, and stiffness.
- Manual therapies — Soft-tissue work, myofascial techniques, or chiropractic care aimed at improving surrounding tissue mobility, alignment, and fascial glide can help reduce secondary restrictions and improve overall mechanics (consistent with the fascia discussions we have had).
- Anti-inflammatory nutrition – maybe next newsletter
- Heat/cold therapy – sports balms to manage stiffness and pain.
- Breathwork and stress reduction — Helpful for pain perception and overall well-being.
Well…. that is a foundation overview of Fascia
As you know I am qualified to be discussing this with you.
Whatever your next steps may be …
Be efficient and effective and have individual guidance and professional support to ensure efforts are specific to the needs your bio-individuality.
Mindful Movement for Lymphatics and Fascia
We will continue to cover all of this in our sessions at Corlette Hall.
For anyone who wants a little more intensive support, I will be doing some specific classes at The Wellness Path. These sessions will also be perfect for anyone struggling to get down on the ground, as the bench there is perfect for the transition to getting back onto the ground.
Mindful movement is a journey of gentle fluid movements with the following intentions.
– joint mobility and health
– Balance, proprioception and nerve supply
– specific injury and health support
– hydrating fascia and movement of lymph
– balancing adrenals and nervous system
– Cranial Sacral support including Cranial nerve toning
– breathwork
– stress management support
– techniques to balance hormones and those sleeplessness nights
$35 per hour session (I might be able to extend your normal class rate for these sessions – ie. take a visit of your class pass)
Dates you can choose from
Thursday 24th 1pm
Saturday 26th 4pm
Monday 28th 1pm
I am not sure whether these sessions will be regular as it is all fluid discussion…. just let me know if you are interested and then I can update you as information comes up.
Evolutions in Our REEJUV Fusion Classes
As you are experiencing our REEJUV Fusion classes feel are evolving to support your needs even further with all this new study that I am pursuing.
We weave mindful movement, targeted mobility sequences, breath work, and fascial release techniques together in a way that hydrates and “de-glues” the tissue while building strength and stability.
The breathwork, multi-dimensional movements help restore that vital glide between layers, move fluids (helping clear toxins and deliver nutrients), calm the nervous system, and support the deep core and hip stabilisers we talked about earlier.
Other Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
Some retreats coming up that I facilitate at The Wellness Path.
3 hours – Refocus, Renew and Recharge
Wednesday 21st October | 9.45am – 1pm | $195
Friday 27th November | 9.45am – 1pm | $195
Whether you are Buddhist, Spiritual, Universal, Christian or any other belief and if your mind is open, my heart is ready to help you shift, rejuvenate, repair, improve, calm and restore. ~ Maree
There is no singular pathway to healing and health. It is essential to find your own individual path to build strength and resilience so you can embody all that keeps you strong.
Collaborating with the diverse healing talents of the Wellness Path Team, we provide a pause in your life where you can peel away the stress, the stored grief, physical and emotional inflammation and leave lighter and brighter to resume your day.
We know your time is precious so we will give you 3 hours to share this beautiful journey of renewal and rejuvention.
A 45 min treatment of either a facial, massage or energy healing.
Mindful movement for calming adrenals, hydrating fascia, moving lymph and feeling wonderful. Any injuries, health concerns and limitations are all catered for.
A small group with individual attention.
Meditation, sound bath and relaxation techniques to elevate your daily toolbox of fulfilling living.
Breathwork and more to elevate your emotional health and present time consciousness.
Refreshments and snacks included.
Optional extra hour for complimentary Spa and Sauna
Even though the day is with me, your booking is directly with The Wellness Path. Just click on the date you prefer at the top of this section and that will take you through the booking process🙏🏼.
Please also let me know if you plan to attend 😊
Monthly Sound Chakra Healing Meditations
Held at The Wellness Path.
Hour session (it is a bit longer) $35 cash paid on the day
September Saturday 19th September 4.15pm – 3 spaces left as at 18/09/2026 11am. Text me if you would like to come.
October Friday evening 30th
November Saturday 28th
December Saturday19th –
Dates Reejuv Fusion for September October 2026
Monday 4.15pm
Tuesday 8.55am
Thursday 10.45am
All at Corlette Hall
Exceptions:
No classes on the following dates
Monday 5th October – no session
Monday 12th October – no session
Tuesday 13th October – 8.55 is on! I am picking Kevin up from the airport and maybe slightly later to the hall, but still on time
Thursday 15th October – no session
All other expected sessions are on!
Well – how did I go?
Thank you for reading!
I hope you enjoyed the information 🤗
~ Best Wishes Always ~ Maree
Maree Frawley 