The Fascial Connections
Hands-on work to connect you with the inherent wisdom held in your body
Together we hold space for the potency of life and potential for change
Hello!
Colton here, I’m a Craniosacral therapist and Lymphedema specialist, and I’ve been a bodyworker for 15 years. Currently I’m located in Salt Lake City, Utah. While I love to offer structurally focused massage that is relaxing and leaves you ready to both take a nap a take a hold of your life. My true passion is helping those living with chronic illness or other conditions where our systems may have fallen short in showing up in beneficial ways and being there for folks pre and post surgery/medical procedures.
Most recently I have been really fascinated with scar tissue and the ways it gets integrated into the body after it’s initially laid down. Aside from the Lymphatic system, Craniosacral therapy, Scars, and fascia in general, I love movement. Spontaneous movement and sound are two of my all time favorite things. I feel playing with sound, movement and the way they interact with the body’s tissue and systems is fascinating and their potential to find new expressions of health and joy is the best thing we can do and offer our fellow man.
“The first thing for me when I touch someone is to let go of knowing anything, because if I think I know something, that’s what I’m likely to find — and I may miss what’s actually there. ”
How I Meet The Body
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Craniosacral Therapy
Rooted in osteopathy, this work remembers the body as a whole, orienting to the inherent health existing in all things. We work together in a gentle dialogue to create a relationship with resources our body already knows, in a space safe-enough for integration.
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Manual Lymphatic Drainage
This gentle practice directly targets the lymphatic system of the body. Lymphatics can be equated to both the bodies immune system and its garbage disposal, carrying away metabolic waste. Great for inflammation, pre/post surgical procedures and injury recovery.
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Massage & Bodywork
Hands on practice from a wide range of modalities. Intentionally crafted to help find ease and comfort within your body and day to day function. Sessions curated with your specific needs and postural balance in mind. Therapeutic work that’s both relaxing and beneficial.
Why Fascia?
Fascia, often used as an umbrella term for connective tissue, is just that. It’s the tissue of connection, inter-relation, and organization throughout our bodies. A continuous web, allowing for glide and translation of force. The fascial matrix is also where we find the highest concentration of nerve ending. This makes this tissue in the body a communication mecca where nerve signals are endlessly received and hormones are moving throughout, interfacing with cells in the body. All of this is happening in a fluid matrix which allows for any and all function in our bodies to be possible.
There’s a phrase attributed to A.T. Still, the father of Osteopathy, which is “Drainage precedes supply”. Any fluid in our body, not designated by a title (Blood, Lymph, Cerebrospinal Fluid, etc.), is then considered interstitial fluid. Interstitial fluid exists in the interstitial spaces of the body, which is literally the space that is created between and around the layers of fascia. By either creating more space around layers, moving metabolic waste from the space or easing the nervous system to allow for the layers to relax.
Our Bodies work 24/7 to orient to health utilizing our systems, creating a dynamic equilibrium, a state where they’re doing their best to find some sort or balance. When we hydrate, mobilize and revitalize the tissues in our body we allow new possibilities for movement and the way we engage the world around us. A shift, no matter how small, in a system whose entire purpose is to connect and relate within the body can open a whole world of potential.
A single session targeting aspects of fascial tissues can have monumental effect on day to day life. Sometimes the effects can be more subtle, titrating changes with profound impact, which didn’t happen over night and may not even be obvious until reflected upon. The more we can find ease within the easier it tends to be to relate with ourselves in the world around.
“As my studies advanced, the marvelous architecture of the fascia began to takes shape for me. I realized that it was the actual heart and soul of movement, coordinating it and collaborating with the central and autonomic nervous systems.”
