In this episode, Bonnie is teaching us all about fascia and the integrative stretching technique she practices: fascia flossing. Fascia flossing is both a workout and a recovery practice that focuses on engaging and contracting your muscles with active movement. Bonnie shares her journey of learning about the body through dance, yoga, and eventually this technique she first learned from her former teacher Bob Cooley who is internationally known as an expert on bio-mechanical flexibility and strength.

Bonnie is also a renowned teacher of fascia flossing -- a class that stretches to floss your fascia, activate your meridians, and keep your immune and lymph systems moving. In this episode we learn all about fascia flossing, what it is and how to do it, and hear Bonnie’s incredible personal journey to this work.

It’s not really stretching, it’s Flossing. A myofascial release you perform yourself. Let's take a step back. What's fascia? Fascia or myofascia is the webbing surrounding the muscles in your body. With a tensile strength greater than steel, this tissue provides structure for your musculoskeletal system and protects your muscles and deeper organs from trauma. Fascia holds memory, and because it's designed to protect your muscles, your joints, your ligaments, your inner organs, over time, adhesions are prone to develop in the fascia constricting your body and restricting movement resulting in tightness. That's where myofascial release aka fascia flossing comes in. Fascia Flossing allows those adhesions to break up, encourages your body to break up tightened areas of fascia that are no longer serving it. Fascia flossing is a new way to stretch without stretching, rejuvenating your connective tissue from the inside-out.

Permission to pay attention to your body. With co-founder Bonnie Crotzer, Kaita created movement-based practice The Floss inspired by active stretching and TCM for optimal well-being. This convo taught us what it means to listen to and honor our bodies for all they do for us.