#77: Skin to Soul: Redefining Health and Healing Through Fascia with Anna Rahe
Skin to Soul: Redefining Health and Healing Through Fascia
What if the true key to vitality, healing, and resilience isn’t in your muscles or bones—but in the hidden network of connective tissue that holds everything together?
In this transformative episode of Beyond the Pills, we sit down with Anna Rahe, founder of GST Body, fascia-focused wellness innovator, and upcoming author of Skin to Soul. With over 25 years of experience and 10,000+ hours dedicated to studying the body’s connective tissue system, Anna has redefined how we approach healing and human potential.
Anna shares the groundbreaking discovery that fascia—the body’s dynamic, fluid network—is far more than “connective tissue.” It’s the missing link between our physical structure, emotional patterns, and long-term health outcomes. Traditional fitness often focuses on tightening and toning, but Anna’s proprietary GST system promotes fluid, dynamic movement, cellular reprogramming, and holistic vitality.
We explore Anna’s personal journey—how debilitating health issues at just 18 led her to reject conventional medical answers and pioneer a new path to self-healing. From founding GST Body to preparing for the release of her first book and launching the Vital Life Studio, Anna’s mission is clear: to empower people to move better, heal deeper, and live longer.
Plus, Anna gives listeners a sneak peek into her annual GST retreat in Estes Park, Colorado, a transformative event that combines somatic therapy, fascia healing, and holistic body care in one breathtaking setting.
Whether you're struggling with chronic pain, seeking peak performance, or looking to truly thrive as you age, this episode will completely change the way you view your body—and your potential.
Connect with Anna Rahe:
🌐 Website: gstbody.com
📸 Instagram: @annaraheofgst | @gstbody
Upcoming Launches:
📖 Skin to Soul – Coming Soon!
🏕️ Annual GST Retreat – September, Estes Park, CO
Transcript
Hello, hello.
Speaker:Welcome to this episode of
Speaker:Beyond the Pills.
Speaker:I am Josh Remini,
Speaker:pharmacist turned healer.
Speaker:And today we are diving into
Speaker:a revolutionary
Speaker:conversation about a part
Speaker:of the body most people
Speaker:have never heard of,
Speaker:but it holds the key to how we heal, move,
Speaker:and even process our emotions.
Speaker:Anna Rae is a fascia focused
Speaker:wellness innovator with
Speaker:over twenty five years
Speaker:experience in redefining
Speaker:how we care for our bodies.
Speaker:She's the founder of GST Body,
Speaker:a groundbreaking fascia
Speaker:based system designed to restore vitality,
Speaker:prevent injury and unlock
Speaker:human potential.
Speaker:Who does not want all of those?
Speaker:Anna's work has been
Speaker:spotlighted by Goop League
Speaker:and featured in over forty podcasts,
Speaker:and now she's preparing to
Speaker:launch her first book, Skin to Soul,
Speaker:where she reveals how
Speaker:fascia is far more than the
Speaker:connective tissue.
Speaker:It's the bridge between physical health,
Speaker:emotional resilience, and true healing.
Speaker:Oh, so good.
Speaker:If you've ever struggled with chronic pain,
Speaker:stress patterns,
Speaker:or felt disconnected from
Speaker:your body's potential,
Speaker:this episode will open your
Speaker:eyes to a whole new
Speaker:dimension of wellness.
Speaker:Welcome, welcome, Anna.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:Josh, it's so nice to meet you.
Speaker:I really appreciate you having me on here.
Speaker:It's great.
Speaker:Yeah, let's dive in.
Speaker:I love reading people's bios
Speaker:because it just sets the
Speaker:stage for just such an open,
Speaker:beautiful conversation.
Speaker:Many people don't even know
Speaker:what the word fascia is.
Speaker:And I've been a student of
Speaker:this for a long time in my
Speaker:own health journey and my wife's journey.
Speaker:But can you just explain to
Speaker:the listeners what fascia
Speaker:truly is and why it's so critical?
Speaker:Yeah, that's such a great question.
Speaker:So the term fascia is a generic term.
Speaker:I kind of like to say it's a
Speaker:broad terminology for a
Speaker:type of tissue in the body.
Speaker:It's called connective tissue.
Speaker:Its most significant form or
Speaker:the way that it shows up in
Speaker:our health in its greatest
Speaker:capacity is as an entire body system.
Speaker:So I use those terms,
Speaker:connective tissue system and fascia,
Speaker:interchangeably.
Speaker:But for the listener,
Speaker:if you're thinking about
Speaker:fascia as a tissue,
Speaker:you might want to think
Speaker:about it like a fabric.
Speaker:of a type of outfit that you're wearing.
Speaker:If you are looking at it in the body,
Speaker:there's many different
Speaker:types of fascia that show
Speaker:up and they serve different functions.
Speaker:Like you have your myofascia,
Speaker:which is the fascia that
Speaker:surrounds your muscular skeletal system.
Speaker:it's really kind of sturdy
Speaker:like burlap and it can
Speaker:handle a lot of wear and
Speaker:tear and you wear it every
Speaker:day it's a wash and go kind
Speaker:of a of a tissue it's
Speaker:pretty um sturdy but then
Speaker:you also have viscera which
Speaker:is the fascia of your vital
Speaker:organs and it wraps around
Speaker:all of these really
Speaker:important body parts and
Speaker:it's part of your digestive
Speaker:system and part of these
Speaker:other um aspects of your
Speaker:health and wellness and so
Speaker:that would be more like
Speaker:silk or sateen it's softer
Speaker:it's more fragile it's a little bit more
Speaker:um uh like glidy and silky
Speaker:and it serves for motility
Speaker:in your organs and so each
Speaker:way that fascia shows up
Speaker:plays a specific role in
Speaker:its function of the other
Speaker:parts of your body so I
Speaker:like to talk about fascia
Speaker:really from this global
Speaker:view of whole body care
Speaker:where fascia is organized
Speaker:into an entire body system
Speaker:similar to your nervous system,
Speaker:similar to your digestive
Speaker:system or your endocrine system.
Speaker:It comes with different organs.
Speaker:These organs are not mast
Speaker:organs like a heart or like lungs.
Speaker:And this is probably why
Speaker:fascia has been kind of
Speaker:overlooked a lot in the
Speaker:medical and in the
Speaker:scientific community for many years,
Speaker:because it looked like a
Speaker:crazy kitty went mad inside with yarn.
Speaker:It's like white stuffing everywhere.
Speaker:If you peeled back your skin
Speaker:and you went inside,
Speaker:it doesn't look very ordered
Speaker:it doesn't look like a
Speaker:heart that's like whoa this
Speaker:is big and masked it looks
Speaker:really interesting it's
Speaker:like oh this is stuffing
Speaker:and we need to get it out
Speaker:of the way so we can get to
Speaker:the most vital parts of the
Speaker:anatomy and so it's kind of
Speaker:been overlooked but
Speaker:nevertheless fascial organs
Speaker:are organized based around
Speaker:the other body system so
Speaker:there's a way that fascia
Speaker:organizes around your endocrine system
Speaker:around and with your nervous system,
Speaker:around and with your digestive system.
Speaker:And in this way,
Speaker:it becomes one of the most
Speaker:significant organs inside your body,
Speaker:or not organs,
Speaker:one of the most significant
Speaker:systems with all of its organs,
Speaker:because it's really working
Speaker:on the back end of
Speaker:physiology to make sure
Speaker:that all the other systems
Speaker:are working well.
Speaker:So the condition of your fascia,
Speaker:how healthy it is,
Speaker:is influencing all these
Speaker:other layers of our physiology.
Speaker:That's a great way to,
Speaker:I've never heard someone
Speaker:really use the analogies of,
Speaker:the different types of fashion,
Speaker:how they sort of like, people learn,
Speaker:I learn,
Speaker:we all learn through analogies
Speaker:and saying it like that,
Speaker:like with the type of fabric that it is,
Speaker:because it is kind of like a fabric.
Speaker:And when you said burlap in my old fashion,
Speaker:it's like, oh,
Speaker:I instantly connected to that, right?
Speaker:And I've always used,
Speaker:and not from the
Speaker:perspective that I've learned from it,
Speaker:is in the modality of pain, right?
Speaker:We're gonna talk about pain
Speaker:today and we'll talk about
Speaker:why fascia is so important
Speaker:to maintaining that balance of pain,
Speaker:because if it isn't healthy,
Speaker:things go awry.
Speaker:And I'd love to talk to you
Speaker:a little bit about what
Speaker:I've been doing with this space,
Speaker:but your personal,
Speaker:how the heck did you get into this,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:It's like, you know,
Speaker:Let's talk about your
Speaker:personal journey into
Speaker:discovering fashion and
Speaker:where was the defining
Speaker:moment or this missing
Speaker:piece in your journey here?
Speaker:Because I think it's
Speaker:important to understand
Speaker:where people came from
Speaker:because a lot of the times,
Speaker:We connect through story,
Speaker:but all the practitioners
Speaker:in these beautiful health
Speaker:and healing and wellness
Speaker:spaces that I'm talking to,
Speaker:we all have a personal
Speaker:story attached to it.
Speaker:And so I'm curious on where
Speaker:this all came from,
Speaker:because it is kind of a
Speaker:thing that people don't really go for,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:I mean,
Speaker:it takes a smoking gun where it's like,
Speaker:oh, I...
Speaker:I'm a heart guy because I
Speaker:did the heart thing.
Speaker:Like it's like, it's,
Speaker:it's underneath all that.
Speaker:So I want to explore your
Speaker:story a little bit.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a,
Speaker:it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a,
Speaker:it's a, it's a,
Speaker:really a sense of deep,
Speaker:deep pain that was
Speaker:multifaceted and so
Speaker:complicated that I would go
Speaker:to tons of different specialists,
Speaker:some for my gastrointestinal problems,
Speaker:some for my low back and
Speaker:muscular skeletal problems.
Speaker:And then I'd go to acupuncturists.
Speaker:And then, I mean,
Speaker:I like would circle trying
Speaker:to get really definitive
Speaker:what is wrong with my body.
Speaker:What is interesting that
Speaker:will probably come up in
Speaker:our conversation later is
Speaker:that I had gone since I was in fourteen,
Speaker:I was in really deep
Speaker:therapy for childhood sexual abuse.
Speaker:And it wasn't until I was
Speaker:actually eighteen that I
Speaker:chose to commit to this
Speaker:journey of healing.
Speaker:I was really seeing I had a
Speaker:kind of divining moment where I was like,
Speaker:if I don't fix what's
Speaker:happening inside of me,
Speaker:the emotional and
Speaker:psycho-emotional problems I'm having,
Speaker:the course of my life will
Speaker:really be altered.
Speaker:And so I went away and lived
Speaker:in a mountain cabin for
Speaker:three months and did intensive,
Speaker:extensive therapy for trauma healing.
Speaker:And it wasn't actually until,
Speaker:I was already a dancer and stuff,
Speaker:but it wasn't until about
Speaker:two to three months after
Speaker:this time in Estes Park,
Speaker:outside of Rocky Mountain National Park,
Speaker:that my body actually
Speaker:started showing symptoms.
Speaker:And the reason I say this is
Speaker:that oftentimes our body
Speaker:will be the container and
Speaker:the captor and the keeper
Speaker:of our of our hurt and our
Speaker:wounds and our stress
Speaker:without speaking it so that
Speaker:you can go on functioning
Speaker:and once I was willing to
Speaker:say I can create the space
Speaker:for you to heal then my
Speaker:body started talking and
Speaker:when it started talking it
Speaker:was the loudest most
Speaker:chaotic and really difficult
Speaker:conversation that I was
Speaker:trying to get my attention to.
Speaker:So I would have symptoms
Speaker:that were really severe,
Speaker:like IBS type symptoms.
Speaker:I would have colonoscopies
Speaker:and I would have
Speaker:radiologists looking at the
Speaker:lining and what is
Speaker:happening in the CAT scan
Speaker:and nothing would show up.
Speaker:And then I would have like
Speaker:flare ups in one of the
Speaker:scarier symptoms was
Speaker:my respiratory system.
Speaker:And so I would go to a
Speaker:pulmonologist and I'd ask them to like,
Speaker:look at why my heart was
Speaker:not beating right.
Speaker:And then my lungs wouldn't
Speaker:expand and they would try
Speaker:to do breathing tests.
Speaker:They'd give me inhalers and
Speaker:things just weren't like adding up.
Speaker:And every time I brought up other symptoms,
Speaker:my specialist would say,
Speaker:that's not related.
Speaker:and my you know digestive
Speaker:doctor would be like that's
Speaker:not related and I would go
Speaker:to acupuncturist and I
Speaker:would get a lot of relief
Speaker:that was one of the
Speaker:therapies that was really
Speaker:telling in this and it kind
Speaker:of has a circular story but
Speaker:the longer or the shorter
Speaker:directive was I would go
Speaker:out and my symptoms were
Speaker:very volatile which was
Speaker:also scary so I would go
Speaker:out one day running through
Speaker:golden gate park
Speaker:I would be keeping like
Speaker:seven and a half minute miles as my,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:kind of conditioning as a dancer.
Speaker:And I would be like in the
Speaker:best shape of my life.
Speaker:Three days later,
Speaker:I would do the exact same
Speaker:run and I'd feel like a ten
Speaker:pack a day smoker.
Speaker:And I was like, what is this?
Speaker:Why am I having so much
Speaker:problems with these symptoms?
Speaker:And I had brain fog.
Speaker:I had
Speaker:you know, depression.
Speaker:So there's a lot of
Speaker:different symptoms overlapping.
Speaker:And I kept, you know,
Speaker:just kind of mental notes.
Speaker:And I like,
Speaker:it's weird that when I have my
Speaker:digestive thing,
Speaker:I have this and this also.
Speaker:And when I have had clarity
Speaker:or when I have stretched like this,
Speaker:which is interesting,
Speaker:I would have this symptom ease up.
Speaker:And so I started seeing very early on a
Speaker:um kind of a connection
Speaker:between these symptoms and
Speaker:I had been certified in
Speaker:pilates I is already a yoga
Speaker:teacher in a couple
Speaker:different disciplines um I
Speaker:had quite a bit of you know
Speaker:anatomical knowledge um and
Speaker:basic physiology like I
Speaker:knew about the organs and
Speaker:what they did and
Speaker:But I was like, it's not this.
Speaker:And I was going through this
Speaker:like list of what it couldn't be.
Speaker:And I'm like, well,
Speaker:I don't think this is muscular skeletal.
Speaker:I don't think that this is blah, blah,
Speaker:blah.
Speaker:Cause I would have really
Speaker:bad flare ups in my
Speaker:fibromyalgia type things.
Speaker:And I couldn't like take
Speaker:shirts off over my shoulders, my arms,
Speaker:and I'd get frozen shoulder
Speaker:and I wouldn't know why.
Speaker:So all of this to say is
Speaker:that it felt chaotic.
Speaker:It felt multi-tiered and I
Speaker:couldn't point my finger,
Speaker:even though I was already a
Speaker:working professional,
Speaker:and had quite a bit of understanding.
Speaker:And one day I just had this download.
Speaker:I'm like, could this be fascia?
Speaker:And I'm like, wait a second,
Speaker:what is fascia?
Speaker:I remember it from my Pilates training.
Speaker:I remember learning about it.
Speaker:And so I just did a deep dive.
Speaker:And at the time,
Speaker:this is twenty five years ago,
Speaker:it was even a little bit
Speaker:more covert than it is now.
Speaker:Like it was just not very well known.
Speaker:And mostly it was known in
Speaker:manual therapy circles.
Speaker:And I did a Rolfing set of ten.
Speaker:I did Heller work.
Speaker:And what was really
Speaker:interesting in hindsight is
Speaker:that I got some benefits,
Speaker:but I would also get really
Speaker:flared up by certain things
Speaker:that were done to my fashion.
Speaker:I was like, this is really interesting.
Speaker:So I did a twenty five year
Speaker:journey to cut this short.
Speaker:I did a twenty five year journey,
Speaker:basically testing first in
Speaker:myself like a lab rat.
Speaker:And I would do severe things
Speaker:that would antagonize my
Speaker:conditions and my pain.
Speaker:And I'd study it and I'd be like, why?
Speaker:And I'd go home and have
Speaker:three hours of relaxation and rolling.
Speaker:And that would make me feel better.
Speaker:But then I'd get up and go
Speaker:to my dance rehearsal and
Speaker:everything would flare up.
Speaker:And meanwhile,
Speaker:I was doing more and more
Speaker:studies and I would start charting.
Speaker:People tell me to do this
Speaker:and it flares me up.
Speaker:I go home and do the
Speaker:opposite and I'm feeling better.
Speaker:Why?
Speaker:And so it took a sense of
Speaker:courage and like questioning.
Speaker:huge experts.
Speaker:My dad was able to help me
Speaker:go to some of the leading
Speaker:experts in the field on
Speaker:whatever my issue was.
Speaker:And so it took a lot of
Speaker:courage for me to own my
Speaker:own health and be like, wait a second,
Speaker:what you're telling me to do isn't right.
Speaker:And if I do this, I'm feeling better.
Speaker:So I started collecting the
Speaker:things that I was doing and
Speaker:then I started teaching it to others.
Speaker:I had a Pilates studio at
Speaker:the time and I would have
Speaker:people fly in from Sweden
Speaker:with Crohn's disease and
Speaker:this problem and
Speaker:inflammation and
Speaker:Hashimoto's and all of
Speaker:these kind of symptoms.
Speaker:And we would work for a
Speaker:couple days and their
Speaker:symptoms would absolutely
Speaker:like cut by fifty, enhance, you know,
Speaker:their biofeedback machines
Speaker:would be reading differently.
Speaker:And I was like, I'm on to something.
Speaker:I don't know what it is.
Speaker:And it was just like trial and error.
Speaker:And I'd be like, OK, well,
Speaker:I think this works.
Speaker:I think this works.
Speaker:And the conclusion of this
Speaker:was just after the years of doing this,
Speaker:I was like,
Speaker:I'm doing something different
Speaker:and I need to not canonize it to method.
Speaker:I didn't wanna like make it
Speaker:rigid and stuff.
Speaker:I'm like,
Speaker:I need to have this be as open
Speaker:and free as what I'm
Speaker:learning in the body.
Speaker:And so I just said, what am I doing?
Speaker:And I started working with
Speaker:scientists and bringing it
Speaker:into more like laboratory
Speaker:and clinical analysis to be like,
Speaker:what is happening here?
Speaker:And two things stood out.
Speaker:Number one,
Speaker:fascia has the ability to
Speaker:contract on purpose.
Speaker:I learned how fascia would
Speaker:actually organize in
Speaker:contractile patterns to be
Speaker:able to make a significant
Speaker:impact on how fascia is animating.
Speaker:It's a word that I created
Speaker:because it's different than stretch.
Speaker:Stretching only got me so
Speaker:far and tissue animation
Speaker:made a huge difference.
Speaker:There's all this stuff as to why.
Speaker:The second thing we noted is
Speaker:that remodeling only
Speaker:happens best through heavy
Speaker:loads and high repetition and duration,
Speaker:which means that manual
Speaker:therapy can always be
Speaker:managing our condition but
Speaker:cannot really be a solution
Speaker:for it because our movement,
Speaker:the way we inhabit our
Speaker:bodies and use our bodies
Speaker:is a greater influence over
Speaker:the condition of our fascia
Speaker:than anything else.
Speaker:And so
Speaker:Basically, I created a technology.
Speaker:There's seven of them that
Speaker:are infused with using movement.
Speaker:So you know how this you'll
Speaker:like this because of all of
Speaker:your multiple disciplines
Speaker:is that a chiropractor and
Speaker:an acupuncturist and a
Speaker:massage therapist and an
Speaker:osteopath are all doing or
Speaker:all using the same tools,
Speaker:but with different points of focus.
Speaker:They all have a lever.
Speaker:That's a stick.
Speaker:It's basically a long stick
Speaker:that you're going to push force through,
Speaker:some type of a force load,
Speaker:which could be gravity, could be friction,
Speaker:could be traction, could be compression.
Speaker:These are all force loads.
Speaker:And they're all trying to
Speaker:eventually get flow.
Speaker:So a chiropractor focuses on
Speaker:the skeletal system primarily.
Speaker:They like to use your own
Speaker:body shapes to configure your levers.
Speaker:They drop force into your
Speaker:body to get joints to flow.
Speaker:Massage therapists use their own levers.
Speaker:Osteopaths use the levers of
Speaker:their fingers.
Speaker:And they apply force to
Speaker:either your vital organs or your muscles.
Speaker:And they're trying to get
Speaker:the muscles to release into
Speaker:a state of relaxation and flow.
Speaker:And acupuncturists use the
Speaker:lever of a needle.
Speaker:They stick it into your chi.
Speaker:And from there,
Speaker:they try to activate the
Speaker:meridian to get the chi to flow.
Speaker:And so all of these
Speaker:disciplines are seeing that
Speaker:really movement is,
Speaker:whether it's on the
Speaker:physiological level of your meridians,
Speaker:or if it's on the physical
Speaker:level of your muscles and your bones,
Speaker:we have to have a continuum
Speaker:of motion constantly surging through us.
Speaker:And this comes back to what fascia is,
Speaker:is that fascia is your energy modulator.
Speaker:It's your body's smart grid.
Speaker:It's responsible for taking
Speaker:high voltage loads from the
Speaker:outside to the low voltage
Speaker:loads of our physiology,
Speaker:the energy that comes off our EKG,
Speaker:the way our lungs expand,
Speaker:the way cellular
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:remodeling is happening and it's
Speaker:supposed to dampen the big
Speaker:voltage and modulate it to
Speaker:the little voltage.
Speaker:And it starts to move and
Speaker:metabolize energy through
Speaker:your system and septic
Speaker:energy creates disease and
Speaker:metabolic problems in the body.
Speaker:And so last thing,
Speaker:I guess I'll just say in
Speaker:the journey of finding this
Speaker:is that we take your body,
Speaker:you have five levers and
Speaker:And we teach you how to
Speaker:align them in these really
Speaker:important pathways that
Speaker:align fascia to be able to
Speaker:get the energy to move and
Speaker:flow where the fibers are
Speaker:hydrated and being able to move.
Speaker:And this changes the science
Speaker:for how we address biomechanics.
Speaker:And that's the real like
Speaker:crux of this is that fascia
Speaker:is seventy percent water.
Speaker:It is not a solid system.
Speaker:And so it behaves under the
Speaker:laws of fluid dynamics.
Speaker:I don't know how many of
Speaker:your listeners would be
Speaker:familiar with that,
Speaker:but that our biomechanical
Speaker:model for sports and
Speaker:conditioning and fitness and therapy,
Speaker:physical therapy is all
Speaker:based upon levers and pulleys.
Speaker:And fascia says, wait,
Speaker:I'm not a lever pulley system.
Speaker:I'm a hydraulic system.
Speaker:I am tubes, not sticks.
Speaker:And I am seventy percent
Speaker:water with fiber lattices
Speaker:that actually push and pull
Speaker:energy through and across
Speaker:the grid rather than trying
Speaker:to lock it up.
Speaker:And so what I do is I
Speaker:basically teach people to
Speaker:be their own practitioners
Speaker:using movement and the
Speaker:configuration of those tools, lever,
Speaker:force,
Speaker:and flow to be able to heal and
Speaker:restore almost any aspect of the body.
Speaker:And it's more because of what fascia is.
Speaker:It's deeply innervated into our autonomic,
Speaker:body systems,
Speaker:our nervous system that is
Speaker:automatic for us.
Speaker:And if you can tap into the
Speaker:automatic things on purpose somatically,
Speaker:then you have a game
Speaker:changer in your health.
Speaker:Whoo.
Speaker:There's a lot in that to unpack,
Speaker:holy moly.
Speaker:No, I- I'm a heavy doser.
Speaker:No, it's great,
Speaker:because the story is so beautiful.
Speaker:This is literally the link
Speaker:between the energetics, the emotional,
Speaker:and the physical.
Speaker:Because fascism starts
Speaker:psychological loads too.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And when you talked about it
Speaker:in the beginning of this segment,
Speaker:you were talking about your
Speaker:emotional pain,
Speaker:your emotional traumas and how it stores.
Speaker:We know now that our
Speaker:emotions store in our body.
Speaker:And then when you release
Speaker:that or you're ready to
Speaker:release those traumas, then...
Speaker:it became evident in the body, right?
Speaker:I did this the other day.
Speaker:It was funny.
Speaker:I was doing an energy extraction.
Speaker:I'm doing my shamanic stuff with somebody,
Speaker:and I was doing an energy extraction,
Speaker:pulling an energy out.
Speaker:And what had happened is,
Speaker:and we talk in the shamanic world,
Speaker:fluid energies and crystallized energies.
Speaker:They're sort of different, right?
Speaker:Some are fluid and they can just flow out,
Speaker:and some are crystallized.
Speaker:We've got to do something different.
Speaker:I was working with this
Speaker:client and what had
Speaker:happened was really critical.
Speaker:It's so important because I
Speaker:just got so much more
Speaker:insights of this from this
Speaker:conversation because we
Speaker:pulled the energy out, but her,
Speaker:her hip got,
Speaker:worse the next day.
Speaker:Like it was like, I w I was like, Oh,
Speaker:we're moving that energy.
Speaker:And it's, it's now presenting in this way,
Speaker:physically it's moving,
Speaker:it's ready to come through.
Speaker:And we ended up doing a little bit more.
Speaker:I wish I had learned about
Speaker:the fascia part of this, but it was like,
Speaker:literally my intuition told
Speaker:me to crystallize the
Speaker:energy and move that out in
Speaker:a different way.
Speaker:And we did.
Speaker:And it resolved within two days.
Speaker:But it was really
Speaker:interesting that we were moving energy,
Speaker:which created the physical ailment,
Speaker:which then,
Speaker:but that makes sense because
Speaker:it is flowing and moving.
Speaker:And now I kind of,
Speaker:it's funny how we talk
Speaker:about the fascia linking everything.
Speaker:This is linked the way that
Speaker:I experienced that now in a
Speaker:different way.
Speaker:So that was really cool.
Speaker:Well,
Speaker:it's cool to understand that your
Speaker:crystallization of energy,
Speaker:even if you're able to
Speaker:modulate it and metabolize it out,
Speaker:the fibers that are actual structure,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:They're not the energetics.
Speaker:They were holding the energetics.
Speaker:You still have to remodel
Speaker:the structure that was containing it.
Speaker:right yeah and that's two
Speaker:days to move out at least
Speaker:yeah this is why multimodal
Speaker:practitioners are are so
Speaker:important because we can
Speaker:move energies but then the
Speaker:fascia and I love that the
Speaker:your analogy of like the
Speaker:fluid dynamics and it being
Speaker:seventy percent water
Speaker:because most people are
Speaker:thinking it's this this
Speaker:rigid network it's they
Speaker:just keep dynamic and most
Speaker:people that I've worked
Speaker:with with fascia are always
Speaker:concerned about the stretching and the
Speaker:That kind of component only,
Speaker:when I learned about fascia,
Speaker:it was because I was going
Speaker:through pain management
Speaker:certifications with
Speaker:compounding because we can
Speaker:move certain cool,
Speaker:awesome modality pain
Speaker:creams into the fascia to
Speaker:interact with it in different ways.
Speaker:from the nerve component
Speaker:side of it and doing that.
Speaker:So it's like all of it's
Speaker:kind of coming full circle.
Speaker:I loved how we connected the, the body,
Speaker:the mind and the spirit
Speaker:into where this stuff is.
Speaker:It's almost like the
Speaker:connection between like
Speaker:energy and physical, right?
Speaker:It's like right here and
Speaker:it's right in that space.
Speaker:So that's so cool.
Speaker:It's super cool.
Speaker:I also love that we, you,
Speaker:you talked about the, um,
Speaker:just in your process of your,
Speaker:I call it the wounded healer's journey,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:Your journey of twenty-five years of,
Speaker:one of the philosophies
Speaker:I've had with the
Speaker:practitioners that I mentor
Speaker:is do you first, right?
Speaker:When you're in a wellness-based
Speaker:thing.
Speaker:It's,
Speaker:we don't prescribe this without
Speaker:having gone through it, right?
Speaker:Like doing these things.
Speaker:And I love that your journey,
Speaker:it's very similar.
Speaker:It's like,
Speaker:you're taking this piece that you learned,
Speaker:and you're taking this
Speaker:piece that you learned,
Speaker:and then you're taking this
Speaker:piece that you learned,
Speaker:and you're just blending it
Speaker:into this thing that
Speaker:becomes Anna Ray's thing,
Speaker:where you're just becoming this whole,
Speaker:I call it like a five D puzzle, right?
Speaker:You know, my puzzle has been, you know,
Speaker:pharmacist, cancer survivor,
Speaker:turn functional medicine guy,
Speaker:turn nutritionist, turn energy healer.
Speaker:Like I just put all of them
Speaker:together to create what
Speaker:works in the space that I work.
Speaker:And I love that you kind of
Speaker:over these twenty five
Speaker:years that you your journey
Speaker:has gotten you to this.
Speaker:this place where it's just
Speaker:keep folding for you it
Speaker:keeps becoming something
Speaker:that's more I never say
Speaker:change anymore I just say
Speaker:it's been this evolution
Speaker:and that evolution has
Speaker:become this beautiful thing
Speaker:that you've done through
Speaker:your Pilates and all the
Speaker:other components of yoga
Speaker:and learning about the
Speaker:fashion and going down into
Speaker:the science and learning from that,
Speaker:learning from the scientific,
Speaker:because backed by science
Speaker:is a big thing for me.
Speaker:And now we're, yeah,
Speaker:but we're moving now into
Speaker:the realm of like,
Speaker:Quantum and healing in these
Speaker:different energetic places
Speaker:where we're merging.
Speaker:This is why it's beautiful
Speaker:for this conversation,
Speaker:because this podcast is the
Speaker:merging of ancient wisdom
Speaker:and modern science put together,
Speaker:not one or the other.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:We're not going to the
Speaker:acupuncturist only and
Speaker:we're not going to the physical doctor.
Speaker:Like we're blending all this
Speaker:together to get that deeper
Speaker:understanding of both and not or.
Speaker:So I love how you shared with that.
Speaker:Let's get into this system
Speaker:that you've GST and looking
Speaker:at what you're doing,
Speaker:because I think let's tie
Speaker:it up in this way where
Speaker:what are you doing with folks?
Speaker:You said I teach people.
Speaker:What is this process that
Speaker:you take people through?
Speaker:Well,
Speaker:I think that I just you said some
Speaker:really nice things I wanted
Speaker:to just highlight,
Speaker:which kind of leads into that story,
Speaker:which is I also tell people
Speaker:and especially practitioners,
Speaker:you can only heal,
Speaker:offer the healing to others
Speaker:that you have experienced in yourself.
Speaker:And so more than just how
Speaker:much training we get,
Speaker:it's that is important and it's knowledge,
Speaker:but it's actually the infusion.
Speaker:It's you distilling that.
Speaker:the healing in you where you
Speaker:share not just the
Speaker:knowledge or the facts and
Speaker:the stuff you know,
Speaker:it's that you're sharing yourself.
Speaker:And so in GST,
Speaker:what's really interesting is
Speaker:I tried all these other
Speaker:modalities and they're not a hybrid.
Speaker:It's not like I've taken everything.
Speaker:It's like, I only kept,
Speaker:I only found and sought the
Speaker:things that actually worked, right?
Speaker:So it's like what you're saying,
Speaker:that distillation process of like,
Speaker:Yes, this could be a principle that's,
Speaker:you know, true, right?
Speaker:Like solid mechanics works.
Speaker:But if it doesn't work in
Speaker:all these applications,
Speaker:it becomes less relevant.
Speaker:And so I think that the goal
Speaker:is to be able to also not
Speaker:just have the knowledge,
Speaker:but be doing the work.
Speaker:because I've been treated by
Speaker:healers that are very knowledgeable,
Speaker:but they haven't actually done,
Speaker:they haven't integrated.
Speaker:They haven't done the transformation.
Speaker:And so in a way,
Speaker:it's a refinement process
Speaker:where you're clearing the dross.
Speaker:I talk about this even if
Speaker:it's in a personal journey
Speaker:where your struggle,
Speaker:the warrior's journey you
Speaker:talk about is it heats you.
Speaker:It puts you under the fire
Speaker:of change and it removes the impurities.
Speaker:It removes the non-essentials.
Speaker:It removes the things that
Speaker:aren't really there.
Speaker:going to heal you.
Speaker:And then it leaves the gold.
Speaker:It leaves who you are after the healing.
Speaker:It leaves the, the,
Speaker:power in you to be able to share.
Speaker:And that is really what is healing people,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:It's not you doing it on someone,
Speaker:it's you stepping ahead and
Speaker:sharing the thing that healed you, right?
Speaker:And that's why you go before.
Speaker:So profound in the way you said it too,
Speaker:is because that is the,
Speaker:it's not the blueprint.
Speaker:It's literally, you know, the formula,
Speaker:the formula.
Speaker:It's like not one formula,
Speaker:but it's the formula for healing.
Speaker:the difference between
Speaker:practicing medicine and healing, right?
Speaker:When there's a practitioner
Speaker:versus a healer.
Speaker:Yeah, and I resonate so much because
Speaker:these healing journeys we've gone through.
Speaker:Now it's like we can speak
Speaker:through empathy.
Speaker:We can speak through experience.
Speaker:We don't speak through tech.
Speaker:And this has been a learning curve for me,
Speaker:Mr. Technical everything, right?
Speaker:Going through the science of
Speaker:all of it and moving it
Speaker:into this space of like,
Speaker:like heal yourself and also
Speaker:be compelled to heal others,
Speaker:these callings that we have.
Speaker:So that's such a beautiful,
Speaker:elegant way to say that.
Speaker:So thank you for bringing
Speaker:that up because that is the
Speaker:true essence to me too,
Speaker:is like the difference
Speaker:between a practitioner and
Speaker:what we're doing when we
Speaker:talk about healing.
Speaker:Because for me, I don't know about you,
Speaker:but like I'm in the
Speaker:business of transformation
Speaker:and healing now.
Speaker:I don't want to be into...
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:the pill for the ill or the
Speaker:symptom resolution anymore.
Speaker:It's like empowering people,
Speaker:like we're not doing the stuff to them.
Speaker:We're there to be the facilitator,
Speaker:the guide in their journey
Speaker:and empowerment.
Speaker:We talked about this a few
Speaker:times in this conversation
Speaker:is empowering ourselves to
Speaker:be in the driver's seat.
Speaker:And there's just another beautiful reason.
Speaker:When looking at your own
Speaker:journey and doing your own journey,
Speaker:this is for the lay person
Speaker:or for the practitioner who
Speaker:wants to bring more to their practices,
Speaker:that doing the healing is
Speaker:what actually builds both empathy, right?
Speaker:You then have this space where you're like,
Speaker:I understand your pain in a way that
Speaker:And that's actually where
Speaker:we're gonna work.
Speaker:And it's a guide to say
Speaker:where you wanna jump into
Speaker:and be with people.
Speaker:And then when you're actually tapping in,
Speaker:and I think you know this
Speaker:from your shamanic work, which is,
Speaker:you're actually like,
Speaker:it's almost a conduit where
Speaker:there's an exchange.
Speaker:You're not just dealing with their energy,
Speaker:you're the infusion, right?
Speaker:You're saying,
Speaker:let me guide from the place
Speaker:that I'm holding and the
Speaker:place that I want you to
Speaker:get some of this energy.
Speaker:I don't know about you,
Speaker:but I did a lot of energy work
Speaker:both on people and stuff.
Speaker:And I can't do it more than
Speaker:like maybe a session, maybe two,
Speaker:if it's strictly energy,
Speaker:because it's just because of the exchange,
Speaker:the exchange of energy of what you're,
Speaker:it's almost like a state of
Speaker:gifting energy.
Speaker:the space and the information.
Speaker:When you start looking at fascia,
Speaker:fascia is an information system.
Speaker:It's a communication and a
Speaker:sensory information system.
Speaker:And so you're literally exchanging,
Speaker:fascia also acts like a membrane.
Speaker:So it's transitional, it's permeable.
Speaker:And so when you lay your hands on someone,
Speaker:you're opening up the
Speaker:fascial membrane of both
Speaker:consciousness sensorily and
Speaker:neurologically,
Speaker:to be able to infuse information.
Speaker:And that is why you have to
Speaker:be healed because you don't
Speaker:want to put your unhealed
Speaker:energy into a person you're
Speaker:trying to heal.
Speaker:It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker:I've never had a
Speaker:conversation about fascia
Speaker:like this before.
Speaker:It's so amazing because
Speaker:we're interconnecting this
Speaker:energetics that we're
Speaker:learning more in the science.
Speaker:When we're
Speaker:we're looking at this,
Speaker:this is not woo anymore.
Speaker:Like this is quantum mechanics.
Speaker:Like we're talking about
Speaker:frequency matching.
Speaker:And when healers have gone
Speaker:through their own healing
Speaker:journey and they're matched
Speaker:and sometimes they're just like,
Speaker:I'm a cancer survivor in some reason.
Speaker:I know like people are coming now.
Speaker:They're finding me to help
Speaker:them in different ways because they're
Speaker:for whatever reason,
Speaker:there's this energetic match, right?
Speaker:And so when people think of
Speaker:that as like totally just woo, it's like,
Speaker:no, we're actually,
Speaker:we're proving that this in
Speaker:our West world brains,
Speaker:like there's a frequency
Speaker:match that just happens.
Speaker:And that's where that
Speaker:interconnected play comes from.
Speaker:So I love that you're
Speaker:connecting this in the physical realm.
Speaker:Or I'd like to say it's not
Speaker:in the energetic realm.
Speaker:it's fascia I would like to
Speaker:just say like I saw it but
Speaker:I it's fascia that is the
Speaker:connection which is why I
Speaker:get so excited about it
Speaker:because I'm like I I I kind of
Speaker:I, in my heart,
Speaker:I'm a philosopher and a sage and in my,
Speaker:you know, like, you know,
Speaker:wanting to help my body,
Speaker:I'm like a scientist and I'm like, oh,
Speaker:this isn't actually either or, right?
Speaker:It's this beautiful and the
Speaker:only reason that we can
Speaker:physically explain some of
Speaker:this stuff now is through
Speaker:the connective tissue system.
Speaker:It's not a miraculous system.
Speaker:It's still biologically a
Speaker:carbon life system,
Speaker:but what it houses and what
Speaker:it facilitates is pretty profound.
Speaker:Yeah, well,
Speaker:it's just it's kind of like
Speaker:when you see I just have
Speaker:this like I like thought in my like,
Speaker:how do you exactly what it is?
Speaker:It's like fashion is like
Speaker:it's the interconnection of
Speaker:the realm of the energetic
Speaker:realm into the body.
Speaker:And we've also connected it with emotion.
Speaker:And so it's body, mind, spirit.
Speaker:It's like this.
Speaker:This is how it all works, guys.
Speaker:It's so cool.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:so let's get back to how you
Speaker:the how you work with
Speaker:people I want people to
Speaker:understand like because
Speaker:this is it's it's super
Speaker:breakthrough I love this
Speaker:stuff and it's it's how do
Speaker:people work with you what
Speaker:what what type of offers do
Speaker:you like what type of
Speaker:programs are you doing do
Speaker:you one-on-one is it group is it online
Speaker:I have it all.
Speaker:Yes, you say yes.
Speaker:We all do nowadays, right?
Speaker:We have yes.
Speaker:I really love working with people.
Speaker:I love working with people
Speaker:in my studio here.
Speaker:This is also where we have
Speaker:an online studio.
Speaker:I was scared in twenty twenty.
Speaker:I closed my studio in L.A.
Speaker:in twenty nineteen, not because of COVID,
Speaker:but because I was
Speaker:transitioning in the in the
Speaker:business and I had lost my lease.
Speaker:And I was like,
Speaker:what's the next step for me?
Speaker:So I closed the physical
Speaker:studio and we did go
Speaker:digital November of twenty nineteen.
Speaker:And then sure enough, like COVID happened.
Speaker:It was a miracle that I was
Speaker:kind of two months ahead of the curve.
Speaker:But I really missed people.
Speaker:We are first human with
Speaker:spiritual potential and we
Speaker:will become spiritual,
Speaker:but we have to remember
Speaker:that the physicality of who
Speaker:we are is deeply spiritual
Speaker:in that it's the embryo
Speaker:state of ourselves.
Speaker:And so I want to work with
Speaker:people in the body because
Speaker:I think that that is where
Speaker:we work out our spiritual journeys.
Speaker:And so
Speaker:I miss that, but I do see people.
Speaker:They tend to come in and fly
Speaker:in to see me now.
Speaker:I see some people locally.
Speaker:So I was really happy in
Speaker:twenty twenty when I
Speaker:discovered that GST
Speaker:actually translates through
Speaker:the screen in a really vital,
Speaker:extremely unique way.
Speaker:It's not really like exercise and fitness,
Speaker:even though a lot of people
Speaker:associate movement with fitness.
Speaker:It's really translating, we call it like,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:body manipulation or tissue
Speaker:manipulation through movement.
Speaker:We use movement to do
Speaker:serious cellular remodeling
Speaker:following these very basic principles,
Speaker:scientific-based principles
Speaker:of how fascia and other
Speaker:cells remodel themselves
Speaker:and start to proliferate
Speaker:and keep healthy.
Speaker:And it's based upon the water.
Speaker:So it ends up that fascia
Speaker:remodels based upon how the
Speaker:water is moving through the aqueducts.
Speaker:It's the water being
Speaker:displaced that actually
Speaker:lights up and pushes and
Speaker:pressurizes the cell to
Speaker:make it want to either
Speaker:you know, be discarded or reinstated.
Speaker:So we can do a lot of our
Speaker:cellular remodeling and
Speaker:it's through movement.
Speaker:So it translated and I was really happy.
Speaker:So you can find us online
Speaker:doing just videos that are very,
Speaker:like we have learned videos
Speaker:that will teach you all the principles.
Speaker:It will teach you how to be
Speaker:your practitioner.
Speaker:I'm really passionate about
Speaker:education because I think that the very
Speaker:foundation of transformation
Speaker:and change doesn't start
Speaker:just with the understanding,
Speaker:but with the action of what can I do?
Speaker:And most people can do like
Speaker:five really simple things
Speaker:that will immediately
Speaker:change the state of their fascia,
Speaker:the state of their body
Speaker:following generic laws.
Speaker:And so I want to educate
Speaker:people so that they can,
Speaker:even like one of the things
Speaker:that's really fun is that
Speaker:GST teaches you how to work
Speaker:with an acupuncturist.
Speaker:where you,
Speaker:while you're receiving treatment,
Speaker:will amplify the treatment
Speaker:by how you behave in your tissues.
Speaker:When you go to a chiropractor,
Speaker:you work with the chiropractor.
Speaker:So you almost become this
Speaker:partner in your health in a
Speaker:way that you're not being worked on,
Speaker:but you're being worked with.
Speaker:And I love when you can take
Speaker:that and be able to help
Speaker:share that because you want to amplify.
Speaker:Fascia gives you the
Speaker:accessibility to make all
Speaker:of your treatments,
Speaker:all of your modalities,
Speaker:whether it's a workout,
Speaker:whether it's your therapies,
Speaker:whether it's your psychologies,
Speaker:and it will actually infuse
Speaker:it and make those
Speaker:treatments more bioavailable.
Speaker:The healthier your fascia,
Speaker:the more bioavailable your
Speaker:other treatments become.
Speaker:And you would know this, I think,
Speaker:from your state as a pharmacist,
Speaker:the way that the medicines
Speaker:break down and how they
Speaker:affect into the tissues and
Speaker:distribute is really based
Speaker:upon the connection of
Speaker:parts and how they're
Speaker:delivered to the different
Speaker:organs and stuff.
Speaker:I don't know as much as you do,
Speaker:but that is set up by the
Speaker:tensegrity and the
Speaker:tensemetry of your
Speaker:connective tissue system.
Speaker:I'm going to explore that
Speaker:one because I'm big on
Speaker:bioavailability with
Speaker:nutrition and doing some
Speaker:really cool stuff with my nano emulsions.
Speaker:This is a whole other next level.
Speaker:How do you move this into that space?
Speaker:Is there a website that
Speaker:people can go to or do you
Speaker:want Instagram?
Speaker:Where do people find you?
Speaker:So I would suggest going to GST Body.
Speaker:That's what I do.
Speaker:That's the company.
Speaker:From there,
Speaker:there's a lot of different
Speaker:places to land.
Speaker:We have the online studio.
Speaker:We do programs where I
Speaker:actually work with you in regular.
Speaker:They're like kind of
Speaker:concierge care and we can
Speaker:deal with anything.
Speaker:I also collaborate with
Speaker:other doctors and
Speaker:professionals like yourself
Speaker:where I'll help people
Speaker:navigate their own journey.
Speaker:So come to GST Body.
Speaker:and poke around and then follow.
Speaker:We have Anna Rae.
Speaker:You spell my name.
Speaker:That's why it's hard for me
Speaker:to always give Anna Rae
Speaker:because it doesn't sound
Speaker:like it's spelled.
Speaker:It's A-N-N-A Ra-H-E, R-A-H-E,
Speaker:pronounced Rae,
Speaker:of GST is our Instagram and GST body.
Speaker:So you can come and get like
Speaker:body tips and all of that
Speaker:like good fascia care stuff
Speaker:from GST body and then
Speaker:you'll get lifestyle kind
Speaker:of hacks in the way that
Speaker:they integrate because one
Speaker:of the most profound ways
Speaker:that fascia asks us to
Speaker:reorient our relationship
Speaker:to self is that we always
Speaker:think about things and
Speaker:really like even our
Speaker:treatments even if they're
Speaker:integrated in mentality
Speaker:it's like I have a doctor
Speaker:for this I have an
Speaker:integrated I have an
Speaker:acupuncturist for this and
Speaker:fascia says stop thinking
Speaker:big block chunks don't you don't need
Speaker:your food in big block
Speaker:chunks and you shouldn't
Speaker:exercise and do your
Speaker:movement in big block chunks.
Speaker:And so it says,
Speaker:infuse me into your daily activity.
Speaker:And it actually wants like
Speaker:regular micro dosing of
Speaker:movement every thirty to
Speaker:forty five minutes.
Speaker:You find a way to make the
Speaker:world your jungle gym and
Speaker:you go out and this is some
Speaker:of the stuff I go over with you.
Speaker:It's like these really fun
Speaker:like ways to catch in
Speaker:because ninety percent of
Speaker:people have fascial dysfunction.
Speaker:It's because of our modern lives.
Speaker:It is because of our diet.
Speaker:It's because of the sitting primarily,
Speaker:which creates like glycogen deficiency.
Speaker:type activities,
Speaker:which is the same as what
Speaker:adrenal stress is doing.
Speaker:And so all of a sudden
Speaker:fashion wants you to like
Speaker:integrate it into your daily life.
Speaker:It's super easy and it feels
Speaker:so good that you start craving it.
Speaker:And so those are those,
Speaker:you can come and learn those things.
Speaker:I'm not being very clear in my,
Speaker:I should just have them say one place.
Speaker:No, it's good.
Speaker:You're on Instagram, gstbody.com, right?
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:GST body.
Speaker:And you're going to put
Speaker:these in the show notes,
Speaker:which would be gstbody.com.
Speaker:Cause I love what you said.
Speaker:And I want to,
Speaker:I want to clear it before we
Speaker:like wrap up here.
Speaker:It's like,
Speaker:it's really important.
Speaker:We've, we've, we've now there's,
Speaker:this is a whole next level
Speaker:way of why movement is, is important,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:Like I always say,
Speaker:sitting is the new smoking because it is,
Speaker:it's actually better for
Speaker:you to sit for too long,
Speaker:but this is a whole nother inter,
Speaker:it's not movement just to move.
Speaker:So I have a whole different
Speaker:way to talk about movement
Speaker:with my clients now and
Speaker:and have a great referral
Speaker:system because here I have
Speaker:a chronic pain patient and
Speaker:I'm doing compounding and
Speaker:wellness and all that.
Speaker:And it's like, great,
Speaker:we need to collaborate to
Speaker:send people to you or other
Speaker:places because it all fits into the pie.
Speaker:It does.
Speaker:Before we leave, you have a book coming.
Speaker:I want to talk to people.
Speaker:It's called Skin to Soul.
Speaker:Give us a little preview of
Speaker:that and maybe when it's coming out.
Speaker:Great.
Speaker:Hopefully, sometime in the early, I think,
Speaker:next year,
Speaker:it's written and it's getting ready.
Speaker:So it is just really walking
Speaker:people through the very beginning.
Speaker:I noticed that most people
Speaker:don't live embodied lives.
Speaker:And we basically live skin forward.
Speaker:And we never really jump into who we are.
Speaker:Fascia is your organ of body consciousness,
Speaker:the way the brain is the
Speaker:organ of mind consciousness.
Speaker:And they work together to
Speaker:really create a sense of
Speaker:self and who you are and
Speaker:what you are in the world.
Speaker:And so I start on this very basic,
Speaker:here's what fascia is,
Speaker:here's the physiology,
Speaker:here's why you should care,
Speaker:how it's related to your life,
Speaker:your health, your mental health,
Speaker:your plans for the future, your aging.
Speaker:And then we really go down
Speaker:into why fascia becomes
Speaker:significant as a way of understanding
Speaker:real biomechanics,
Speaker:I like to kind of borrow
Speaker:from the idea of movement,
Speaker:where it's like we don't
Speaker:really have life mechanics
Speaker:for how to handle life.
Speaker:And fascia has this really
Speaker:parallel line of I handle your loads,
Speaker:I metabolize them into freedom.
Speaker:and health.
Speaker:And if you apply these same
Speaker:principles to the stress
Speaker:loads of your life,
Speaker:the ways that you are being
Speaker:captive by the hardships
Speaker:that life is throwing at you,
Speaker:the struggles you have,
Speaker:you will find freedom and flow.
Speaker:And so it's kind of this
Speaker:beautiful poetises of
Speaker:fascist continuum of how it
Speaker:can revolutionize our health,
Speaker:our wellness, and our spiritual journey.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:I've learned so much today.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:This has been...
Speaker:We could go on and on.
Speaker:I totally have more things to do.
Speaker:But when that book comes,
Speaker:we'll do another episode
Speaker:just to highlight that so
Speaker:we can help support each
Speaker:other in those spaces.
Speaker:I think this was a very
Speaker:valuable lesson for me,
Speaker:especially learning about
Speaker:this in such a different way.
Speaker:different light so thank you
Speaker:for bringing this light to
Speaker:to us to the world and and
Speaker:it's so evident to see you
Speaker:and shine and how you're
Speaker:talking about this stuff
Speaker:like you are in your true
Speaker:essence you're in your true
Speaker:wholeness you you just look
Speaker:and feel like this is your
Speaker:zone of genius and you know
Speaker:it so it's so cool I can't
Speaker:wait to start diving in a
Speaker:little more on this subject
Speaker:And you call me anytime.
Speaker:I would love to chat with you.
Speaker:It sounds I didn't even get
Speaker:to know all that you do.
Speaker:I did a lot of research
Speaker:before I came on because I was like,
Speaker:what an interesting guy.
Speaker:This is so great.
Speaker:And I love that you're
Speaker:opening up this platform to
Speaker:people who just this is
Speaker:just another way to get
Speaker:through to the mission of
Speaker:like de-prescribing unnecessary medicines,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:Medications, not medicines,
Speaker:but like we can work in
Speaker:this like what you teach
Speaker:people is free or low cost, right?
Speaker:Once they learn these things,
Speaker:you just do it.
Speaker:Zero.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And that is the beauty of all this.
Speaker:It's like we have these innate things.
Speaker:Your body wants to do it.
Speaker:So Anna Rae, you are amazing.
Speaker:Thank you so much.
Speaker:You're welcome.
Speaker:Thank you for having me.
Speaker:You've been such a good,
Speaker:just a good guest.
Speaker:And I think this is just the beginning,
Speaker:not the end.
Speaker:We'll do more together.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:This is a wrap, everyone.
Speaker:Until then, stay well.
