Fascial Theraymi

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5815216656/in/photostream

Welcome to Fascial Therapy at The Motion Room the latest service available at my favourite facility. Everything you need to know about FT can be gleaned from stretchtowin.com where it’s going, what it’s all about, in case you can’t follow along the raymi filtration system of verbal jargon and confusion.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5814650653/in/photostream/

my legs are dead here. dead weight. you must let go and let the trainer take over. allowing an external force to stretch for you is kind of a wild experience, separating your brain from your body and giving in. if you’re an over-thinker like me you must chill out. it feels awesome to let someone else jiggle your legs up and down for you, you feel it in your hips and lower back (butt) it’s a nice release. it requires trust, like a trust fall.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5815222052/in/photostream/

and learn to breathe, inhale push, exhale relax (dead weight) and then when you’re being touched all over (it gets personal) if you’re blushing or trying to act cool as a cucumber when you’re supposed to be inhaling and pushing, the simplest of duties (breathing) while lying on your back can become difficult, from that over-thinking again and from the maturity level of a third grader and blushing. while being photographed. ha.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5815224348/in/photostream/

inhaling and ninety degrees later i am on easy street. you’re already coasting on a post work-out high and this just pushes you right over into happy town.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5814659123/in/photostream/

your masseur speaks to you throughout in a calming tone that relaxes you instantly and gets right in there with you so your comfort zone is broken down right off the bat. good technique, totally works. i have never had a real massage before ever, ever. i have touching issues and am not at the point yet where i feel i need a massage even though i totally do cos i’m high-strung and a total bitch when stressed out.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5814661725/in/photostream/

tyler walks in and is all hmm, it’s like thai stretching. i go i don’t even want to KNOW how you know what thai stretching is he goes raymi, i’ve been around. ugh i need to be rich like yesterday.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5815232404/in/photostream/

when your legs go into all these different positions you never bothered stretching in before (why would you it’s kind of bizarre to have your leg at 90 degrees and then best to the side at the knee like you were in a bike accident) you can feel each precise stretch, or lengthening of joints, things get loosened up and you become more aware of your muscles and your posture improves, all that tightening up melts away, you feel extended. you should always be aware of your posture (someone is always looking).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5815234500/in/photostream/

she won’t push/pull your body more than it is capable but will definitely bring it right to the limit and that’s where the work begins and the tightness goes away and that limit you couldn’t range of motion passed before, you will pass it. it’s amazing. oh and if you enjoy bones cracking/clicking from stretching, you are in luck.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5814668501/in/photostream/

your weight of leg i supposed to be dead here but i misinterpreted her direction and instead tried to crush her between my thighs kash goes i know your leg isn’t that heavy raymi, i go oh sorry i was trying to crush you sorry. i can tell kash is majorly athletic so the competitive part of my brain takes over sometimes hahaha.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5814670267/in/photostream/

pushing from my butt and outer side of my leg.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5814672129/in/photostream/

everyone should do this. once you pass 30 you have to keep working out to ensure bone growth and ward off osteoporosis. i am going to be lance friggin’ armstrong come thirty.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5814674125/in/photostream/

breathing-focused.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5815243774/in/photostream/

see how my right leg is in the strap? it’s so you stay strapped in duhhhsville.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5814679729/in/photostream/

this could be you!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5814687231/in/photostream/

nap time.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5814689133/in/photostream/

thank you so much, kash.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5815260606/in/photostream/

i like all of her fitness clothing. she has the cutest duds.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymilauren/5815263968/in/photostream/

do you think she could take me? it would be fun to watch i’m sure. come get your own stretch and get taller, tall as meeee at TMR there’ll be a deal coming up soon i’ll tell you about. xoxoxo.

man down from raymi lauren on Vimeo.

this song is now over. only took a month, less than, to be sickened by it. this video is now properly synced, youtube speeds up all photobooth material ridiculously fast. vimeo is the answer.