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Discover the hidden web of fascia — your body’s connective fabric — and how it holds the key to movement, balance, and healing.

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When Compensation Becomes a Cry for Help

Throughout life, your body absorbs traumas big and small.

  • A car accident.

  • A fall you “walked off.”

  • A stiff neck after sleeping in an odd position.

Each time, your body compensates: shifting posture, absorbing force, moving differently. Over time, these small adaptations layer on top of each other.

Until one day… you bend down to lift a bag, and your back “gives out.”
It isn’t that one stretch that caused it — it’s the accumulation of compensations. This is your body saying: “Enough.”

What affects your fascia, affects everything.

Fascia is your body's great connector: a living tissue network that surrounds and links muscles, bones, organs, and nerves.

When fascia becomes thickened, dehydrated, or stuck, it can:

  • Create lines of tension and misalignment

  • Restrict blood flow or nerve signals

  • Force surrounding muscles to overwork

Pain may surface far from its origin — because trauma in one area can ripple across your fascial web.

Trauma can “ripple” through your body.

Think of your fascia like a spider’s web.
Pull one corner — and the whole web shifts.

This is how tension and trauma spread through your body.

  • A fall on your pelvis may later result in neck pain.

  • An impact near the liver might show up as shoulder tension.

Your body is one continuous system — not isolated parts. And fascia is the thread that holds it all together.

 
" When one part of your body is weak or compromised, your entire structure responds to balance out the problem — just like a suspension bridge.”

— Bev Kosuljandic, Physiotherapist (MCSP, MCPA)
Tensegrity: the principle behind my approach.

Tensegrity is the principle that explains why your bones don’t simply stack like bricks — they float in a sea of soft tissue, held in place by tension in fascia and muscles.

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Your body carries your history. Sometimes the source of today’s pain is something from long ago. Tensegrity shows us how old damage affects balance across the whole body.”
— Robert Fong, Physiotherapist, Jericho Physio

This is why fascia work is so powerful. Instead of chasing symptoms, we look at your body as a whole—following the lines of tension, listening to the web, finding the real source of imbalance.

 Fascia remembers. Fascia adapts. Fascia can also release.

Janna Risch

Gentle fascia release and QHHT practitioner

I’d love to hear from you. Whether you have questions or you’re ready to book a session, this is your space to reach out.

LMT SC Lic.# 13058

QHHT Level 2 practitioner

ABMP

As seen in South Carolina Voyager

Serving Greenville SC and the Upstate community with gentle fascia release and QHHT healing sessions. Sessions by appointment in my private studio.

After booking, I’ll share directions to my studio and any details you may need.

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