Full Transcript Introduction to Fascia and Cancer Support 0:00 Well, I'm so excited. 0:01 I have my dear friend Deanna Hansen with me today, and we're going to get into 0:05 something that is, I think is crucial for every cancer patient. 0:10 And we're going to dispel some myths. 0:12 We're going to and we're going to kind of break open people up. 0:17 So Deanna, thank you so much for being here. 0:19 And we're going to I know we're going to show 0:20 some cool techniques that people can use at home. 0:23 Oh, thank you doctor K for having me. 0:25 I'm so excited to be here. 0:26 This is such an important topic and having you to bounce things 0:30 back and forth with. 0:30 It's such a great approach to really discussing fascia 0:33 and how we can open up the body and really support 0:36 proper lymphatic drainage to detoxify. 0:38 So I think the best thing is if I just share, I've got some great photos 0:42 and that just speaks volumes when we're talking about the fascist system. 0:46 So I'm just going to go and share my screen right now. 0:50 And this is so important. 0:51 I want the audience to recognize, you know, the way I view 0:54 cancer is that cancer essentially creates all this fibrotic tissue 0:58 and create these tumor microenvironment where that's inflammatory. 1:03 You have toxic build up, you have lack of oxygen, 1:06 you have lack of nutrients getting into that tissue. 1:09 So we can kind of break that open and then allow these new tends to go there. 1:14 We're going to reduce inflammation, reduce the toxic load. 1:17 And then the healthy cells are going to flourish. 1:20 And the cancer cells 1:22 are not going to live in an environment that they want to live in. 1:25 So as I just want to kind of lay that foundation. 1:28 So yeah, look, look at that. There you are. 1:31 Here I am. 1:32 So the before photo is me and my 20s. 1:35 And that was when I was in athletic therapy training. 1:38 I live in Canada. 1:39 Athletic therapy is like physiotherapy but focused on a lead athletes. 1:43 I was doing the work. 1:44 I was I was working out like crazy in the gym, running Tebow, lifting weights. 1:50 And the challenge for me was the harder that I was pushing my body, 1:53 the more compressed, the more ballooned and the more toxic I became. 1:57 I was constipated, I was just like I was ashamed of everything about myself. 2:03 And I also felt like a failure because I was working so hard 2:06 to get results and I was getting results, just not in the right direction. 2:10 The after photo of me, I'm 50 years old there. 2:12 I'm 57 now, but what was so impactful for me at that time was 2:16 I really had no concept of a what the fascia was back then, or really 2:21 about proper conscious diaphragmatic breathing, which really is 2:24 the foundation of what I learned is so important for overall health.
Deanna Hansenu2019s Personal Fascia Journey 2:29 So I was having severe anxiety attacks, and it was this one 2:34 attack in particular that really taught me how to move forward with this work. 2:39 In that moment, I actually thought I was going to die. 2:41 I was so locked in fear in my breath. 2:43 For some reason, 2:44 I intuitively dove my hand into my belly, which I never touched before 2:48 because that's where I carried so much of my shape. 2:51 There was a lot of shame there. 2:52 So now I have pressure in this space, and the first thing that happened 2:56 was I became calm. 2:58 And then I started working with my hands intuitively in that area, 3:02 and I felt it was marbled with what felt like scar tissue, 3:05 even though I hadn't had any injury or surgery in that area. 3:09 Suddenly I had all these moments like, no wonder when I'm working out 3:12 like crazy, dripping wet was sweat. 3:14 My belly would still feel cold. 3:16 After the first couple of weeks of working, my low back pain was going away. 3:21 My neck pain was improving. 3:22 Within two days my belly was looking smaller. 3:26 But more importantly, I felt hopeful because I finally felt like 3:29 I had some control over this body that never made any sense to me. 3:34 And that was really the beginning of my journey. 3:36 And then I started working on my patients in a similar manner, 3:39 and I started having some incredible benefits with them. 3:42 So that was 26 years ago, and now it's 3:45 turned into this whole other understanding of fascia. 3:49 And what we really want to do 3:50 is understand the components of fascia and why they matter. 3:54 There's many components, but two major proteins collagen and elastin. 3:59 And when these proteins are in balance, it supports proper cell alignment, 4:04 which allows optimal space in and around the cell for ease of nutrients 4:09 in, as well as the removal of toxins, debris and waste. 4:12 What happens though, if we don't have proper balance in the body 4:15 and none of us do because we're under the force of gravity, 4:19 we're dominant on one side, 4:20 and we're not really conscious of how we use our bodies over our lifetime. 4:24 So what happens is these collagen proteins, 4:27 they start to migrate to areas of need. 4:30 So I just want to show down here in this before photo, if you can notice 4:34 the front of her ankles, how thick they've become. 4:38 This creates a forward held alignment 4:42 that basically so we don't tip over. 4:45 We have a buildup of adhesions throughout the body and these adhesions. 4:49 You can see the thickness here in her thighs. 4:51 You can see the bloat of the belly, the forward alignment of the shoulders 4:55 through here which are blocking the major lymphatic flow. 4:58 These adhesions will grip to everything in their pathway, including bone, 5:02 with a force of up to 2,000 5:03 pounds per square inch, locking us in these negative alignments. 5:07 So my work fascia decompression is taking the body in the opposite 5:11 direction to what time has done so that we can reestablish the breath, 5:16 get the lymphatic system flowing, and bring our posture 5:19 to correct alignment so that we can support optimal cell space. 5:23 We can see in the after photo the difference in the ankle, 5:27 how much cleaner it is, how much more aligned her pelvis is. 5:31 The tissue looks cleaner, the rib cage has lifted, 5:35 she's released a lot of congestion in her head and neck. 5:39 And again in this after photo to see such 5:42 a dramatic change in only 30 days. 5:45 How her back looks. 5:46 We've aligned her pelvis now and that's important. 5:49 So we can really optimize proper diaphragmatic breathing. 5:52 And you can really see it on the side photo here. 5:55 So most people will think this is excess fat, 5:58 but really it's compression compression ballooning. 6:01 And then the body becomes toxic because it's not removing the waist effectively 6:06 and then delivering oxygen to the cells, which of course for people with cancer, 6:11 that's one of the most important things 6:13 we need to do is make sure that the environment is oxygenated. 6:17 Doctor K, is there anything you want to talk about here? 6:19 No. So I mean, and this this is exactly the issue 6:22 that happens in cancer is that, you know, what what 6:25 what cancer likes to do is that it it likes to set up an environment. 6:30 It's very hyper coagulated. 6:32 You know, it has all this fibrin and it becomes very fibrotic. 6:36 And so and that allows them to kind of shield itself 6:41 from the immune system and also create an environment 6:44 that supports its own existence. 6:46 So if we allow that to continue and we don't open up that flow, 6:51 then the lymph is not able to move the toxins out. 6:55 And like I mentioned earlier, the nutrients that we need to feed 6:58 that tissue is going to be it's not going to get to where it needs to go. 7:03 And and now we are then the cells. 7:05 And because it's not getting the nutrients, not getting the oxygen 7:09 and toxins are building up in that tissue and, and cancers walling off 7:14 areas for its own existence by creating a little bit neighborhoods in the ghetto. 7:18 So to say, you know, that this is Chinatown 7:21 and this is, you know, Little Italy and and I, I don't know. 7:25 Doesn't or here say, 7:27 you know, so you have all these different they create their own community there. 7:31 So what we need to do is that we need to break that open and
How Fascia Decompression Improves Flow 7:36 allow them the nutrients to get in there so that the cells don't have to shift 7:40 into that Warburg effect, where it's utilizing fermentation or sugar 7:44 versus the mitochondria burning energy the way it's supposed to. 7:48 So that's why this is so important to me. 7:51 And this is what I would love every cancer patients to do. 7:55 And so here's another example of what 30 days did. 7:58 And again, she was very forward in her alignment 8:01 and twisted and locked in at the feet. 8:05 And then again you can see the thickness in the quads. 8:08 You can see the blood of the belly, the forward alignment, 8:11 that internal rotation of the arms, which is basically making the organs 8:16 that, well, they're under immense stress because here is the diaphragm muscle. 8:20 And when it's working properly it moves down with the inhale it lifts 8:24 with the exhale. 8:25 Yet because of trauma 8:26 we reactively hold the breath which forces the upper chest breath. 8:30 But this keeps the body cold and sluggish in its systems. 8:37 When this muscle is working properly, the heart, 8:40 the lungs, the internal organs are getting a continual massage. 8:44 You can see the difference 8:45 in the alignment of her abdomen here because she's turned on this muscle. 8:49 And again, we actually they've proven in 2014 they did a TEDx 8:54 talk talking about how 84% of weight loss comes through proper exhalation. 8:59 And that took me back to when I was in my 20s. 9:02 And I'm working hard 9:03 and I'm dieting, yet I'm getting bigger because I wasn't breathing. 9:06 So that became such a fundamental understanding 9:10 for me of what we need to do in order to create a healthier body. 9:13 But also six times the oxygen is delivered to the cells 9:18 when breathing diaphragmatic, 9:20 not because we're pulling in 9:21 six times the air into the lungs, but we're pulling it to the base of the lungs, 9:25 where the majority of the oxygen receptor sites lies. 9:28 So there's greater oxygen absorption through proper diaphragmatic breathing. 9:32 And it's really about understanding our structure. 9:36 So you can see again on the side photo how she's lifted, how she's more aligned. 9:41 I love bringing people's attention to the front of the foot. 9:43 If we took the measurement from here to the tip of the toe, 9:47 comparing it to the after photo, she has more foot on the ground. 9:52 She's brought her center of gravity back to her heels. 9:55 This is aligning her pelvis, making sure that now the diaphragm has a container, 10:00 then it can actually move properly in to support 10:04 detoxification as well as oxygenation. 10:07 And then I did also just want to share a couple of these 21 day 10:10 before and afters with the face. 10:12 Because again you can really see the buildup of these adhesions. 10:16 All of the lines, the thickening. 10:18 This is impacting lymphatic flow as well. 10:21 This also signifies a forward head posture. 10:24 So the major lymphatic 10:25 drainage sites under the collarbones are getting compressed in 21 days. 10:29 To see such a dramatic change in the flow in her eyes, how they're set in her head. 10:35 She looks afraid in the before photo or in the after photo, 10:38 you can tell that her parasympathetic nervous system has been activated. 10:41 She looks more peaceful and calm, and that's what we need for the rest 10:46 and digest again 21 days when we have this forward collapse. 10:51 She doesn't have proper breath. 10:52 She's breathing so largely through here. 10:54 And again, there's all of this stress in the neck 10:58 affecting everything up to the head as well as below. 11:01 The heart and the lungs have been pushed 11:02 to the back of the body, instead of being positioned in better alignment. 11:06 So they're under stress. They can't do their job as well. 11:09 And this is just such a fantastic photo because it really, again, just shows 11:12 how sluggish her lymphatics are before the work is done. 11:15 You can even see the shape of her head has changed to support her brain. 11:21 So there's all these cool things that we can see in before and after photos. 11:25 And then the last picture is the thermography image, 11:27 where there's red and white, that's showing stagnancy. 11:30 And of course, this is right where the diaphragm is 11:32 also in the armpits, where the the lymph nodes are in that space. 11:36 And after only one month, to see a dramatic change like 11:39 this is really exciting. 11:41 So I'm going to stop sharing my screen now. 11:43 So those are just some visuals to give people a really good understanding 11:46 of what we want to do with this work and how efficient it is. 11:50 So I'm going to take us through five positions using a rolled up towel 11:54 so people can feel they can start to get their diaphragm 11:57 activated, as well as lifting the ribcage to again 12:01 promote that, that sense of lift and flow in the body. 12:05 So we're going to use a bath towel and I'm just going to show you how to 12:10 roll it up properly. Here 12:13 I am going 12:14 to fold a bath towel into four. 12:18 So you'll just take it. 12:19 You'll fold it in half and then fold it in half once again. 12:24 And then we want to roll it up nice and dense. 12:28 So the adhesions that travel through the body again 12:31 grip to everything in their pathway including bone. 12:35 So we need something dense to move into the body with pressure in order to be able 12:39 to get to those deeper adhesions that are impacting our overall alignment. 12:44 So we roll the towel up nice and tight. 12:46 And what's nice about this, there's only two rules with this work. 12:50 The first one is your breath is your guide. 12:52 As long as you're breathing in a relaxed way, 12:54 you're feeding and healing the tissue. 12:56 If we're doing something that's causing your breath to feel stressed, 13:00 that's your system saying, I don't like this right now. 13:03 It's too intense for me. 13:04 You can do this on a bed. 13:06 The nice thing with the towel is you can also take out some of the height 13:09 if you need. 13:10 So I'm just going to put this around. 13:13 The other rule is we stay in position for a minimum of three minutes 13:17 because we can't rush through melting. 13:19 And this is a slow restorative practice connecting your breath. 13:24 The breath. 13:25 When we turn it on, it heats the body from the inside out. 13:28 Pressure over time in an area heats the body from the outside. 13:33 The two together are beautiful at melting through the adhesions that have locked us 13:38 in this negative alignment so we can create that lift, 13:41 move out what no longer serves, including emotion, 13:45 and then again reestablish proper alignment. 13:48 So just two things before we begin. 13:50 If you're pregnant, 13:50 the first position do on your back instead of lying on the towel. 13:54 And then you'll just put a little 13:55 bit of pressure with your hands and you go through the breathing exercise. 13:59 Similarly, if you have any herniation, you can attempt it on the belly, 14:04 but if it doesn't feel appropriate again, just lying on your back 14:07 and then any position that doesn't feel right for you, just watch, 14:10 put that aside and we'll go into that at a later time. 14:13 So to begin, all we're going to do is lie right on the towel,
Towel-Based Breathing and Rib Release Techniques 14:20 right at the belly button, 14:22 and let's stay up on the elbows 14:26 and also bring your shoulders back and down 14:28 so you're not squishing up and around in the neck area. 14:33 And unless you can't breathe in and out 14:36 through the nose. 14:40 Now it's normal here 14:41 to feel pain, pressure, even a pulse. 14:45 As long as you can breathe in that relaxed way, that's fine. 14:49 And let's begin by focusing on the inhalation phase of the breath. 14:53 This teaches you where the breath should be coming from. 14:56 If you have been caught in 14:58 a trauma pattern for years, decades, or even your whole life, 15:02 that upper chest breath has been the dominant form of how you breathe. 15:06 So it can just take a little bit 15:07 to really teach your body where that natural breath should be coming from. 15:17 And if it 15:18 feels right for you, you can even close your eyes. 15:21 So you're not having any having any visual distraction. 15:25 We're not going to be moving here. 15:27 I just really want you to feel and sense what's going on 15:30 beneath the surface. 15:35 And let's even shift 15:36 your focus now to the exhalation phase of the breath. 15:39 Allow your body weight and gravity to do the work. 15:41 As the towel sinks nice and deeply 15:44 into the core. 15:52 And let's also exhale for a count of six. 15:55 Inhale for a count of four. 15:59 This turns on the parasympathetic nervous system 16:02 to prepare your body for the healing that's to come. 16:22 We'll spend about one more minute here. 16:42 And for the next few breaths. 16:44 After exhaling fully hold for 16:47 as long as you can before engaging the inhalation. 17:07 The deeper we can 17:08 allow the towel to sink into the core, 17:11 the more we open up this space, activate the diaphragm, 17:16 and also start to move out those toxins 17:20 that have been stuck and trapped in this area. 17:23 We'll take three more breaths here. 17:46 And when you're ready to come out of position, 17:48 just place your hands under your shoulders, 17:49 take a nice inhale and then slowly exhale 17:52 up and off. 18:00 Now we're going to do two positions on the left side. 18:03 Before we do, just take your left arm and go through a nice range of motion. 18:09 Just notice the range that you have but also the quality of that range. 18:13 Is it grinding. Is it clicking. 18:15 Just become aware and now do the same thing on the right side. 18:20 And we're going to 18:21 start on the left lower ribs here. 18:24 This is such an important area because when we start falling 18:27 into the core we end up getting stuck and locked in through here. 18:31 Now of course we have the aorta, 18:32 the main artery, leaving the heart positioned right here. 18:35 We've got the stomach organ. 18:36 So when we bind down like this we are basically taking 18:41 the structures and we're squeezing them and twisting them. 18:44 So now the heart has to work harder. 18:47 The stomach organ is getting compressed and displaced. 18:50 So the first position is the left lower ribs right below the left 18:54 breast for the ladies for the gentleman. Just feel these ribs. 18:56 And we're going to just have our body lying on the towel 19:00 very similar to that first position. 19:03 So as you get in, you can just take that right leg out to the side 19:06 and just allow your body to sink on to the towel. 19:11 And again, we'll stay up on the forearms here 19:15 and just take a 19:16 moment just to notice how it feels to have pressure on these ribs. 19:20 And let's connect now to that full exhale. 19:23 Feel the belly lifting up into the core space as though you're 19:27 squeezing the belly small with the exhale and relaxing 19:31 with the inhale. 19:40 And I'm going to take you through some movement, but always respect your breath. 19:45 It never serves to force the body. 19:47 So remember your breath is your guide here. 19:49 So with every exhale let's see if we can just lower the rib 19:53 cage a little bit closer to the floor. 20:06 And now place your right hand to the right side of the body. 20:09 Add a little pressure. 20:11 So now you're just going to roll to the outer portion of those lower ribs. 20:15 And you'll likely get to a point where you feel like there's a bit of a wall. 20:20 So we're just going to stay there for a moment. 20:25 And as you inhale see if you 20:27 can sense the ribs expanding where the towel is. 20:31 So we first want to bring the breath in through the belly and then direct it 20:35 right to where that towel is. 20:39 Think of pumping up a tire. 20:40 We're inflating this area that has been compressed and congested. 20:50 Now I'm going to take you a little deeper. 20:52 So let's connect to that left glute so that we lock the left hip onto the floor. 20:58 And then we're going to take the hands over to the left 21:01 and gently twist to the left. 21:05 The twisting action allows us to open up 21:08 those deeper layers to get to the adhesions that, again, 21:12 are holding you so strongly out of alignment. 21:26 You can even see 21:27 if you can lower the rib cage a little more toward the floor. 21:40 And maybe we can even deepen the twist. 21:55 We'll take three more slow exhales here. 21:58 Again exhale for that count of six. 22:00 Inhale for four. 22:19 And then let's slowly bring that upper body 22:23 back to that neutral alignment. 22:29 We'll take one more slow full exhale here. 22:36 And when it's time to come up and out 22:37 I want you to be really thoughtful so we don't just jump out of position. 22:41 Let's glace the hands under the shoulders. 22:43 Nice full inhale. 22:44 And then very slowly with the exhale 22:47 bring your body off the towel 22:51 and we'll come back to seated. 22:54 The next position 22:56 that we're going to do is the left upper side ribs. 22:59 So right at nipple height will be on our side. 23:02 I just want to explain why this is so important. 23:04 When we fall out of alignment, we end up with internal rotation of the arms. 23:08 And now the lymphatics in here become really blocked. 23:11 And we also get locked in this forward head neck 23:14 alignment which is impacting the lymphatic site right through here. 23:19 So we 23:20 are simply going to lie right in that position. 23:24 And you can rest your head in your hand to begin. 23:28 And then just take your top hand to your belly 23:30 so that we can make sure the breath is coming from that right place. 23:33 With the inhale, the belly becomes big. 23:36 With the exhale, we squeeze the belly small. 23:42 And this may be more than enough sensation for some of you, 23:45 but if you want to go a little deeper, I'm going to take my left 23:49 hand to the top of the mat, use my fingers to walk my arm away, 23:53 and then I'm just going to lean in 23:56 so my left outer breast is getting compressed. 24:00 That's what I want to sense here for the ladies. 24:04 Now I'm 24:04 going to take my top leg to the floor, straighten my bottom leg, 24:08 and I'm just going to lift my hip hop just to establish balance once again. 24:14 And then I'm going to take my left hand 24:16 and walk it over to the left. 24:29 To go even deeper. 24:30 You can come first onto the fingertips of that hand. 24:35 You can even lift that hand up. 24:37 But remember, your breath is your guide. And. 24:55 Take the hand back to the floor 24:57 and let's even walk it a little further to the left. 25:00 We'll take three more breaths here. 25:25 And then we'll walk the hand 25:27 back to the top of the mat. 25:30 Gently roll back over to your side. 25:34 And just for the last couple of breaths, let's just walk forward and backward. 25:40 Just sensing any change 25:41 that may have come for you. 25:52 And then lean into that top hand 25:54 and slowly exhale up and out of position. 25:59 And then let's just check in 26:01 with that shoulder alignment. 26:05 So if you feel you have greater range of motion 26:08 you also have a lighter area through here. 26:12 So now your lymphatics are going to be flowing better as well. 26:15 Now we're going to do the same two things on the other side. 26:17 Now on the right side we're going to be impacting the liver. 26:21 So many people have fatty liver disease. 26:23 This beautiful organ gets clogged with the fats. 26:27 Think of butter at room 26:28 temperature compared to when we heat it and it's liquid. 26:30 So if the the fats are clogging this 26:33 liver can't support detoxification. 26:37 So same thing right below the right breast for the ladies. 26:40 You can just feel this area here. 26:43 And now we'll do the same thing. 26:45 Gently place your 26:47 right lower ribs on the towel, 26:50 stay up on the elbows 26:53 and then just allow your body 26:56 to absorb the pressure. 27:04 With each exhale, you may be able to lower the rib cage 27:08 a little closer to the floor. 27:29 And then you can take that left hand to the left side of the body. 27:32 Add a little pressure 27:34 roll to those outer ribs until you feel that wall 27:39 where it becomes denser. 27:43 And then with the inhale, 27:44 let's see if we can sense the ribs expanding 27:48 with the inhale. 27:58 We're putting the space back into the body 28:01 that time has taken away. 28:12 Now connect to that 28:13 right glute to stabilize the hip to the floor. 28:16 And then we'll walk the upper body over to the right so that we are twisting.
Foot and Hand Release Practices 28:33 And from here, if you can 28:35 lower the rib cage a little more. 28:53 And maybe you can even twist 28:55 a little deeper. 29:16 So take the upper body back to neutral. 29:29 And remember, we're going to be very thoughtful 29:31 about coming out of this position. 29:33 Hands under the shoulders. Nice full inhale. 29:36 And then very slowly with the exhale 29:39 lift yourself up and off. 29:43 And then we'll go right into the right upper rib position. 29:47 So again nipple height. 29:53 Support your head in your hand. 29:55 Let's establish that proper breath. 29:59 Belly becomes big with the inhale. 30:00 We squeeze the belly smell with the exhale. 30:07 And if you choose 30:08 to go a little deeper, take the right hand to the top of the mat. 30:11 Use the fingers to walk the arm away 30:14 and then 30:15 start to lean in so you're compressing the right outer breast. 30:18 You can take your hand to the floor, same as the leg. 30:21 Straighten that bottom leg and just lift up again just to find a good 30:25 balance here. 30:37 To go deeper, 30:38 we can walk the arm over to the right, 30:43 opening up that armpit. 30:56 Melting 30:57 through these adhesions that have locked the shoulder blade 31:01 in negative alignment. 31:04 And to go deeper, we can come on to the fingertips 31:07 or even lift up that right hand off the floor. 31:30 And take the hand back to the floor. 31:33 Walk that right arm over to the right. 31:35 Three more breaths here. 31:56 And then walk the arm back. 32:00 Roll over onto your side. 32:04 And just a couple more breaths. 32:06 Just walk forward and backward, 32:09 sensing any changes. 32:15 And then when you're ready, lean into that top hand. 32:17 Slowly exhale back up to seated. 32:21 And then let's just check in with that right arm. 32:24 And notice if you've improved the range, which would be an indicator 32:29 that the adhesions that have locked the shoulder blades 32:32 in that negative alignment have freed up to some degree. 32:35 So we can lift up more, we can access a better diaphragmatic breath. 32:40 And we've opened up the lymphatics. 32:42 So that's just a little sampling of what 32:45 fascia decompression is all about with a towel. 32:50 I love that, I love that and that. 32:53 See, these are the kind of things we can take, all the supplements we want. 32:57 We can do the IVs that we want, but if we don't open up the body 33:02 so that things can flow where it needs to go, 33:05 and then toxic debris need can leave from the body, 33:09 then we're not going to achieve what we're wanting to achieve. 33:12 And it's fascinating looking at those photos. 33:15 You can see the before and after the before. 33:17 Essentially you're dealing with a with an inflamed body. 33:22 That's a lot of information when it's when tissue is not able to repair 33:26 toxic debris, is there. 33:28 All that information is going to be there. 33:30 And and cancer thrives on on inflammation. 33:33 So anything we can do to establish healthy physiology, healthy transport 33:39 of nutrients and oxygen, healthy transport of toxins, remove being removed. 33:44 And always love what you say when you say shot here. 33:47 Show the bone square pounds per square inch. 33:50 That's that's a lot of force. 33:53 And that's why like you're saying, you're almost needing 33:56 that a little bit higher pressure in order to be able 34:00 to kind of melt that away from, from the bones. 34:03 And for instance, you deal with prostate cancer, 34:06 colorectal cancer, you want to clean up that toxic debris 34:09 that's in the pelvic floor because we have the pelvic ball. 34:13 And we know that toxins tend to go with the gravity. 34:16 So just accumulates there. 34:18 So if we can open that up 34:20 or we have breast cancer or lung cancer and we have stagnation. 34:24 And these areas especially kind of the flow right here 34:27 from, from the breast, we can open that up and create an open that drainage. 34:32 So these toxins don't accumulate. 34:34 And the breast tissue that's the battle is more than halfway one. 34:39 And let's say you're dealing with glioblastoma or things 34:42 I mean you saw that the face structure, the difference in the face structure, 34:47 if we can open up that glimpse flow from the head, 34:52 and obviously if it's stagnated here, nothing is going to be able to drain down. 34:58 So if we can open this up, you know, bring oxygen in here, 35:02 then this can start to drain. 35:03 And now we're creating a completely different environment in our head. 35:08 And so obviously we were talking about cancer. 35:11 But for people that do not want to have cancer or preventative 35:15 or want to function optimally, how much better 35:18 are we going to do if we don't have a bunch of toxins in the head? 35:21 Are we going to think clear or going to be happier? 35:24 Are we going to see sunshine more often? 35:26 Yes we are. 35:27 So all of these. 35:29 There's a domino effect essentially, when we just allow things to drain 35:34 and we can take all these emphatic drainage herb supplements we can do. 35:38 Asprilla, Arco Burdock, you know, all these different herbs 35:43 that help chaparral poker route, whatever, and, you know, to help the drain. 35:46 But if we don't have it open up 35:48 with all these adhesions, then they're not going to be as effective. 35:52 So so thank you, Diana, for this. 35:54 This this is phenomenal. 35:56 Thank you. 35:56 May I share two more things that people can start with right away. 35:59 And I would love that I would love and that that's why I wanted to do this. 36:03 Because this I wanted people to leave with things. 36:07 They can start immediately. 36:09 And then obviously I want them to connect into your community as well 36:13 so that they can. 36:14 And because I feel that any cancer patient is going to do so much better 36:19 by utilizing benefiting from the work that you do. 36:22 So the two most important areas to release, of course, 36:26 we need to change all of this stuff, but the core is basically manipulated 36:31 by the limbs. 36:32 So the feet in the hands being the furthest from your engine. 36:36 This is where we get locked into those patterns that drive us down to the ground. 36:41 And that's why I was showing in the before photos 36:43 the adhesions in the front of the ankle. 36:45 So one of the best things that we can do and we can start with, no matter what 36:49 you're dealing with, is working between the toes, because the toes, 36:54 they're supposed to be there to help us balance and be mobile. 36:58 But so many people don't really have a connection to their toes. 37:02 So it's like they're walking on clubs and then the body ends up being braced 37:06 all the way up the chain, holding in that congestion stagnation. 37:10 So you can use a finger, you can use a pencil 37:14 or you can use a rope. 37:16 And what we want 37:17 to do is we want to put pressure between the webbing of each one of the toes. 37:22 Now, if you have the flexibility to reach, 37:25 you can use your finger and you want to feel it. 37:28 Just like how we were working here with pain, 37:31 we want to move into pain on purpose as your breath allows. 37:37 And then we start melting the adhesions between the toes. 37:41 And you want to work all the toes again to that point where you feel it. 37:44 So again finger pencil. 37:47 If you can do three minutes per toe, that is fantastic. 37:51 But even one minute is going to start to make a difference. 37:54 And then if you can't reach because of mobility issues, 37:58 using a cord or a rope, all you do is you place it between the toe, 38:03 and then you can just have a little bit of a tug 38:07 and so simple to do. 38:10 Now one other thing. 38:11 If you only had like three minutes, what you could do is 38:15 when you look at the feet, you want to be able to spread the toes. 38:18 You want all the toes to be nice and strong. 38:21 So if you end up having toes that don't spread where the other ones do, 38:25 those toes are basically not working on your behalf. 38:29 They've actually proven toes strength and longevity are directly connected. 38:34 So that's one thing you can start with. 38:36 And I have videos all over my YouTube channel about working 38:39 between the webbing between the toes. 38:41 Similarly with the hands, anatomical position is palms forward. 38:45 But again, because of this collapsing structure and internal rotation, people 38:50 are walking around with their palms facing the back of their body, 38:53 and then we get locked in at the hands here. 38:56 So working between the webbing of the fingers, we can do both hands at one time. 39:00 Here, have your hands around belly button height and just spread the thumb 39:04 and index finger to begin and push with equal pressure. 39:08 And again, if you can hold for three minutes, amazing. 39:12 Then you do the same thing between the index and middle finger, 39:15 then the third and the fourth finger. 39:18 This one always gets me the most. 39:20 And then between the fourth and the fifth, and once you finish the lightness, 39:24 it's like you've just let go of weight and the lightness that comes into your arms. 39:29 To allow this lifting and bringing the rib cage 39:32 into better alignment is amazing. 39:35 So if you make this a daily practice, that is going to help 39:39 release the anchors that have locked you in so that we can start 39:43 really making deep, profound changes through your entire structure. 39:51 Yeah, that's that's that's incredible. 39:54 And that's that's the thing.
Why Opening the Body Matters for Cancer Recovery 39:55 It's, you know, cancer is is about it's 39:59 a survival mechanism, essentially. 40:02 And the less safe we feel in the world, 40:06 the more we're going to be in that that sympathetic stress state, you know, 40:10 which is going to suppress immune system and also suppress 40:14 it's going to make us more inflamed. 40:16 So if we can feel safe in the world by by having a solid foundation 40:21 as you're walking, that in itself is going to then send signal to the brain, 40:25 which will then also send signal to the rest of the body that I'm okay. 40:29 Yeah, I'm going to be okay, and I can handle whatever is going on. 40:33 So this is just because 40:34 you mentioned prostate and this is a beautiful thing you can do. 40:38 You can sit on the floor. 40:40 You can also sit on a chair with this rolled up towel. 40:43 It is amazing. 40:44 After three minutes how your sit bones migrate. 40:48 How then you feel this fluidity in the pelvic floor. 40:52 And again that's the goal. 40:53 We don't want adhesions to create density and twisting. 40:57 We want to bring everything to be properly aligned and opened and spacious. 41:01 So such a simple thing to do with profound benefits in how you feel, how you move, 41:07 if you tie in the feet, do this, the fingers 41:11 and even just the belly position every day like you are again 41:15 starting to change the trajectory of how your body has been patterned in time 41:21 to start taking the time out of the tissue and put the space back. 41:26 And people 41:27 are always so concerned when you talk to you on colleges, 41:30 you know, or even massage therapists, you know, they're so afraid to 41:34 sometimes touch you because they're saying, I'm afraid that 41:38 it's going to spread the cancer and that's going to go out everywhere 41:41 in reality is that cancer is a systemic disease. 41:46 It is already systemically all over your body, 41:50 and your immune system is fighting it throughout your body. 41:54 And it beautifully has rotted together in one location 41:59 and walled it off instead of it being, you know, excessively or all over. 42:04 So if you can then change and the issue 42:07 where you then have the tumor accumulation 42:11 is that you have it's a very toxic area, like I mentioned before. 42:15 So if we can shift that environment 42:18 not and don't be afraid in regards to, 42:23 you know, that I'm going to let cancer cells go all over the place. 42:26 It's it's already the immune system needs access to that tissue. 42:31 And, and we need nutrients because it's not just cancer cells in that area. 42:36 It's healthy cells as well. 42:37 And we want to fortify them as much as possible to shift that environment. 42:42 So the best we can do is open up 42:46 those adhesions, you know, so muse system can get in there. 42:49 We can change that environment so that tissue can heal. 42:53 Because the more we close that up, the more it's like you're 42:57 kind of have some toxic matters just kind of festering 43:00 and gets older and older and worse and worse and kind of gradually grows. 43:03 So you got to shift that trajectory. 43:06 And by doing these kind of things where we're able to do that along, obviously 43:11 with eating right, you know, and thinking right, and all these other components. 43:16 But this is to me is such a core component to open up the flow throughout the body. 43:21 Because, again, I see cancer as a fibrotic, 43:25 dense tissue, and we need to open that up. 43:29 And when we do that, 43:30 we're then allowed we're able to shift that into healthy tissue instead. 43:34 So yeah, that thank you. 43:37 Thank you so much Deanna. 43:39 And and how can people I thank you have a little special 43:42 as well for the audience and how can people connect with you. 43:46 Yeah. 43:47 So if they want to download the free gift, it's basically 43:50 a nine part series using a rolled up towel. 43:53 Again, just to give you more of a sense of this work through the whole body. 43:56 And then if down 43:57 the road, you're so inclined to dive into the actual block therapy practice. 44:01 We use our tools that are made of wood because bone and wood are similar 44:05 in density. 44:06 So we get deeper with the actual tools and we literally work head to toe. 44:11 There's so much content in our starter program, 44:14 but block therapy.com is my website and I have a YouTube channel as well, 44:18 block therapy that has tons and tons of free information, free video, 44:23 really talking about again how to support your structure overall 44:27 so that we can move out what no longer serves 44:30 and bring in the great stuff that we want in this lifetime. 44:33 I love that. Well, yeah, thank you. 44:35 Thank you for your mission and in creating more fluidity in the world. 44:39 Thank you. 44:40 Thank you so much, doctor K. 44:41 It's been an absolute pleasure to be here with you in your community. 44:44 Always love it. Thanks.
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