How to Release Trapped Emotions in the Body | Healing Trauma

// 2023 CHANNEL UPDATE //

I’ve moved on from Mobility Mastery (self fascia release) in order to focus on teaching Kinetix, my method of root cause discovery for pain and dis-ease that involves partner fascia release as a “diagnostics” (and regeneration) tool. Kinetix is a complete scientific methodology that I teach to friends, partners and professionals alike inside The Kinetix Academy.

My other primary focus will be the launch and growth of a new podcast and Substack community called The Human Freedom Project.

// NEW CONTENT ON YOUTUBE //

Sometime in 2023 I will return to YouTube with HFP podcast episodes and content created to help you know and understand yourself as a whole organism made of body, soul and spirit. This content will feature the Kinetix methodology, pain science, fascia secrets I’ve learned from 15+ years in private practice, neuroscience and evolving beyond the brain, trauma and the body, and more! I’m excited to go on this new adventure with you.

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FASCIA RELEASE TECHNIQUES TO TRY:

Quads and quad hip flexor videos:

Inner thigh, adductor, IT Band videos:

Calf fascia release videos:

Lat technique video:

Chest release video:

Neck fascia release videos:

BODY BASED TRAUMA HEALING:

Fascia has its own memory bank separate from the brain, and remembers everything you’ve ever been through.

Fascia is the structured water substance that nerve impulses travel through, and neural pathways are ingrained into the fascia of your body.

So fascia is the perfect place to go if you want to find out what’s stuck in your body.
Fascia also plays a role in pain of all kinds, including chronic pain related to unhealed trauma. This is because fascia is designed to respond when we feel threatened in any way by contracting to protect us.

Fascia has been shown to thicken in the presence of prolonged fear.

For those of us with a history of trauma, this often translates to dense, thick fascia that acts like armor to protect us from a dangerous world. However, the result is that we live inside bodies that give us a lot of pain, because they weren’t designed to become this dense.

Dense fascia can break easier than supple fascia, and can cause pain of all kinds.

The healing process is one of disarmament. We have to be ready and willing to take the armor off and feel everything we’ve not wanted to feel until now.

To release emotions from your body using fascia release, just adapt any fascia release technique on this channel (or any one of your choosing) and instead of making your goal to release fascia, your goal is simply to FEEL what you feel.

Start by noticing and feeling SENSATIONS. Sensations are linked to emotions, and a lot easier to “find” than emotions.

Make sure to move SLOWLY.

Slow movement reveals sensations and emotions, while fast movement will hide them.
Try not to look for emotions. Instead, just feel what you feel with as much presence as you can. Become a hunter of sensation, of FEELINGS. Even (especially) the painful ones. The painful sensations are likely where the emotions live.

Notice if you or your body reacts to protect you from feeling anything painful. Those are your coping mechanisms, which are neural pathways that will kick in not just with fascia release but other areas of your life as well.

This isn’t a quick fix. This is a practice.

If you’re also in pain, then I recommend combining these deliberate slow movements and explorations with an intention to release fascia to help restore your body’s fluidity, balance and structural integrity.

Disclaimer: some links shared on this channel are affiliate links, which means I get a small commission (at no extra cost to you) when you buy through my link. This helps me continue making free videos. Thanks for your support!

Keywords: trauma in the body, healing trauma, how to release emotions from the body, how to release trapped emotions, somatic experiencing, mind body connection, trauma body, release trapped emotions, anxiety, chronic pain, fascia, fascia release, mindfulness, mental health, childhood trauma, trauma and the body, how to process emotions, dissociation, nervous system, nervous system rewiring, neural pathways, neuroplasticity

[ElishaCeleste]

Topics covered in these classes range from masterclasses on fascia and the nervous system to pain and its transformation, the 5 kinetic energies of our planet and the human organism, creating structured water in the body and healing trauma, to name a few.

[WhenLifeGiveYouLemon]

Having worked through the mental side of trauma through understanding I always felt stuck with the next step. For anyone in the same boat, absolutely jump on body work

It really was the missing link when it came to healing for me! Love to everyone on their healing journeys 💜

[winterlion]

This woman understands things. We all need to start listening to and utilizing these "alternative" therapies and treatments. I am currently on medical leave because of two herniated discs and a burst blood vessel next to my spinal cord. I am on week 4 of this and I am doing a little better but the first two weeks of this were hell and I got no help from 3 different doctors. I decided I would have to heal this on my own. So I have been doing my own physical therapy and stretching, and watching videos like this have really helped me. I know this video isn't for back injuries but the built up trauma in my body definitely contributed to my injury in the first place. I grew up in constant stress because of my parents and also was a marine for 4 years and went through other traumatic events in my life I was almost beaten to death with a baseball bat in a bad neighborhood in Chicago several years ago. Now that I am feeling a little better from my back injury these types of exercises have really helped me.

[viviannesinclaire]

Thank you Elisha. I've been listening to a lot of Gabor Mate's work on addiction and trauma lately. As a physician he concludes that ALL chronic illnesses come from childhood trauma - from emotions we were-are unable to process. The approach you describe in this video is so practical. What I love about it is, we can start from what we are feeling emotionally and see where it reveals itself in the body and meet it there OR start with the body and see what arises from the wisdom inherent in it. I experience this video as part of a great deepening of the work you've been evolving over the last decade or more. So needed now. Please keep it up! Love!

[marionjohnson]

Thank you for this. I was feeling icky but couldn’t place it. I did some fascia work with a roller just like you said and when I rolled on my belly over my hysterectomy scar, I thought about the surgery and my pregnancies and how alone I was during those times and as I rolled I sobbed and sobbed. I can only hope this helps with the emotional healing from those difficult events.

[brettpower]

I have been on this journey now for about 14 months. This works 100%. There may be kick back, but plant medicine has greatly helped me in this. It allows me to go much deeper into the feeling, body, and emotion. I have released so much trauma. I have now bought a massage table and give my wife and kids massages, and walk them through this process of releasing emotions/trauma.

[pennyholt]

This is great info. I went through abuse my entire life and a dog mauling. The anxiety, depression and pain and PTSD I've experienced is unreal 😢It makes sense why I have hurt not just emotionally, but physically. This is exactly what I need, thank you 😊

[ElishaCeleste]

If you're willing to fully FEEL the sensations in your body, the FEELINGS that live there...you can release emotions from your body without needing to have an "emotional release" (though the emotions may come up and out while you do this). Of course, there are lots of ways to release emotions and memories from the body. Fascia release offers a really tangible, visceral way for people who are more kinesthetic and body oriented. Let me know if this is resonating with you (or not). I'm always listening and want my content to serve you 💛

[pocahontas]

I've been doing the emotional and mental part of healing the last 6 years and recently discovered that my body still has the memory

[charlie]

Excellent. We try everything to direct our feelings and control them, but what we don’t do is let the feelings be. Yes it’s painful, but not as painful as suppressing feelings over a life time..

[Deanhalpin]

I’ve been disassociating for about 8 months now due to unhealed trauma from my military experience at 17 and I’ve just been non stop these last 4 years.. I’m hoping with the help of body work as well as psychotherapy that I can finally find myself again! Thanks for the videos and any additional tips would help! :)

[Samtastic]

Just spent 20 mins with foam roller on one calf. Feeling the pain sensations. Noticing my tendency to screw my face up and close my eyes in ‘self-defence’. Also to hold my breath. Simple intention now- don’t tense up, don’t try and hide ( eyes closed). Just breathe and feel in a relaxed way ❤

[ukpeanutartist]

This was the best way for me to release stored emotions!!!! I rolled on a massage ball listening to meditation music for 1.5 hrs and I felt a lot lighter. My head was clear and my body feel so light. I was exhausted as if I came in from running. I had no idea that pushing through the pain would make me feel this way. Thank you for doing this video. I now have a tool that works for me.

[mindinversions]

Having had a CPTSD break over my last job, I've managed to turn my gaze inward and begin to follow a less egocentric existence. I'm three months into my NEW lifelong journey, and I just wanted to share that it was sheer idiosynrcacy that brought me here, exactly where I needed to be, as I struggle with releasing my emotions against a co-worker that hit a little to close to my last flame out.
Unfelt negative emotion causes stress, generates cortisol, locks up the muscles.... explains the knot in my shoulder the last 3 or 4 days. Or to simplify, "Mind/body connection". I may look at it a little differently, but we do what we must for healing and perception. Thank you Elisha, you have touched my life in a positive way. I will do my best to pay it forward : )

[ginarenee]

I have read the book The Body Keeps the Score. There is a section devoted to how yoga can relieve CPTSD symptoms and heal our nervous system as dramatically as EMDR.

Thank you for your work in this area! I appreciate this video.

[pesthlm]

Hi Elisha! So interesting to hear about your knowledge on this subject. As a parallel, I would like to share what I have been through; so here's a very short and very simplified story from my life. For 40 years I suffered from severe stuttering and in addition to this I had eczema all over my body. Social wreck that I was, I didn't function in society. But after all, I found my great love in a woman and subsequently wished that I could be "cured" of my ailments. Apart from therapies I had already tried and nothing worked, I found a man who practiced liberating breathing (also called "rebirthing") on me. As said; my story here is very very short, I could easily write pages up and pages down about this - but - I became 100% healthy and have now been completely healthy for almost 17 years. I had trauma within me (blockages) but nothing that I could identify stemming from my own life. It didn't matter either, what dissolved did just that, dissolved. I also became religious after this. A fantastic trip I made, I can promise. Now I can (jokingly) talk anyone to death instead and no eczema is on my body.

[morob]

this video is so valuable and has truly set me free—i just found it so i’m definitely going to binge more. the process of feeling sensations has been weird and definitely disassociated my mind and body, but i’m willing to do it more everyday because I know there are definitely stuck emotions hidden from me. Thank you for all that you do! This should be taught to everyone from young ages and integrated into daily life—it could solve so many issues that all stem from the body/mind.

[alanfrancis]

Vipassana meditation is based on sensing sensations. We usually are not consciously aware of our sensation, but they are there. Past programming or patterns ( trauma- complexes) are held in the body. As we scan the body in meditation and accept the sensations as they are, they rise stay for a while and change. The changes come in energy release. By not doing this past sensations ( pain and pleasure) control our current behaviour. All addictions are caused by our past stuck energy. The more we release the past sensation ( accepting them as they are) the old stock come to the surface. This is meditation with intension to heal. Awareness and equanimity are key to this process.

[ET-zder]

This is so fascinating, please continue to bring more of this info 🙏

[bruceinoregon]

Your explanations and approach greatly resonate with me. In Eugene Gendlin's psychotheraputic process of "Focusing", a fundamental part of that process is attempting to access what he calls the "felt sense" inside you.
"A felt sense is not a mental experience but a physical one. Physical. A bodily awareness of a situation or person or event. An internal aura that encompasses everything you feel and know about the given subject at a given time—encompasses it and communicates it to you all at once rather than detail by detail".
Wow, you have uncloaked things that had previously seemed to me to be somewhat mysterious about Dr. Gendlin's concept of felt sense!
Thank you so much!