The Hidden Tissue Controlling Your Health & Mood | Heal Thy Self With Brooke McPoyle #379

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Heal Thy Self

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week Brooke McPoyle, a fascial educator and breathwork teacher, discusses the crucial role of fascia in overall health and well-being. The conversation explores fascia's impact on chronic pain, mood, brain fog, and chronic diseases, highlighting its often-overlooked importance. McPoyle explains fascia's structure and function, emphasizing the significance of hydration, movement, and breathwork for maintaining healthy fascia. The discussion delves into the effects of aging, modern footwear, and environmental factors on fascia, offering practical advice for improving fascial health through self-massage techniques (specifically, the "Fascial Flow" method), mindful breathing exercises, and conscious hydration with high-quality water. #fascia #relief #massage ==== Thank You To Our Sponsors! Timeline Go to timeline.com/DRG for 10% off your order! Puori Click here https://puori.com/drg and use code DRG for 20% off the already discounted subscription prices. Cornbread Hemp Use code DRG to save 30% off your order at cornbreadhemp.com/drg ==== Website: musicalbreathwork.com Instagram: @musicalbreathwork YouTube: Musical Breathwork Vicus Water: Discount code 15% Off: VICUSBROOKE Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Fascia, Breathwork, Body Awareness 03:25 - Fascia, Mood, Chronic Pain 09:12 - Fascia, Structure, Aging 16:00 - Foot Health & Tech Dangers 22:17 - Hyaluronic Acid & Water's Role 28:29 - Body Awareness & Inner Energy 34:53 - Breath Control for Athletes 41:08 - Breathwork, Fascia, Trauma 56:28 - Fascia Release Techniques 1:04:59 - Breathwork Course Offerings 1:13:15 - Body Awareness Workshop Be sure to like and subscribe to #HealThySelf Hosted by Doctor Christian Gonzalez N.D. Follow Doctor G on Instagram @doctor.gonzalez https://www.instagram.com/doctor.gonzalez/ Sign up for our newsletter! https://drchristiangonzalez.com/newsletter/

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0:00.0	Weak toes create a bad walking gate and a bad walking gate creates tension through the major fascia bands.
0:07.0	If I can, I run barefoot on the beach on soft earth.
0:10.0	If I have to run on pavement or I have to run on a machine, I run in Vratum shoes.
0:16.0	If you can separate your toes completely, that's pretty good toe dexterity. Most people can't get the pinky toe open or it's
0:24.2	unbalanced on one side or the other. So just a good simple fascia tension test is stretching the toes all
0:31.6	away and then seeing if you have symmetrical dexterity. You ever felt tension in your body that no stretch, no workout, no massage could ever really fix?
0:42.3	You ever wonder why some people feel off in their joints, their mood, even their clarity, without any obvious injury?
0:49.3	What if it's not your muscles? What if it's your fascia?
0:53.3	Today I'm joined by Brooke McPoyle.
0:55.0	She's a fascial educator, breathwork teacher and founder of musical breathwork.
1:00.0	Brooke Bridges, science, semantics, and spirit to truly help us unlock our flow in our bodies and the power in our voices.
1:07.0	Her work in fascia has transformed how people move, heal, and even feel.
1:12.0	I actually found her when I was scrolling on Instagram, just looking for some more information
1:15.3	on fascia. And instead, I found someone speaking about fascia with so much clarity, passion,
1:20.7	and depth. So what exactly is fascia? Can it hold trauma, affect your energy, your aging,
1:26.2	your emotional state? We're about to find out.
1:28.6	But first, take a second and come back to your body, maybe even close your eyes.
1:32.0	This conversation isn't just for your head.
1:35.0	It's for your whole system.
1:37.3	Let's dive in.
1:41.8	Thank you for joining this episode of Heal Thyself.
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