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Jun 2024
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266 - Is Your Body Holding Chronic Stres...

Michelle Grosser - Inspired by Brene Brown, Mel Robbins & Rachel Hollis
About this episode

If you've been experiencing chronic pain or health issues and feel like you’ve tried everything without much success, it’s time for a deep dive into your body’s fascia.

Your body has an incredible system of spider web-like connective tissue called fascia. Through sensitive, fiber-optic-type communication, fascia is involved in and influences every other system and process in the human body.

For the past 20+ years, Anna Rahe has delved deep into a liberating and empowering relationship with fascia so that as many people as possible can invest in their health, restore their vitality, and heal themselves with the proprietary tools she has created. A

As the founder, CEO and educator of GST Body, Anna has spoken about holistic body care through fascia around the world, partnered with top athletes, surgeons, physicians and celebrities, and been featured in various publications, from Shape to Elle, Net-a-Porter to The Wall Street Journal.

On today’s podcast, Anna shares with us how our bodies are a “divining rod” pointing us to the roots of our bodily struggles. Her message of healing and vitality starts with us and how we can start healing ourselves with motion as medicine.

3 things you’ll learn in this episode:

  1. The science of fascia and why it’s vital for health and wellness
  2. How to harness motion as medicine
  3. Anna’s own story of overcoming pain, and the secrets of how she stays energetic and flexible even at 45 while balancing motherhood and full-time entrepreneurship


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