There are mentors you actively seek out… and then there are mentors who arrive quietly, as if placed on your path at the exact moment you’re ready. I can’t remember how Block Therapy first entered my awareness, but I know this: once it arrived, I knew I’d never be without it.
How Block Therapy First Entered My Life
My first encounter was simple—almost too simple. In December 2023, I dipped into Block Therapy’s sampler program and used nothing more than a rolled-up towel. Even then, I felt something shifting. My breath deepened, my mind quieted, and there was a sense of melting within my body that I hadn’t experienced before.
In June 2026, I upgraded to the Starter Program with the Block Buddy. Now, having worked extensively with both the Block Buddy and the Block Baby, I tell everyone: start with both blocks if you can. Their rounded edges, intentional density, and the way they meet your fascia with grounded pressure is transformational. From the crown of my head to the bottoms of my feet, these tools give me access to places in my body I didn’t even know were frozen.
The Two Rules That Shifted Everything
I fell in love with the two foundational rules of Block Therapy:
- Your breath is your guide.
- Allow at least three minutes to melt.
These two teachings are deceptively simple. But the real magic is how they draw you inward—into presence, into truth, into sensation. They remind you that you are capable of meeting discomfort without collapsing into fear. They help you discover that what feels overwhelming at first often becomes bearable when met with relaxed, conscious breathing.
I learned that if I cannot maintain a relaxed breath, I need to back off. Not to quit—just soften. This is the opposite of the “push harder” mindset so many of us were taught. Block Therapy works because it partners with your nervous system, not against it. Three minutes is enough time to melt, unravel, and release—often things you didn’t even realize you were bracing against.
Where Trauma Lives in the Body
We hold energy, emotion, memory, pain, and trauma throughout our fascia—our connective tissue. Daily life creates patterns that slowly pull us out of alignment. Think of years sitting at a school desk, twisting your spine to write, leaning your head into one hand, or carrying backpacks and purses on the same shoulder. All of it becomes part of your body’s “story.”
I used to believe that my baby toes riding up on the fourth toe were simply a familial quirk I had to accept. But Block Therapy helped me see that even this pattern influenced everything up the chain—my knees, hips, spine, and even my headaches. Who knows? Maybe the childhood migraines I endured were partly related to the way my feet met the earth.
Using a Physical Block to Release Inner Blocks
One of the things I love most is the symbolism of the block itself. As Michael Singer teaches us: relax, surrender, release. Block Therapy turns that teaching into a full-body meditation. You literally lean into your discomfort with conscious breath to soften and dissolve the inner “blocks” you’ve held for decades.
Pain becomes a messenger—not something to silence with medication, but a signal from your cells: “Something needs attention here.”
Instead of pushing it away, you lean in with breath, patience, and compassion. And in doing so, your body begins to trust you again.
What Block Therapy Has Helped Me Heal
This practice has supported every layer of my healing:
- Jaw and facial structure: It has helped realign my oral posture, jaw, teeth, and facial balance.
- Digestive and abdominal fascia: Regular belly-button decompressions have released decades of adhesions and improved my digestion and elimination.
- Feet and grounding: Strengthening my toes has changed how I walk, stand, and connect to the earth.
- Hip and shoulder pain: No longer something I “just live with”—now I meet these sensations with breath, time, and presence.
- Whole-body flexibility: As I unwind fascia, I become more open, more fluid, more spacious inside myself.
I am not the same person who first lay on a rolled towel. And my body is no longer the body I once believed was simply “how I am.” This work helped me release patterns I didn’t even know I was holding—patterns I once accepted as normal.
The Teachings from Deanna That Stay With Me
Deanna Hansen has a gift for meeting people exactly where they are. Her guidance—shared generously in Q&A sessions and in the Block Therapy community—is compassionate, grounded, and wise.
Her library of classes is a treasure trove of meditative movement that unlocks hidden tensions and allows your system to return to flow. She teaches that:
The body remembers everything—and it can also release everything.
This is the heart of her work. And it’s one of the most liberating truths I’ve ever encountered.
The Practices I Continue to Use Today
Some mentors leave you with ideas. Deanna leaves you with practices—ones you can return to for the rest of your life.
- Daily belly-button decompression
- Regular Block Buddy and Block Baby sequences
- Releasing the bottoms of my feet to reset the entire chain of posture
- Three-minute melts for emotional and physical stress
- Breath awareness as the anchor for everything
These practices are not “extra.” They have become foundational—woven into my personal healing and the way I support others in my work at Reclaim Reconnect Renew.
How Deanna’s Influence Shaped My Healing, My Work, and My Way of Being
This fascia-based healing has become one of the core pillars of my life. It’s deepened my understanding of trauma, embodiment, safety, and resilience. It’s taught me to approach my body as a partner rather than a problem. And it’s helped me guide my clients—especially women navigating midlife, autoimmune conditions, grief, and loss—into a gentler, more empowered relationship with their bodies.
Block Therapy helped me reclaim the parts of myself that had been frozen by trauma. And in many ways, it became another one of the mentors walking with me into my own healing.
Reflections & Journal Prompts
To help you explore your own circle of influences, here are some invitations:
- Where do I notice chronic tension or pain in my body—and what might it be trying to tell me?
- What sensations do I usually try to avoid, and why?
- What would it feel like to lean into discomfort with breath instead of fear?
- Who are the mentors—known or unknown—who have helped me return to myself?
- What practices help me melt the “frozen places” in my body, mind, or heart?
Your body is always communicating. And the moment you choose to listen, everything begins to shift.
A Closing Note of Gratitude
To Deanna Hansen: thank you for illuminating the wisdom within fascia, for trusting the body’s intelligence, and for teaching the world that melting frozen trauma is not only possible—it is profoundly empowering. Learn more about Block Therapy https://blocktherapy.com/
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