Zurich, Switzerland & Worldwide (Online)
Fascial Maneuvers work with what stretching, massage, and exercise can't reach: the fascia holding your stress, your history, your bracing. Slow, breath-led, precise. Nothing forced.
A gift for you
A free 2-minute self-assessment: how much stress your body is holding, and how well you notice it before it becomes a crisis.
Take the Free AssessmentWhat becomes possible in your body
Ease in tissue that's felt hardened for years — without force, without analyzing it.
Sleep deeply. Wake up actually rested. Feel the difference in your body.
Decisions that come from clarity — not from an exhausted head.
Feeling at home in your own body again — not as an achievement, but as a natural state.
The practice
Fascial Maneuvers are slow, breath-led movements using pressure, rotation, and intention to help the body release stored tension. They work with fascia, an intelligent, gel-like substance that covers and connects everything in your body, weaving through muscles, organs, bones, and nerves into one continuous living network.
Fascia is one of your body's most important intelligence systems, a network that holds and processes an enormous amount of information. Science has found that the body-wide fascial network contains around 250 million nerve endings, more than the skin or the visual system, and conducts electrical signals through your entire system. It also holds the imprint of stress, emotion, and lived experience. Most approaches, stretching, massage, exercise, work at the surface. Fascial Maneuvers go deeper, reaching what those methods cannot.
When the right conditions are created (breath, attention, intentional pressure, time), stored tension releases on its own. Without force. Without analysis. Many people feel a shift after the first session; over weeks, deeper changes follow.
The body isn't broken. It's been waiting to be heard.
Certified Fascial Maneuvers Coach, Human Garage
Fascia is often described as connective tissue, but that undersells it. It's a continuous, three-dimensional web: one uninterrupted structure running from the base of your skull to the soles of your feet, wrapping every muscle, organ, and nerve along the way. When an area goes unused, guarded, or overwhelmed for long enough, the fascia there can thicken and lose its normal glide. That's the physical substrate of what we experience as "holding tension."
A typical session moves slowly through the areas your body indicates need attention, often the hips, shoulders, diaphragm, or jaw, though every body is different. Pressure is applied and held, breath is used to soften the nervous system's guard response, and small rotations invite the tissue to release rather than resist. There's rarely a dramatic moment. More often it's a slow unclenching: a breath that goes fuller, a joint that suddenly has more range, a wave of emotion that passes through and clears.
Sessions build on each other. The first often surfaces what's been held; the next few help the body find a new baseline instead of returning to the old one.
"The body doesn't need to be pushed. It needs to be heard."
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How to work together
A quiet, personalized space to listen to what your body is asking for. Your body speaks in sensations. Your emotions carry information. We don't force insight or outcomes. We create the conditions for your system to reorganize itself, at its own pace.
60 min online. No fixed agenda. You don't need to know what you want to work on beforehand. This is a personalized Fascial Maneuvers session.
CHF 200 online · CHF 250 in-person
"After the session, I noticed a level of ease and mobility in my hip that I hadn't felt in over two decades."
— Stefan K.Most first sessions start the same way: a few minutes talking about what's going on for you, if anything comes to mind. It's fine if nothing does. Then we move into the body. You'll be guided through breath and stillness while I begin applying slow pressure and rotation to areas that seem to be holding tension, adjusting entirely based on what your body shows in the moment.
There's no fixed sequence and no benchmark to hit. Some sessions are physically intense in one specific area; others move gently across the whole body. Many people feel something shift by the end: lighter, clearer, more here. Some need a session or two before the effect becomes obvious. Either way, nothing is expected of you except showing up as you are.
Live guided experiences for studios, teams, private groups, and special events. Release stress, reconnect with the body, and experience Fascial Maneuvers in a grounded setting.
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You can release a lot in a single 1:1 session. This journey is for those who'd rather do that release in community: to feel the power of doing this alongside others, and to grow inside of it. A 3-month nervous system reset: three weeks active, one week of integration (no call), showing up and releasing together, again and again, until steadiness starts to feel less like an effort and more like a baseline.
3 months · group coaching · 1 weekly 90-min call
Three weeks of active practice give your body room to actually rehearse releasing and settling, week after week, instead of visiting that state once and bracing again the next day. The integration week isn't a pause in the work, it's part of it: time for what's shifted to take root, without a new demand stacked on top of it right away.
It's held in a small group, so you're doing this alongside others who are also learning to listen to their own bodies, not doing it in isolation. Most people don't leave with one dramatic before-and-after. What tends to change is quieter: more capacity to meet daily demands without bracing against them first, and a steadier, more grounded presence underneath it all.
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Client testimonials
"After just one 1:1 session with Miriam, my feet felt lighter than they had in three years. After multiple surgeries, fusions, shockwave therapy, and physical therapy, I had nearly resigned myself to it staying that way. What surprised me was how quickly and clearly my body responded. If I hadn't experienced it myself, I would hardly have believed that much ease was still possible. I can wholeheartedly recommend working with Miriam."
"I began working with Miriam during a period when I felt disconnected and numb. She created a space that felt safe, steady, and deeply present, blending scientific understanding with embodied awareness in a way that allowed something to shift naturally. Over time, I found more clarity, self-trust, and ease in how I move through life. I feel more connected to myself and more grounded in my decisions. This work has stayed with me."
"Working with Miriam helped me reconnect with myself in a way I didn't know I was missing. Before, I was constantly in my head, overthinking, overdoing, and disconnected from what actually mattered to me. Through her steady, gentle presence and embodied approach, I began to reconnect with my body and emotions and to listen more clearly to myself. I now make decisions from a place of calm and clarity rather than fear. There's a sense of ease and relief I hadn't felt in a long time."
"I booked a 1:1 session with Miriam after years of carrying tension in my hips that never fully resolved. What stood out was how gently and precisely she guided the session. We didn't 'work on the problem'. Instead, she helped my body settle and respond in its own way. After the session, I noticed a level of ease and mobility in my hip that I hadn't felt in over two decades. The way I move, and the way I relate to my body, has changed."
About Miriam
My path into this work has not been linear. From environmental science to physical therapy, research, movement and breath, and coaching. I explored many ways of understanding the human body. Each step brought me closer to the same truth: the body holds more than we give it credit for.
Achievement can become a way to disconnect. The body always has the final word. Burnout slowed me down enough to listen. What I had labelled as weakness turned out to be wisdom. What I had tried to override was intelligence asking to be heard.
The order looks like a zigzag from the outside: environmental science, then physical therapy, then research, movement and breath work, and coaching. What actually connects it is a lifelong pull toward going deeper, and burnout is what finally forced the issue.
I'd been drawn to personal development and meditation since I was 15, so by the time I hit 30 I already had tools for working with my mind. What I didn't have yet was a way to work with the body itself. At 30 I was in the fittest shape of my life: mountain biking, ski touring, jogging, all of it. From the outside, nothing looked wrong. But I was pushing my body without listening to it, and I wasn't listening to the stress piling up around it either, mostly from work. Fitness had become another way to override, not a way to check in.
The body always has the final word. Mine eventually called it in: burnout. And even with years of meditation and personal development behind me, that burnout showed me there was still a layer I hadn't reached: emotions and energy aren't just concepts to think your way through. They live in the body, physically, and they need to be worked with there.
That's what pushed me toward breathwork, movement, and trauma-informed practice. What I had labelled as weakness turned out to be wisdom. What I had spent years trying to override was intelligence that had been asking to be heard the whole time.
Fascial Maneuvers, and the Human Garage certification behind it, is where that search led, after I was already working as an embodiment and somatic coach. Finding it wasn't an accident. It's the method that finally let everything I'd gathered: the mental tools from years of personal development, the science, the coaching, the breathwork, and what burnout had taught me about listening, working together in a single session, instead of living in separate specialties.
What I want to give people now is that same experience: proof, in your own body, of how intelligent you actually are once you slow down enough to let go of what's been stuck: stress, energy, emotion, sometimes carried for years, decades, even generations. That's not a metaphor to me. It's what this work is actually for.
Upcoming events
Fascial Maneuvers in the context of the Raum18 Autumn Festival. Live group sessions in a grounded, supportive setting. 1:1 sessions: 30 min for CHF 65 (Festival Special).
A guided 60-minute class at Raum 18, Stein am Rhein. Slow movement, conscious breath, pressure, rotation, and intention. No prior experience needed, no mat required.
Bring Fascial Maneuvers to your team, studio, or community. Fully customised to your group and context.
Before you book
Yes. There's nothing to prepare and nothing you need to already know about your body. The pace is set by you, not a script.
Slow, breath-led movement: pressure, rotation, and intention, guided by what your body is showing in the moment. No fixed agenda.
No. This work is a complement to, not a replacement for, professional medical or mental healthcare.
If you're curious and want a personal starting point, begin with a 1:1. If you'd rather try it in a room with others first, join an upcoming class.
Ready when you are
Whether you are curious, carrying something, or simply ready for a different kind of rest, this work is here for you.
