Dear Woman over 50,
are you busy beyond belief, exhausted, fed up, and burnt out? Wondering where the bliss you expected from this part of your life is hiding?
This self-paced course will guide you through simple, effective myofascial self-massage.
You’ll learn how to ease tension, restore vitality, release the grip of stress from your achievement-oriented life, and finally feel the aliveness of your body again!
You want to feel relaxed in this new chapter of life—grateful, energized, and at peace now that you should have more time for yourself. But instead, you just can’t slow down.Your body aches, your mind races, and the weight of your to-do list never lets up. No matter how much you do, it never feels like enough… and your body is screaming for relief.
From Stuck-in-Stress to Your Embodied Wild Woman Life is your invitation to step off the self-care hamster wheel and into true self-healing.
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You’ve spent your life pushing through, but now your body is pushing back
Up until now, your days have been spent solving problems, getting things done, taking care of everyone else.
But now, exhaustion has caught up to you.
You need a new solution, before the pain becomes chronic, the worry becomes habitual, and auto-immune issues overwhelm you.
does this sound familiar?
You’ve been going to yoga for years, but your body still feels stiff and sore the next day.
That expensive massage feels amazing… but the too familiar pain creeps back in by the next day.
You’re always exhausted – groggy in the morning, wired at night, fueled by coffee and wine.
Tension headaches, tight neck and shoulders, low-back spasms, stiff knees, and painful feet have become your constant companions.
It’s frustrating, demoralizing, and you’re ready for something different.
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Why is nothing working?
Smart, solution-seeking women like us can generally solve problems like the ones we face.
When we were young, our bodies and (more importantly) our nervous systems were resilient. We could shake off the stress; we could recover more quickly, and self-care strategies worked, more or less.
Now, our fascia – the whole-body system of connective tissue – has stiffened around weakened muscles.
We have been sitting in chairs for far too long.
Unfortunately, our nervous systems are accustomed to this stress load – it’s a new normal.
We don’t recover easily.
Our sleep is compromised.
These are deep and substantial insults to our bodies — and conventional self-care responds only to surface-level complaints.
Self-care offers a short-term, band aid approach.
You do a round of physical therapy and follow through with your homework, but that lingering shoulder or low back issue never quite disappears.
You take an online hypnosis course to calm your binge eating, but you are into the chips and ice cream two weeks later.
You switch to mushroom coffee and it seems to help, but the fatigue sneaks back into your late afternoon moments.
You look forward to your yoga class, but you find yourself pushing through the poses and reviewing your to-do list during the final resting moments of the session.
You need a new solution before the pain becomes chronic, the worry becomes habitual, and auto-immune issues overwhelm you.
What Self-Healing is
Many of us are stuck in self-care routines that no longer serve us. Self-healing invites you, through breath, rest, self-massage, strength, and women-centered connection, to heal from the inside out. It’s that simple, but most of us have never experienced it. Here is a taste of self-healing for you:
and How SElf-Healing Feels in a Single Moment
The best way to understand self-healing is to experience it for yourself. Let’s try something new right now — so you can feel what’s really going on underneath.
Are you reading this on your phone, or sitting at your computer? (Please, don’t do this while driving!)
You may not even realize how much tension you're holding.
Let’s pause and shift that awareness — just for a moment.
☀️ Look up from your screen — Gaze softly at something farther away, like a window or the trees outside. Let your eyes relax. This alone sends your nervous system a new message.
☀️ Soften your shoulders. Allow them to drop naturally.
☀️ Notice how you feel. If you don't feel much yet, that’s okay. This isn’t about forcing anything.
☀️ Place one hand on your heart. Keep your shoulders soft.
☀️ Inhale gently through your nose. Imagine the breath filling the space beneath your hand.
☀️ Exhale slowly through your nose. Feel your chest settle.
☀️ Repeat this breath two more times.
☀️ Notice again — has anything shifted? Perhaps, for a moment, a nagging pain abated or a cloud of worry lifted.
This small pause is the doorway into self-healing. You may believe that muscle tightness is your issue — but often, it’s your overworked, stressed nervous system sending distress signals into your body.
Your breath can soothe and unwind that stress — and as you breathe, you're also gently massaging those tight muscles from the inside out.
This is just the beginning of what self-healing feels like. Stay with me, and I’ll show you how much more is possible.
ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE YOU TO:
From Stuck-in-Stress to Your Embodied Wild Woman Life: How to Use Myo-Fascial Self-Massage for Self-Healing
The ONLY self-healing course created specifically for hardworking women over 50 who are ready to break free from ineffective self-care and step into true, full-body healing.
Grounded in my Body Vitality Method, this self-guided course moves you beyond the ineffective, repair-oriented self-care cycle of yoga, ‘anti-aging’, and quick fixes. Instead, you’ll learn powerful myofascial self-massage techniques to release tension, ease pain, and restore vitality in the key areas of your body.
If you are fed up with temporary solutions and ready for a lasting shift to a self-healing orientation, this course will introduce you to my Body Vitality Method and teach you how to reconnect with your body. Through these self-healing practices you’ll feel more alive and embrace your Fierce Over 50 era.
“I’m learning to take care of my whole body”
So many of my friends have back and neck problems. My friend’s back goes out and she can’t move. Then she goes to physical therapy or a chiropractor. A few months later—her back is out again. Whereas I’m learning to take care of my whole body and I’m growing more and more confident in how to take care of myself. I’m so thrilled!
— Laura Graham, 64, Ohio, in the FierceOver50 Gathering
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Step Into Your Fierce Over 50 Era
You’ve spent your life taking care of everything and everyone—now it’s time to care for yourself in a whole new way. This course isn't about anti-aging quick fixes. It’s about reclaiming your vitality through extraordinary self-healing practices for your mind and body.
Here’s how this course is different from anything else you’ve tried so far:
Designed
for Women
Over 50
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We baby boomers are made to feel invisible unless we are buying make-up, taking weight-loss supplements, or trying a new exercise program. This course meets you where you are with powerful, unique, self-healing tools to relieve stress, ease pain, and reconnect with your body.
Beyond Self-Care Quick Fixes
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Self-care marketers are selling you a bill of goods – telling you that time is running out. They are selling quick fixes that might feel good at the moment, but don’t work. Self-care strategies prey on surface-level pain by treating symptoms. Learning to use the key practices of my Body Vitality Method empowers you in accessing your own body’s ability to heal itself, so you can stop relying on ineffective and costly self-care bandaids.
Empowers You Through Self-Healing
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Your Fierce Over 50 Era begins with a powerful synthesis of self-healing strategies: We need to rest more, breathe more fully and effectively, learn how to massage our body’s fascia, get stronger, and connect through a sisterhood of women for support. You’ll learn how to do all of that (and more!) in this course.
Here are just a few lightbulb moments you’ll experience in this course:
As you move through From Stuck-in-Stress to Your Embodied Wild Woman Life, you’ll begin to experience powerful shifts in how you feel, move, and care for yourself.
✨Relief - I don’t have to feel like this: I can rest.
✨Calm - I know how to use my breath to quiet my mind and ease tension.
✨ Awareness - I can finally hear what my body is telling me - and respond with care.
✨Presence – I can reconnect to my breath when I notice I am stuck in stress.
✨Noticing - I can feel my whole body and let go of stress.
✨Relax - I can release the stress from my shoulders, low back, and feet.
✨Recovery - I know how to gently move out of a stress-binge-remorse cycle.
✨Movement – I have so many ways to move my body other than harsh exercise.
✨Self-Love – I appreciate and care for myself just because I am.
Why Trust Me? Because I’ve Been Exactly Where You Are
I’m AnnMerle — and I know how it feels to push through each day in a body weighed down by stress, exhaustion, and pain.
At 50, despite years of yoga and self-care, I was stuck. My shoulder froze up. Headaches ruled my days. A chronic condition haunted me. Nothing — no supplement, massage, or clean eating plan — touched the deeper layers of tension held in my body.
That breaking point became my turning point.
I dug deep, using my research skills and lived experience to find what truly works — not temporary fixes, but embodied practices that awaken your natural healing capacity (and that last).
I trained with some of the best and committed to integrating what I learned into a cohesive, powerful method for women like us.
My Body Vitality Method offers a comprehensive practice that shows you how to let go of repair mindset to a self-healing one.
Here’s why I’m uniquely equipped to guide you on this journey:
20+ years guiding hundreds of women over 50 toward body-centered, self-healing movement — in private sessions, group programs, and transformational online courses
Certified in myofascial self-massage with Jill Miller, a global leader in fascia, breathwork, and self-healing
Deeply trained in complementary somatic, breath, yogic, restorative, and spiritual modalities — from trauma-informed breathwork to women’s embodiment and mindfulness practices
Author of Fierce Over 50, where I share my story and reveal how women can quit fighting aging and reclaim their inner healer
Creator of the Body Vitality Method, a synthesis of five powerful pathways: deep rest, profound breathwork, myofascial self-massage, soul-centered strength, and women-centered connection
Let’s talk — a personal message from me to You!
In this introductory video from the Stuck-in-Stress course, I share — from my heart — what this course is really about, what you can expect, and how it can help you get off the self-care hamster wheel and intro true self-healing.
This journey starts with a simple decision to care for yourself in a new way.
Grab a cup of tea, get comfortable, and let’s talk.
“I absolutely love the breath work!”
Part of my practice is counting five big deep breaths, and I can make them extend a full minute, which just feels so good.
— Leticia, 58, Colorado
The Curriculum
Here’s how we’re going to begin our self-healing journey!
Day 1: preparing for your journey
I show you how to prepare fully and get the most from this experience.
Here You’ll learn:
How each session unfolds by setting intentions, experiencing a practice, and then integrating what you have learned
What props you need to participate
How to create a space that will enhance your practice
Day 2: Embodying Your Neck and Your Shoulders
You’ll get to know your neck and shoulders in an entirely new way.
Here You’ll learn:
How to release tension from your neck and shoulders
How you can strengthen a weak neck
How to develop a new relationship with your posture after leaning forward over your devices for so many years
Day 3: Embodying Your Breath and Your Core
We redefine “core strength” in a revolutionary, new way. You’ll never be the same after this section.
Here You’ll learn:
How learning to breathe with fuller and longer breaths can impact your upper back, your low back, your digestion, and can help you strengthen your core
How your breath helps you to relax during Yoga Nidra – a non-sleep, deep relaxation practice
How belly massage can improve digestion and reconnect you to your Vagus nerve, helping you to feel calmer and less stressed
Day 4: Embodying Your Hips and Psoas
Here we “undo” the results of sitting for decades.
Here You’ll learn:
How you can learn to gently open up tight hips in a body that has been sitting for far too long
How moving breath into your hips can help tone your Vagus nerve, which allows you to feel more calm and relaxed
How you can release the psoas, which holds onto fear and tightness, helping you to face daily challenges
Day 5: Embodying and Grounding Your Feet
Develop new ways of massaging your feet and appreciating their power.
Here You’ll learn:
How to massage your feet to bring energy and aliveness that supports your entire body
How your feet provide earth-based grounding that you can build on to energize you
How you can improve the mobility of the many muscles, tendons and bones in your feet
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Give Yourself the Gift of Lasting Relief
You’ve done enough pushing through. It’s time to receive something for you.
Your investment today grants you:
✓ Lifetime access
✓ Gentle, guided practices that meet you where you are
✓ Start anytime, move at your own pace
Let this be your moment. Say yes to the kind of care your body has been truly asking for.
For A Limited Time Only
“Now I Know What My Shoulders Need”
I used to get a massage every week. But now, I just say to myself, hey, this part of my shoulders could use some work. I don't have to wait until next Tuesday. I always used to joke with my massage therapist, “You know, you do all this hard work, but five seconds after I leave, I get a phone call from work and my shoulders are up by my ears.
— Leticia, 58, Colorado
Did I Mention Your Investment is Risk-Free?
If you’re not 100% satisfied, neither am I. My promise to you: love it or your money back.
I created From Stuck-in-Stress to Your Embodied Wild Woman Life: How to Use Myofascial Self-Massage for Self-Healing to help you move out of exhaustion, pain, and stress and into more joy and energy so that you live with more optimism, gratitude, and energy.
I’m so confident that it will help you move in this direction that it comes with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you aren’t satisfied with your purchase for any reason, simply contact me at annmerle@annmerle.com within one month for a full refund — no strings attached.
Meet Melissa, Who Transformed her Life Through Self-Healing
Melissa was a member of the Fierce Over 50 Gathering: my year-long program that deepens and expands the exact transformations you’ll experience in this course. With the help of these practices, she went from overwhelming fatigue and pain to feeling less stress and more comfort and connection with her body.
The Before:
Melissa is a hardworking teacher and mother of a special needs child. She worked very hard to get out of constant, hopeless, and overwhelming fatigue and pain. As she told me, “I tried everything, but my pain felt like a never-ending cycle: the yoga, the Pilates, or whatever stretching I did would bring me relief for maybe the rest of that night. But by the next day, there it would be again, the low back pain. I felt completely hopeless.”
The After:
Using breath, rest, and self-massage, Melissa had learned how to listen to her body. Participating in the Gathering’s close-knit community, she was able to ask questions and feel the group’s support. After learning how to connect to her body she could safely grow stronger. Melissa’s growing body-centered confidence spilled into her everyday life. So much had changed.
In her words:
“Today my low back is so much better. I have a lot more mobility and a lot less pain. My shoulder used to hurt all the time and that’s better too. … I have set some boundaries and I guard these pockets of time religiously. I get home from work, change clothes, and then I set my timer for fifteen minutes and do my hip openers. It’s absolutely meditative. The breathing calms me right down. Sometimes I just lay on my back with my knees up, resting and breathing. It’s kind of like a switch. I feel like I am letting go.”
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“AnnMerle is Living Proof….”
AnnMerle…is living proof that you can not only restore properties within your fascial tissues but simultaneously restore your belief in your worthiness and capabilities.
Jill Miller,
Author of Body by Breath and The Roll Model,
Co-founder of Tune Up Fitness
Quoted from Fierce Over 50: Quit the Fight Against Aging, Leave Self-Care Behind, Empower Your Self-Healing Journey, and Become Who You Were Meant to Be.
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Questions? Something on your mind?
If you’re like many of the women I’ve worked with, you might still have a few questions before you dive in. That’s natural — and wise. This is about your body, your healing, and your life.
Here are some of the most common questions I hear — and my honest answers to help you decide if this is the right next step for you.
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Yes — this is your starting point.
Patterns of tension take time to unwind, but this course gives you the tools to begin. Expect moments of real shift as well as old habits reappearing — that’s normal and part of healing. Over time, you’ll notice more ease and growing awareness.
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You should be able to stand and lie down on a mat.
And, of course, your doctor should clear you for massage.
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Plan on about 1.5 to 2 hours per session.
There are four focus areas (neck and shoulders, core, hips, and feet), and I recommend doing each session over time — one a week works well. You’ll have lifetime access to revisit and deepen as often as you wish.
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Absolutely — this is designed for beginners.
You’ll be guided gently and clearly through every step.
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Perfect — this will deepen your journey.
Myofascial self-massage is likely new and offers you powerful ways to connect to your body in this season of life. This will complement and expand on what you already know.
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You’re welcome here, no matter your age.
If stress and tension are showing up in your body, this work is for you.
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Myofascial self-massage and the way it integrates breath, rest, strength, and connection is completely unique. This knowledge has only become available to scientists, clinicians, and teachers in the past 15 years. It creates a crucial, base-line work that we women over 50 desperately need. I hold advanced teaching certifications in yoga and still love to practice, but until I integrated the components of my Body Vitality Method into my practice, I still found myself stuck in stress.
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Yes — and you may be surprised.
This work invites you to release judgment and meet yourself with compassion. That shift alone is healing. Just start — you are ready enough.
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Lifetime access is included.
You can return again and again, whenever your body asks for it.
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Not in this introductory course.
For live interaction and personal guidance, my year-long FierceOver50 Gathering is the next step. You can learn more about the Gathering at https://www.fierceover50.com/fierce-over-50-gathering
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Not right now.
I’m committed to my own joyful life and to nurturing my FierceOver50 Gathering community. I offer private sessions to a small number of women in the Gathering. Outside of that community, this course and my newsletter are the best ways to work with me.
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Join my newsletter at FierceOver50.com.
That’s where I share new resources, invitations, and offerings.
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This is a self-paced course without Q&A support.
Everything you need is inside — trust your process. If however, you do have questions, you can email me at annmerle@annmerle.com.
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Look for my upcoming book, Fierce Over 50: Quit the Fight Against Aging, Leave Self-Care Behind, Empower Your Self-Healing Journey, and Become Who You Were Meant to Be, available through Kindle, as a paperback, and on Audible. This book shares my full story and the Body Vitality Method in depth.
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You’ll get instant access.
An email will guide you to the course platform, where you can log in and begin right away.
If your question wasn’t answered here, trust your inner wisdom. When your body and heart say yes — even softly — that’s your signal. I invite you to step in and begin.
And if your heart is leaning in but you still have a lingering question, you’re welcome to reach out to me personally at annmerle@annmerle.com. I’ll do my best to guide you.