About the Fascia Training Institute
Advancing Neurofascial Clinical Education, Brain Recovery and Human Performance
The location of pain is not always the source of the problem.
The FTI Clinical Frame
When Symptoms Persist, the System Must Be Examined Differently
Every unresolved case is communicating something.
Pain that returns.
Range of motion that never fully restores.
Post-concussive symptoms that persist.
Performance that declines—even when strength, conditioning, and motivation appear intact.
The Fascia Training Institute was created to investigate and treat what conventional assessment can miss.
We examine how restrictions involving the entire fascial tissue, including cranial fascia, jaw, cervical region, rib cage, shoulders, pelvis, and extremities may influence movement, force transmission, recovery, and performance.
The Fascia Training Institute also explore how neurological and physiological load can affect regulation, cognitive function, and the body’s capacity to adapt.
This is not technique taught in isolation. It is a measurable, systems-based approach to fascia assessment and practitioner education.
FTI equips practitioners to recognize patterns others miss, assess with greater precision, and make informed clinical decisions based on measurable results.
For Practitioners
Clinical Education Built for Complex Cases
We Don’t Teach More Techniques. We Teach Practitioners to See the Entire System.
The Fascia Training Institute was founded on a clinical reality: lasting change requires more than treating the location of the symptom.
For more than 30 years, Simone Fortier has worked across chronic pain, post-concussive symptoms, neurological load, restricted movement, and elite human performance. Her work with professional and Olympic athletes, practitioners, executives, and complex cases revealed a recurring pattern: where the symptom appears is not always where the system is restricted.
FTI was created to translate those clinical findings into practical, measurable fascia training for healthcare, rehabilitation, movement, and performance professionals.
Our practitioner courses integrate fascia as a sensory and force-transmission system with movement, neurological regulation, cognitive function, and recovery. Practitioners learn to assess relationships across the body, identify patterns that isolated techniques can miss, apply precise interventions, and test the response.
The difference is measurable.
Changes in range of motion.
Changes in movement.
Changes in symptoms.
Changes in clarity, regulation, and performance.
Through Dynamic Brain Healing™, Fascia Release and Dynamic Stretch, and NeuroFascial Release training, practitioners develop more than a collection of techniques. They develop a clinical decision-making system they can integrate into their existing scope of practice.
FTI courses are designed for practitioners who want to:
* Understand the relationship between fascia, the brain, movement, and performance.
Look beyond the location of pain or restriction.
Work more effectively with complex and unresolved presentations.
Assess before intervening and test after every application.
Make clinical decisions based on the individual response.
Produce changes that can be observed, measured, and communicated.
Add a distinctive, systems-based methodology to their professional practice.
You already know how to treat. FTI teaches you how to recognize what the body has been communicating—and what others may have missed.**
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Assessment
Application
Apply neurofascial systems to real presentations—not idealized cases.
Measurement
Use measurable response to guide clinical reasoning and progression.
Research & White Papers
Clinical Inquiry Must Be Stated Precisely
Publication 01 · Clinical Case Series
Neurofascial Release and Persistent Symptom Complexity
Publication 02 · Single-Subject Case Analysis
Central Autonomic Regulation and Glycemic Stability
Built With Clinical, Research, and Performance Expertise
Dr. Sonja Pettersen, ND
Clinical Research & Education Advisor
Naturopathic physician and educator supporting FTI’s clinical and research perspective.
Preston Greene
Performance & Systems Advisor
Professional contributing a high-performance systems perspective to FTI’s educational approach.
Dr. Eric Serrano
Scientific Peer Reviewer
Physician supporting rigorous scientific review and the translation of clinical knowledge into practice.
Dr. Brent Myers, DC
Clinical Advisor
Clinical advisor supporting the intersection of applied care and systems-level health.
Dr. Randy Steer, MD, PhD
Scientific Peer Reviewer
Physician-scientist contributing a translational perspective to scientific review and medical innovation.
Jocelyn McCallum, MSc
Clinical Research Advisor
Athletic therapist contributing expertise in clinical research and applied education.
Founder
Simone Fortier
The Founder Who Built What the Field Was Missing
Simone Fortier did not enter fascia education to refine an existing model. She created the model she could not find.
As Founder of the Fascia Training Institute and creator of Dynamic Brain Healing™ and Quantum NeuroFascial Release™, Simone has spent more than three decades investigating the cases conventional approaches could not fully explain: persistent pain, restricted movement, post-concussive symptoms, cognitive changes, and performance decline without an obvious loss of strength or motivation.
Her work—shaped through complex clinical cases, original research, and experience with NFL, NHL, and Olympic athletes—identified a critical pattern:
Symptoms are outputs. The system determines the outcome.
That principle changed the question from Where does it hurt? to What is driving the system to produce this response?
Simone transformed those findings into proprietary assessment, treatment, and practitioner-education systems that connect fascia, force transmission, neurological load, brain function, movement, regulation, and recovery. Her methods are designed to produce change that can be tested, observed, and measured—not assumed.
The Fascia Training Institute is the institutional expression of that original body of work. It exists to ensure these discoveries extend beyond one practitioner, one treatment room, or one technique.
FTI develops practitioners who can recognize what others miss, understand the system behind the symptom, and make more precise decisions based on measurable human response.
The NEXT Standard in Resolving Chronic Pain, Persistent Symptoms of Concussion
Change the System. Change What the System Can Produce.
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Athletes Simone Has Worked With
NFL ATHLETES
Jeff Garcia
Donovan McNabb
Philippe Sparks
Mitchel Trubisky
Combine Athletes in Arizona
ARIZONA CARDINALS
Tommy Bennett
David Boston
Corey Chavous
Anthony Clement
Mac Cody
Mark Maddox
Corey Sears
Andre Wadsworth
Aeneas Williams
JJ McCleskey
Lester Holmes
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS
Shawn Springs
Lamar King
DENVER BRONCOS
Harald Hasselbach
NHL
Claude Lemieux
Todd Simpson
Brad May
MLB – ATLANTA BRAVES
Andruw Jones
Javy Veras
Quilvio Veras
Dave Martinez
Brian Jordon
Chris Seelbach
Tom Glavine
Rafael Furcal
PGA
Billy Mayfair
Jack Nicklaus
Scott McCarron
OLYMPIANs
Kristen Bujnowski
Tiare Lynn Ikei
Victoria Anthony
OTHER COLLABORATIONS
Charles Poliquin, NFL NHL and MLB strength and conditioning coach;
Preston Greene, Baskestball Strength Coach Florida Gators, Miami Hurricanes and University of Clemson;
Chad Ikei, MMA and Football coach;
Strength and conditioning coaches in New York, Arizona, Florida and more;
International Naturopaths and Chiropractors;
Sports Medical Doctors;
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