Well at least from the knees down...
Hilary did some very deep work last night, she started by releasing tension in the arches of my flat feet. Then lots of uncomfortable work deep in my calves. She's taking up the work of helping me with my chronically short achillies tendons, and my flat feet.
When I squat now, like utkatasan, my knees actually move forward a ways before my heels lift off the floor. Also rear end drops much closer towards floor.
Her technique is on one level quite simple, she want's to know when her manipulation is about a 4 on 10 in terms of discomfort. Then she hangs out there at that point until tissue releases and my perception of discomfort drops, and then increases the depth of her manipulation and repeats a few times.
She also did some skin rolling down the outside of thighs, this stuff is really not pleasant at all. Feels like skin is about to tear. Actually on the underside it is sort of is. It's tearing away from the fascia and other tissue that its become sort of fixed to.
She says she wanst to achieve a cat-skin like result where you can easilly grab/pinch a layer of skin and it can effortlessly (and painlessly) lifts from the underlying tissue.
meow--ouch