What is Structural Integration?

Imagine you are wearing a body suit. When you first put it on, all the fibers of the fabric are evenly spaced and aligned. It moves with you well. The elasticity of the suit seems to enhance your movements and activities. You have no pain- you love this suit! 

You decide to wear this suit everyday. With time, parts of the suit become stretched out, leaving gaps between the threads. Other areas somehow got tighter where you can’t pull one thread away from the other. Joints are getting pulled out of place. Stretching the suit doesn’t seem to help the tightness.  Moving differently doesn't seem to tighten those loose areas. Doing your daily activities becomes more difficult by the day. Too much energy is being wasted trying to keep this suit functional, so we choose to stop moving. Can’t we just take the suit off already? 

Well, this bodysuit is your fascia. Unfortunately, we can’t take our fascia off, and it just is good for us to not move. We have to find a new way to realign our fascial suit as best as we can. 

Structural Integration helps realign those fibers in your fascial “body suit”. The realignment can help force transfer through the fibers efficiently and easily, leaving your body more adaptable, strong, and flexible. It is a form of bodywork that looks at the body as a systematic whole rather than in parts. The work can help release holding patterns within the body, acquire more spacial awareness, and create balance and ease in movement. 

Is Structural Integration massage? 

Structural Integration is not massage. Unlike massage, we are focusing on manipulating fascia and looking at the body as a whole instead of focusing on isolated muscles. 

What is the 3-Series? 

The 3-Series is three separate appointments done on (or close to) a weekly basis. In these three sessions, we will address the whole body. If you have never experienced this type of  bodywork, this is a good introduction to see if it works for you. 

Session 1: We address the lower body, from the feet to the hips. The goal is to establish core support from the ground up, and help balance the feet, legs, and pelvic girdle. 

Session 2: We are working with the upper body- from the pelvic girdle, up to head, and out to the hands. The goal of this session is to open the breath and balance the shoulder girdle on the ribcage. 

Session 3: We integrate the work we did on the lower and upper body at the core and spine. The goal is to find ease and balance in the spine, as well as build awareness of postural patterns.

Once you have completed the 3-Series and enjoyed the work, a 12-Series can be discussed.