What is Structural Integration?
Structural Integration is a form of work that assists the human body in moving to a place of better balance, better organization, and greater overall freedom and wholeness. Structural Integration is a scientifically validated process of restructuring the body through movement, touch, and education. The field of gravity is an unseen force that is consistently interacting with the human body — Structural Integration aims to re-educate the human body so that it lives and moves in harmony within the field of gravity rather than being at war with gravity.
How does it work?
By creating length and space within the soft tissue through gentle pressure and touch, we give the body the room and freedom it needs to align itself. The practitioner facilitates the release of old held patterns in the body that may have been the result of past injury, illness, physical or emotional trauma. Even the stress of daily living, or slouching in front of a computer for six hours a day is enough to create unhealthy/unbalanced patterns in our structure.
What are the Benefits?
- Often people feel lighter and more energetic.
- Some people will grow taller as rotations in the body begin to unwind.
- People often appear slimmer and feel more balanced.
- Chronic aches and pains are reduced and often alleviated, and movement feels more fluid and flexible.
- As we begin to view the world from a more stable and balanced structure, we gain self confidence and the environment appears less threatening.
- As our body becomes more flexible and open, so does our mind – we approach life from a less rigid standpoint.
The Ten Series Process
“Rolfers make a life study of relating bodies and their fields to the earth and its gravity field, and we so organize the body that the gravity field can reinforce the body’s energy field. This is our primary concept.”
– Ida P. Rolf, Ph.D.
