Structural Integration

Structural Integration is an approach to manual and movement therapy that emphasizes physical manipulation to the fascia. It is designed to diminish postural distortion and eliminate pain while bringing greater balance, alignment, and ease of movement. It is soft tissue work that re-educates the fascia by utilizing slow and deliberate touch with fingers, hands, forearms, and elbows. It also uses passive and active movement to develop awareness in sensation across expanded ranges of movement.

Structural Integration will help you feel more at home in and comfortable in your body. One obvious benefit is more comfort and ease as you perform daily tasks and habitual actions. On a more subtle but equally powerful level, Structural Integration can improve your body’s autonomic functions—heart rate, respiration rate, and interoception—resulting in lowered stress, increased calm and well-being.  As you experience these changes in sessions, your body learns how to regulate itself better. In this sense, the sessions are not just an experience: they are an education in embodiment.

You can approach Structural Integration sessions in two different ways:

1. Twelve consecutive sessions: This is the traditional path, systematically covering the entire body to improve fascial mobility, body tone, and balance. You are the project! This twelve-session series can create dramatic changes in postural alignment, with a corresponding improvement in your strength and freedom of motion. It will change how you think and feel in and about your body.

2. Individualized session plan: If you have specific issues you need to address, you may choose to have shorter sequences of sessions to target those issues. In addition, some clients come regularly, using sessions as a proactive way of maintaining their health—just as you would take your car in for periodic checks and tune-ups.