The Rolf method of Structural Integration, also known as Rolfing, combines touch, movement and awareness to optimally organize your Whole Being in the field of gravity. When the human body is balanced it is designed to relate to the ground underneath it in a highly dynamic way. We expand: up-down, side-to-side, and back-to-front. Gravity does not have to be a force that “drags us down”, that we need to “fight against”. The expanding and balanced body is bouyed up by gravity. Structural Integration supports you to unfold this natural state of Expansional Balance. You release the dysfunctional postural and movement patterns that are the source of muscular and skeletal pain. You develop grace, ease and efficiency on all levels.

Structural Integration works with the ubiquitous, web-like connective tissue called fascia that envelops your muscles and bones. This tangible reality of body structure is a door way to the Whole Being. Your sense of pleasure directs the work, and though occasionally challenging, it is empowering and feels wonderful to recieve.

We begin with a visual assessment of your body’s needs. We then move to the hands-on work done on a bodywork table, seated on a bodywork bench, or standing. You move your body in geometrically balanced patterns while I use touch, ranging from light and superficial to firm and deep, to encourage your body’s soft tissue matrix towards alignment. This combination of movement and touch is very powerful. The body releases its excess tensions and holding patterns while learning to activate dormant potentials on its journey toward balance.

Structural Integration begins with a series of ten sessions. This ten week series is an archetypel form awakening a pattern of wholeness. The opening continues to unfold through out the following year as the fascial system reforms itself to your new, more efficient movement patterns. For those who have completed the ten series I offer advanced work. A single session is also beneficial, with the potential to bring substantial relief to most musculo-skeletal pains and challenges.