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Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) is a somatic practice utilizing fascial manipulation, awareness, and movement education that is used to help you better understand your relationship with gravity by accessing a sense of support when you yield to weight and expand into space.

It is typically a series of ten sessions that are framed to restore postural balance and functional ease by aligning and integrating your body in gravity.

SI is based on the work of Dr. Ida P. Rolf. It is practiced by those trained at schools and institutions in accordance with the standards established by the International Association of Structural Integrators (IASI). I went to the Rolf Institute and completed my advanced training in Rolfing Structural Integration in 2019.

Difficulty connecting with your own body

Jaw, face and neck work

Breathing restrictions

Pelvic movement restrictions

Scars and visceral adhesion

Neurovascular restriction

Visceral adhesions

Fascial abnormalities

Peripersonal space; your sense of internal body awareness and environmental distress

Eye tension

Adjustment disorder

Self-care, tension release

This work is for you if you suffer from:

• Accidents or impeding surgeries: including brain and spinal injuries, whiplash

• Being born with neurological and structural disorders: spina bifida, Tongue Tie, TMJ

• Structural issues that interfere with functional movement: walking, sitting, balance

• Dysfunction due to aging: stroke, broken hip, isolation

• Too much sitting or driving

• Depleted energy due to aging, anxiety or stress

• Emotional dis-ease like feeling forgotten, harassed, objectified, neurodiverse or misunderstood or any relatable ongoing emotional issues that are difficult to change

For the Structural Component: (I work on you as you lay on the table)

• Continual assessment of how your body supports itself and moves in gravity

• Soft tissue manipulation using specific, focused touch with subtle movement for release of tissues that restrict your movement or comfort

• Essential re-education for integrated ease and comfort in basic and complex movement patterns

• Observation of the relationship between your posture, your pain and your habits of movement to better prepare your living process

For the Functional Component: (I guide you through movements where you’re asked to think about what you’re doing and therefore we develop greater functional capacity.)

• Actively find your support in each moment

• Change your movement initiation so that you can reduce your strain patterns that drag you down, helping your body function better

• Discover your capacity for agency in the moment that brings you lasting, replenishing ease

• Learn to find better ways to approach your body in the moment, as your perceptions always inform your choices

You can expect to do movement work fully clothed. Please wear comfortable, non-restrictive clothing that allows for easeful movement.

The key principle of SI is that your body is significantly affected by the powerful force of gravity.

Your entire body is held together with the interstitium, a meshwork of strong and flexible connective tissue that looks random, but amazingly enough, is adaptive to any suggestion through force or stress. With skilled applied pressure and direction, it can be moved toward fundamentally cohesive and truer alignment with the gravitational pull of the earth.

In a misaligned state, your body’s valuable resources are used inefficiently, laboring to keep you upright in the field of gravity. In addition, the stresses of daily life, physical injuries, unhealthy movement patterns, and attitudes are all forces that can take a toll on your physical structure.

Over time, your body will shorten and tighten to accommodate stresses, creating stiffness, pain, fatigue, and lack of well-being.

As a trained Rolfer™, I use a range of techniques to lengthen and reposition the fascia of your body, realigning you with both your inside and outside worlds.