Structural Integration catalyzes a journey of self discovery, increases movement possibility, and produces a greater physical capacity to challenge long held limiting beliefs.

Structural integration emphasizes a manual therapy based approach for evoking a new understanding of movement and space in the body, which is done within 12 sessions.

Many areas of the body are avoided, out of the somatic map, for a multitude of reasons. Maybe it's simply overuse pain or a mimicked movement pattern. It could be, not limited to, grief, shame, fear, anger, or a lack of stability? A combination and overlap of physical habits and strong emotional “stuckness” produce amnesic areas of the body. Therefore, subconscious or conscious beliefs reflect how different body segments, systems, and cells relate to each other to form who you are. Oftentimes the complex dynamics of relationships, society, and culture prevent a full expression of physical and emotional actions therefore reducing the capacity to adapt emotionally and physically. This is where limiting beliefs dictate and alter long term structure.

There is an emphasis on limiting beliefs and/or unresolved energy within pattern development as a liberating belief never seems to keep someone in a strained pattern. Structural integration series work is a unique way of providing proprioceptive information that makes sense for the body to move out of a pattern by generating relational movement between tissues, breaking up structural fascial adhesions, and allowing the nervous system to reach into the amnesic space. In essence, challenging whatever belief that area of the body was holding from a bottom up stand point, as structural integration work assists in the process of physically resolving limiting beliefs and preparing the body to move into liberating ones. It is important to have an external support system in case any intense emotional action is brought to light.

My desire to offer structural integration arose when I first received a 12 series as it provided me with a completely new opportunity for movement with less strain and nagging pains during exercise. On the journey to becoming a structural integrator, I got certified in Esalen massage. Esalen massage is a type of massage that emphasizes listening to the whole person through touch and providing a sense of wholeness and completeness upon the end of a session. The skill of listening through touch is vital for structural integration as imposing a will for change elicits the opposite effect.

I have found structural integration has been the key to more keenly understanding who I am. It evokes a new possibility for physical and emotional adaptability by focusing on the present through challenging the limiting beliefs from the past or about the future. Structural integration has provided me with the capacity for physical, emotional, and mental transformation.