If you can imagine how it feels to have a fluid, light, balanced body that is free of pain, stiffness, and chronic stress, then Structural Integration may be for you.

Structural Integration is a process of re-education of the body through movement and touch. It systematically releases patterns of stress and impaired function. The primary focus of Structural Integration is facilitating the relationship between gravity and the human body.

What does gravity have to do with integration?

Webster's New World Dictionary defines gravity as "the pull on all bodies in the earth's sphere toward the earth's centre." The earth's gravitational field is the most potent physical force that the human body has to deal with. Although most people realize this tremendous force exists, they somehow believe they are immune to it. Gravity's constant effect on any soft, pliable mass is to make it a formless, chaotic and spherical unit. Since the body has a great deal of plasticity and is much broader at the top than at the base, it is greatly affected by gravity when imbalances exist.

How does Structural Integration feel?

(Or in the words of so many, "Does it hurt?")
Most people who have opinions about Structural Integration being painful have never experienced the process. Much of this reputation for pain came from the early days when Structural Integration was first gaining public recognition. Since that time, the process has greatly evolved. As far as actual experience is concerned, the area being worked will vary in SENSATION, and feeling depending upon injuries to an area or holding of chronic stress as well as other factors. Feelings can range from pleasurable release to momentary discomfort. My goal is to make each client's experience one of self empowerment.