Structural Integration

Structural Integration (SI) is a type of bodywork that focuses on the connective tissue, or fascia, of the body. Fascia surrounds muscles, groups of muscles, blood vessels, organs, and nerves, binding some structures together while permitting others to slide smoothly over each other. 

Benefits of Structural Integration?

All types of people have benefited from Structural Integration. Some come to ease chronic pain and stress; others are hoping to improve their athletic performance. Children and older people alike can benefit from improved structural alignment. Structural Integration is contraindicated for those with infections, fevers, acute inflammation and recent trauma. Some forms of rheumatoid arthritis, severe osteoporosis or osteomyelitis are also contraindicated.

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Structural Integration systematically addresses your body as a whole, usually over a series of sessions. Skilful touch brings relief from pain and discomfort, and awareness of how you’re holding and using your body. Changes in your posture, movement, and physical experience are achieved through education, awareness, and therapeutic touch. The focus is on relationship—how you relate with your physical experience of yourself and your environment—rather than on any particular body part or region.

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We help you inquire into how you relate with your body and environment, you may come to recognise patterns of tension that no longer serve you, and discover new options for movement, posture, self-care, and your overall physical experience. Rather than treating symptoms, we work to help your body integrate internally between systems, and externally toward your life’s challenges.

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Why Choose Structural Integration?

Structural Integration (SI) is a process-based approach to somatic education, typically involving manual therapy, that explores the possibility of change in how you use and experience your body. Through education, awareness, and therapeutic touch, you can release painful, stressful patterns of tension. Effortful habits are replaced with feelings of comfort, ease of movement and posture, and a sense of whole-body coherence. Structural Integration can help us learn to “let go” of chronic stress and tension, to stop fighting gravity and allow it to support us instead. Movement becomes a pleasure, breath comes easier, and “good posture” becomes effortless. We experience a sense of ease, efficiency, and grace. Many SI clients come to find relief from pain and discomfort along the way. While this describes some general benefits, the SI process is individual and personal, with a wide range of effects and benefits.

What conditions can Structural Integration treat?

Structural Integration Therapy (SI) may sound like medical terminology, but it is actually a holistic approach of bodywork and manipulation that focuses on

 the connective tissue—the fascia—of the body. Through a series of sessions, SI works to restore posture and heal tightened and thickened fascia due to

 injury, stress, work-related issues, and other factors—all of which can cause chronic pain and limited mobility.

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The fascia can tighten, shorten, and thicken due to a number of reasons including:

  • Stress
  • History of physical injury
  • Work-related issues
  • Repetitive movements
  • Poor posture
  • Natural effects of aging
  • Prolonged athletic performance
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