If you are experiencing chronic pain, hoping to correct and improve poor posture or if you are looking to help alleviate spinal & joint discomfort, Structural Integration is one of the best therapy options available today.
Imagine that your body could feel more balanced, free of pain, and fluid in movement.
Structural Integration (also known as Rolfing®) can help you move towards this level of health.
Structural Integration has been helping people feel more alive and comfortable in their bodies for many years. For pain relief, injury rehabilitation or more general issues of posture and flexibility, Structural Integration focuses on your ease of movement and increase in comfort, increasing your energy and enjoyment of day to day living.
The manual techniques of Structural Integration involve Myo-Fascial Release; slow, deep stretching around joints, lengthening of shortened, bunched myo-fascial tissues and freeing up stuck, frozen muscles etc, so that your body moves in the way it was meant to. You will feel a lift up through the centre of your body as the joints are able to float out of their collapsed state.
Your nervous system is able to better accept the changes made by being supported with Cranio-Sacral and Visceral techniques, allowing for longer lasting results than many more standard massage techniques.
You will also be shown how to move more efficiently, sit and walk in order to better maintain your new body and perform at higher standards with less effort. Overall, there is usually a noticeable change in your posture and movement which continues to evolve for some time after sessions are completed.
Structural Integration or Rolfing® is much more than a manual therapy aimed at ‘fixing’ musculo-skeletal problems. At that level of the therapeutic model it has a very high success rate but potentially it has so much more to offer.
Posture is actually the reflection of your personal pattern of movement and it is this sequence of habits that needs to be changed if improvements in the physical functioning of your body are to be retained. As well the shifts and changes that occur during the twin processes of changing the bodies’ tissue and changing the underlying movement pattern can have a deep psychological and emotional impact on the recipient.
Structural Integration differs from other forms of bodywork, in that it is not something that is ‘done’ to the client. You are not a passive recipient who is worked on by the practitioner, but an active participant who with help transform yourself! Your participation is vital to the most effective process of change.
For more specific information, please email for an Information Pack (including FAQ), or enquire about your specific situation.
There is little difference in the varying schools of Structural Integration, the one focus is more effective movement and function. The term Rolfing® was the phrase coined by clients and students of Dr Ida Rolf, the original instigator of the work. This is now a service mark owned by the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration, and may only be used by financial and recognised members of that organisation. Structural Integration is now legitimately taught by a number of organisations, and is an in-depth learning process over a considerable number of hours. Practitioners should have received training through institutions recognised by the International Association of Structural Integration, not as an add-on through a massage college.
