Structural Integration is a form of body work designed to bring the body back to its most natural alignment and balanced movement within its constant relationship to gravity. Our body organizes its self to its patterns of habitual use. During our lives, we encounter all kinds of demands on our bodies which challenge the order, ease and comfort we start out with. These include injuries and trauma, overuse, disease, postural and movement habits—and most consistently, the constant pull of gravity. How we've coped with all of these demands is reflected in the organization of our bodies. Ease, comfort and efficiency are the hallmarks of a high degree of order in the body. Structural Integration works to help the body reach a better level of order (integration), while alleviating problems that are disrupting that order.​



Some common reasons for receiving Structural Integration are:



• improved physical performance for athletes and others
• an increased sense of ease and energy in the body
• recovery from injury and trauma including accidents, surgeries and repetitive strain
• chronic pain issues such as joint pain, headaches, back and neck pain
• postural problems like scoliosis, hunching, etc.
   

In a series of sessions, Structural Integration facilitates a deep, organic reorganization of the client's body and movement patterns. Practitioners work with two media to improve how a person's body is organized: the connective tissue, fascia that pervades the body and organizes its form and function; and the client's own body awareness and coordination. This makes the experience not simply "passive" but an involved learning and repatterning process that goes on deep within the body, one that lasts.​



Structural Integration Practitioners treat the body as an highly intelligent operating system that is adaptable and has the potential to organize as well as dis-organize too "random body".

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Holistic Integrated Health creates order, wherever it's found in the body, as experienced as ease, comfort, and energy. We don't always notice it unless it's compromised, or until it suddenly returns.

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Disorder has all kinds of causes—from obvious, traumatic events like injuries and accidents to the long-term effects of time, stress and misuse. And wherever disorder is found in the body, we experience extra effort, strain, discomfort, fatigue, or pain.