Structural Integration

A “re-boot for the body – peeling back the layers of forgotten pains and injuries to renew balance and restore your natural alignment”.
Does your body feel tired, heavy, stiff and full of aches and pains? Would you like to feel more upright and balanced with a greater freedom of movement?

Why Do You Need Anatomy Trains Structural Integration?

We start life as a blank canvas, the things that happen in life shape our bodies physically and emotionally. Common strain patterns come about from inefficient movement habits caused by our body’s response to poorly designed cars, desks, shoes and other surroundings. Individual strain patterns come about from: imitation when we are young, emotional trauma and stress, physical injuries, surgeries and our body’s response to traumatic episodes. All of these will create a neuromuscular response causing tissue to contract, shift, thicken and glue itself to surrounding structures leading to immobility and pain.

What is Anatomy Trains Structural Integration?

Anatomy Trains Structural Integration springs from the pioneering work of Dr Ida Rolf and has been developed by Thomas Myers. The ATSI recipe is based around the Anatomy Trains Myofascial Meridians concepts which are explored in the book written by Thomas Myers and is now used worldwide in the teaching of many forms of bodywork and movement.
Modern anatomy now recognises the importance of the myofascial network, until recently regarded as ‘the Cinderella of musculoskeletal research.’ This network not only gives our body it’s shape it plays an essential role in transmitting, enhancing and restricting movement. It is the glue and fabric that holds our body together, it surrounds and connects every muscle fibre, every organ, in fact almost every structure in our body.

It truly is a continuous connection throughout our whole body. Imagine it is like a spiders’ web, when it is pulled in one area it transmits tension to another.
The body does this very well and in most cases symptoms manifest themselves some distance from the root of the cause, a bit like pulling on a bit of clothing the tensions can be felt far from the initial tugging.

Benefits

• Can ease chronic pain and stiffness.
• Restores natural alignment, length and ease.
• Restores natural alignment, length and ease.
• Improves posture, movement and energy.
• Unwinds strain patterns residing in your body.
• Can improve and enhance athletic performance.

What does it involve?

Anatomy Trains Structural Integration takes place over 12 progressive sessions. Times may vary but a session can take up to 1 1⁄2 hours. Each session is a hands’ on treatment with a postural/movement assessment at the beginning and during each session, although following the 12 session recipe each session is designed to address individual needs.

Assessments and treatments are done in underwear or swimwear.
The first 4 sessions aim to free up the front, back, and sides, freeing the shoulders from the trunk, freeing the breath and finding support through the feet.

The middle four sessions address the ‘core’ of the body, working into the central stabilisation muscles closer to the spine to find support from within.

The final 4 sessions integrate the ‘core’ and the ‘sleeve’ to improve co-ordination and posture. This new alignment simply becomes part of who you are, not something you have to work at or repeatedly see a practitioner to maintain.

It will leave you with a lasting and progressive change that will echo throughout the rest of your life.

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