Method

Structural Integration - A Method of Complementary Therapy

Your Well-Being Sustainably in Focus

Together, we promote the interaction of fascia, tendons, and muscles to support your natural uprightness in gravity. With manual fascia work, your awareness and targeted movements, we release tension and reorganise your body so that you feel good all round and can use gravity to your advantage more effortlessly.

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Advantages

Would you like to change your posture, do you suffer from chronic pain or would you like a new body awareness?

  • Easier movement: Move more smoothly and economically.

  • Pain relief: Reduce muscle discomfort, tension and pain.

  • Posture: Optimise your posture and use gravity for support.

  • Body awareness: Refine your awareness of your body structure.

  • Well-being: Experience positive influence on body, mind and soul.

Fascia

Fascia is a connective tissue structure that envelops and interconnects muscles, organs, and other tissues in the body, forming a three-dimensional net. Abundant in nerve endings, it plays a crucial role in sensory perception and provides both structure and flexibility.

Unfavorable movement patterns, trauma, accidents, surgery, or stress can shorten or distort this fascial network, causing imbalances and resulting in restricted movement or pain.

In Structural Integration, we work together to harmonize your fascial network and address any imbalances. Whether you are dealing with specific issues or seeking enhanced well-being, together we will find personalized solutions for a balanced body.

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Three Key Aspects

  • Structural work: Utilizing manual techniques, we address the body's fascial network. The goal is to achieve improved alignment through altered relationships of individual body segments, providing you with greater lightness in gravity.

  • Functional work: Through movement education, we bring awareness to individual movement patterns, enabling positive changes in daily life.

  • Psychobiological work: Through perception training, we actively integrate emotional, mental, and social aspects reflected in the body into the therapeutic process.

Duration and Procedure

  • A series of 10 sessions, each lasting 70 to 80 minutes, allows for a profound reorganization of your body structure, tailored to your individual needs. The first session includes a comprehensive conversation and, therefore, takes a bit more time (90-120 minutes). Sessions are scheduled at intervals of one to several weeks.
    By the way, you do not have to commit to a full series right away; you are welcome to simply experience the method and get to know me.

  • At the beginning of each session, we jointly reflect on the progress so far and set the current goal. The treatment takes place in comfortable underwear on the table, standing, sitting, and in motion. In addition to manual work, subtle movements, guided perceptual exercises, and discussions support the interactive process.

  • Each session revolves around a specific theme and is tailored to your individual needs. In the initial three sessions, we focus on the superficial layers of fascia, promote a more liberated breath, and strengthen the support that the feet and legs provide to the whole body. During sessions four to seven, we deepen the work by intensively addressing specific deeper structures to foster enduring structural changes. The final three sessions integrate progress made, release lingering tension, and support the long-term structural uprightness while anchoring greater ease in movement.

  • The changes achieved in perception and movement patterns, along with the ongoing influence of gravity on your newly uprighted body, continue to have an impact even after the treatment concludes. Together, we provide new impulses so that your body, through self-regulation, can continue its own path toward increased well-being.

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Learn more about Structural Integration/Rolfing®, the founder Ida Rolf, and fascia at www.rolfing.ch.

Discover more about complementary therapy at www.komplementär-therapie.ch.