Structural Bodywork

With Structural Bodywork, we begin to address older body patterns that have defined the body for a long time (e.g., a badly sprained ankle, childbirth, motor vehicle accidents, etc.) These painful injuries leave their impact on the body immediately and often become set into a deeper body pattern. Once the mind becomes accustomed to “yesterday’s pain” that becomes today’s normal. It doesn’t have to be this way. 

 

Structural Bodywork is a 3-series session that focus on balancing the hip, the shoulders, and the spine.​

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• Session One: Focuses on the lower body - from pelvis down to the feet - i.e. the foundation for the physical structure above. If these are unbalanced, the structure above is likely to be off center and causing stress in the soft tissues. 
   

• Session Two: Focuses on the upper body - above the groin and includes ribs, shoulders, and arms to correct structures that are potentially involved in rotations, tilts, or twists that cause strain or discomfort, often in the neck, upper back or lower spine. 
   

• Session Three: Focuses on the spine and connecting the work done in Session One and Two. There is often overlap of work done in the previous two sessions to integrate the body and brain (proprioception) to produce a new sense of posture.

 

​Each session ends with system integration and usually involves some sort of gentle homework to wake-up areas of the body that have been worked during that session. Common results include postural ease, movement freedom, improved breathing as well as peace in body and mind.