I am now trained and certified to provide Structural Integration sessions!!!
I am back in San Antonio after my final two weeks in Maine studying with the Anatomy Trains crew and my fellow students: I graduated!!!
A big thank you to the teacher team for everything they did to help us succeed! (Lou Benson, Meredith Stephens, Kelly Chadwick, Cristy Harper, Debra Dower, Shannon Fallon, Diana Christmas, Michele Wren, the entire office support crew… and Tom.)
As I continue to grow in the work beyond this training, I know the REAL learning comes from putting it to work on real people. My goal now is to transition my existing clients to the appropriate “series” or sequence of work that I’ve learned: be it a 3-series or a 12-series… which means a project lasting either 3 or 12 appointments, 90 minutes a peice. I would love for everyone on my schedule to experience the transformation that comes with this strategical approach, and my hopes are for everyone to be a part of one of these two options within a 4-month period. I can now better assess alignment and target the specific muscle or connective tissue restrictions that hold each person in their unique posture. I’m still going to do as much as I can with my feet, and blend in my signature myofascial barefoot massage that y’all love, but we’ll have an end-goal and will see progressive changes along the way. It’ll be so much fun, and I can’t wait to learn from all my clients!
This style of bodywork is less about me massaging where it hurts, and I’m most excited about that! I have always loved figuring out a puzzle, and I love figuring out where the source of your pain comes from… I’ve been doing that with each of you for years. The thing is, that has turned into me endlessly chasing your pain – or just hovering in maintenance massage mode, waiting to pounce on it if it shows up again! I have been looking for more answers into how to better prevent chronic pain from recurring in the first place. What I’ve learned through Structural Integration is that it doesn’t ~entirely~ matter where you may hurt: what I am looking to do is subtly reshape the placement of the connective tissue, muscles and bones, so that when you move throughout the day, you move more effortlessly and definitely more efficiently, which puts less strain on the collective whole of your entire body. If there is a balance of tone across the span of your tissues, and if there are less kinks in the way your joints are pulled, then your nervous system is less triggered by distractions, and less likely to signal pain responses from the restrictions it senses. We turn your awareness inwards to blindspots in your body by unravelling movement potential that you didn’t know was there – and it retrains your pain response as you better understand the sensations.
Check out this video of Tom Myers, one of my instructors and the founder of this lineage of Structual Integration: he does a really nice job explaining what the work is like…
My schedule will be shifting to specifically accomodate those who commit to a 3 or 12-series of sessions, making sure that there is time available so that this project on your body completed within a 3-4 month period. If you are already on the books, we’ll work out the details in person. If you are interested in getting scheduled, please fill out this form:
