What is Structural Integration?

In a nutshell, Structural Integration (also called Rolfing) is the belief that everything physically harmful to your body in your life; all the bumps, bruises, car accidents, spills, blows, tumbles, breaks etc., rearrange and affect our bodies physical structure over time.

And NOT in a good way.

Rolfing is a series of massage manipulations that are used to help reverse the negative impact that all these 'little or big accidents' have on our physical structure.

If you combine those 'little or big spills' with the force of gravity pushing down on us over our lifespan, you can envision how our bodies get crunched together even more.

The union of gravity pushing down on us and all of our little or big spills, compromise our basic skeletal structure.

Structural Integration helps to restructure and correct the body's natural alignment.

Ever notice how limber children are? Well, that's because we’re all born that way. We’re born with a natural ‘S’ curve in our spinal column which helps us bend more easily. Because of these forces of nature over time, we lose that natural flexibility. Notice also how we lose flexibility as we grow older? Ever wondered why?

When we are born, there is plenty of oxygen between our bones and our muscles. The oxygen 'cushions' our muscles and bones. We bend more easily and move more often. That’s what keeps us so flexible. Over time, this oxygen is lost and our bones and muscles suffer. We get ‘crunched’ together.

It’s largely because we don’t sit up straight with our shoulders down and back, head up, chest out, stomach in and our hips flexed back and because we don't move as much.

Instead we hunch over and don’t get the exercise we need to maintain our natural flexibility. We lose the natural ‘S’ shape that we’re born with and the ‘S’ becomes inverted or backwards. The natural flow of the spinal fluid, which is the lubrication our spines need to move correctly, gets cut off so we can’t bend as easily anymore.

It all makes a lot of sense if you think about it.

If you think you need Rolfing or Structural Integration, check out your local yellow pages and see if someone nearby can help you. It's worth the investment if you experience frequent back pain.



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