Structural Integration
Structural integration is a ten-session process designed to align and balance the body – allowing it to move with greater ease.
The process works to manipulate the body’s connective tissue (fascia) – to systematically release the patterns of daily stress and impaired function.
The continuing pull of gravity, the stress of daily activities and physical injuries puts the body out of alignment. The fascia gradually shortens, tightens and adjusts to accommodate the misalignment. While in that state, the body creates inefficiency and imbalance resulting in stiffness, discomfort and loss of energy.
The primary focus if SI is to facilitate the relationship between gravity and the body. It aligns and lengthens the fascia – helping the body to move with greater ease -- requiring less energy to function. Good posture is effortless and breathing is easier; the body becomes more flexible, more coordinated and athletic performance improves.
During the sessions, the practitioner will apply pressure to the body, working the fascia in a systematic way – thus allowing the body to return to its structurally optimal position.
Evoke Bodyworks follows the world-renowned SI principles developed by Ida P. Rolf in the mid-twentieth Century.
Rolf was a noted biochemist for the Rockefeller Institute’s Department of Chemotherapy and later the Department of Organic Chemistry. She also studied mathematics and atomic physics at the Swiss Technical University in Zurich, Switzerland.
What she felt was inadequate medical treatment for personal and family health problems led her to work with the giants of chiropractic medicine, osteopathy, and yoga, including Dr. F. Matthias Alexander and Alfred Korzybski, among others.
Between the 1950’s and her death in 1979, Rolf caught the eyes of John Bennett, a prominent mystic and student of Gurdjieff, and Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt therapy. It was while working with these two that she began training other practitioners in the field of Structural Integration.
Her writings, lectures, classes and seminars have been heralded world-wide and are used today in the education of other Structural Integration Practitioners.
“There is a difference in energy levels of performance between the words ‘evoke’ and ‘demand.’”
- Ida P. Rolf