Structural Medicine, as a practice, is a two-hour session akin to a blending of physical therapy and standard massage. You will be dressed the entire time so please wear loose athletic clothes; appropriate attire can be provided. The first five to ten minutes of the session is a postural assessment and range of motion tests, these observations inform the where to start and what is restricting the body. The rest of the two-hour session will be mostly manual therapy, similar to massage, but much slower, often deeper and with active movement. Once an area has established change, you may be asked to walk around or perform a movement lesson to create a strong neuromuscular connection to this new range of motion.

Structural medicine is a practice and a perspective. It’s an understanding that by changing the structure of the body, one can affect it’s function. It’s a belief that the body keeps the score, it remembers, it adjusts and it adapts to the many physical and emotional stresses that we experience throughout life. Ever felt like a ball of stress? Anger tighten your fists? Freeze in fear? Old injuries limit your present experience?

Structural Medicine believes that by utilizing a blend of manual therapies, dialog and movement lessons a person can move through the tensions and stresses of the past, stay grounded in the present and create changes that last a lifetime. Through the manipulation and reformation of the fascia’s tensional integrity, its tensegrity, the structure of the body can change, and therefore it’s function can change. Through changing how someone functions in life, how they move, react, and adapt, their perception of the world can change. If moving through life becomes easier, life feels easier.

The physical and the emotional are much more connected than we are led to believe. When life is stressful and we feel anxious or unsupported, our bodies tighten to give us this support. If these tightnesses remain, our body unconsciously thinks we need to be supported and we feel anxious—we become stuck in anxiety. Through unlocking these restrictions and relearning this support we can reconnect to that playful, effortless perspective we had on life as children. Through these structural medicine sessions one can take steps toward being grounded in the present, finding the root of the problem, and moving from the heart toward painless and effortless mobility. We cannot control the situations we find ourselves in, but we can control how we react, adapt and adjust to them. Book now and take steps toward an easier existence.