Have you ever considered there is more to physical movement than just muscles and bones? Perhaps there’s a matrix within us that we have yet to get to know within ourselves.
Our bodies are an imprint of the lives we choose and don’t choose to live. Our rhythms in movement patterns and our posture is a product of life’s imprint on us.
Structural bodywork addresses the structure that has been long been overlooked involved with our bodily experience as humans- fascia. As time goes on, science is gaining an appreciation of the significance of fascia in our body as it pertains to movement, posture, injury management and somatic processing.
What is Structural Bodywork?
- Structural bodywork is a treatment protocol using fascial meridians to bring awareness and treat the forming postures in the body that interrupt the individual’s efficient relationship to gravity in the world. Posture patterns can interrupt many processes in the body from gait to joint movement dysfunctions, and other internal interruptions that keep one from feeling at home in one’s body.
Session 1- Addresses lower body holding patterns
Session 2- Addresses thoracic and shoulder girdle holding patterns
Session 3- Addresses spinal holding patterns and integrates the rest of the body
Disclosure: There are brief scenes of cadaver lab work in the link below for demonstration of fascial lines
Learning about Structural Integration with Tom Myers- founder of Anatomy Trains
How is Structural bodywork different from Deep Tissue massage?
- The work is systematically approached through the fascia lines of pull in the body to address the root causes of postures that may not be serving the person who comes in to be treated, and could possibly contribute to the complaint.
- There is no oil or lotion used in this treatment in order to access the fascial layer of the body.
- The person receiving treatment is clothed in either gym shorts/sports bra or full coverage undergarments. The practitioner will ask the person receiving to add joint movements during the treatment.
- The person receiving treatment will be asked to get off the table to assess differences that may be noticed during the treatment and integrate movements.
- This series is not to be used to treat a specific issue, but to gain more awareness about body holding patterns getting in the way of a person’s efficient navigation in gravity.
- It is structured treatment plan that is tailored to each person’s unique holding in gravity through body reading before each session and again after treatment to track progress
- At the beginning, middle, and end of the series pictures will be taken to track progress for the client to observe with the practitioner.
Is Structural Bodywork good for everyone?
- No. But, the best way to learn if Structural Bodywork is for you is to contact Linda at lgarveymassage@outlook.com and introduce yourself with your bodywork goals and a little bit about health history is pertinent to bodywork.
After the three series, you are welcome to come back for touch ups to focus on treatment of any further complaints that come up or haven’t been addressed in the series work.
Come with Linda on a journey getting to know yourself and your relationship to gravity through Structural Bodywork.
