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Below are several methods and practices that can support efforts at nurturing a sense of freedom, both in oneself and in relationships with others. They are taught privately on a one-to-one basis.
Structural Integration
We stand by recruiting our body’s muscles to overcome Earth’s gravitational pull on us. The way we recruit those muscles has been fashioned by our unique story, in particular, by the manner in which we shouldered our struggles. This, as well as any physical mishaps we have encountered along the way, creates tensional patterns in our body. These specific patterns persist despite muscular activity and postural changes.
We require tensional patterns to stand. Without them, we would collapse. But if we feel unsteady in our standing, then perhaps our tensional patterns have caused our body to be in tensional disequilibrium. This disequilibrium manifests through a tissue that is found around and within our muscles and which is continuous with the membranes that envelop our visceral chambers. The name of that tissue is fascia.
When our body is in tensional disequilibrium, the configuration of the fibres that underlie fascia deviates from that which is healthy. This deviation gives rise to compensatory tension in other parts and layers of our body, which, in turn, may cause our muscles to be unnecessarily tense or create constrictions within our visceral chambers. Our body becomes somewhat disorganised, challenging our ability to stand with ease.
To recover our capacity to stand with ease, it would help to reorganise our body. For this, we may benefit from a little helper. One such helper is someone who practices Structural Integration, a method pioneered by a remarkable woman who was ahead of her time: Dr Ida Rolf. A practitioner of her method understands the ins and outs of fascia, and draws on this knowledge to reorganise our body. The reorganisation starts with the practitioner taking stock of our tensional patterns.
Having comprehended our tensional patterns, the practitioner draws on that knowledge to reorganise our body. He or she applies gentle but deep and sustained pressure on our skin, feeling through our many layers of tissue to arrive at our fascia. Once in touch with our fascia, the practitioner coaxes its underlying fibres into a healthy configuration. This causes a cascading chain of events which, in slowly unfolding, nurtures our body into a tensional equilibrium that is supportive of our standing surely.
Interested? Contact our practitioner: Raveen Kulenthran
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