If you can imagine how it feels to live in a fluid, light, balanced body, free of pain, stiffness and chronic stress, at ease with yourself and Earth’s gravitational field, then you will understand the goals of Structural Integration.
Dr. Rolf
Structural Integration “Rolfing®" Is a Technique That Organizes The Connective Tissues Called “Fascia" and Addresses The Structural and Postural Patterns Of The Fascia. To Balance The Body, Align The Muscles and Gain The Natural Integrity Of Its Form Thus Enhancing Function, Efficiency and Alignment
ROLFING® STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION
The Purpose of Rolfing® is to "Better Balance a Person's Body Around A Vertical Line Within the Field of Gravity". So That Gravity Can Support The Body Rather Than Tearing It Down. Rolfing® Involves Aligning and Organizing Major Muscle Groups and The Connective Tissue Called "Fascia". This Manipulation is Designed to Bring The Body Soft Tissue to Its Anatomically Maximum Efficient Position. These Induced Changes are Permanent with more Efficient Patterns of Movements. Results in Significant Decrease of Stress Experienced in the body during Normal and Strenuous Activities.
In Dr. Rolf Words
"Structural integration is a Technique that Aims at Organizing and Ordering a body. By Bringing Muscles back into the place where they belong in terms of Its Theoretical Order.
Structural Integration is part of a technique to make a person feel more Effective more Efficient. To make A Person better Organized better Coordinated because We are in the Gravitational Field and Excepting it and Working in it and Working with it Instead of Fighting it as the Average Random Body has to do.
In Structural Integration, we Expect to give a Cycle of Ten sessions. There is a reason for this, we are not dealing with local problems.
We are not dealing with the kind of thing that you can say... "well, I Fixed That, that's all." We are dealing with an Attempt to make a Body a Sturdier Human Being. To make a body more Secure, more Adequate within the field of Gravity. Now this requires that Muscles be Balanced. They need to be Balanced around a Vertical line.
When I talk about Balancing Muscles, I'm talking about about Balancing the Right side against the Left side. Balancing the Front of the body against the Back of a body. Finally, Balancing the Inner most muscles against the Outermost muscles, the Inside against the Outside. This is the most important of those Balances. We start from the outside working in and it takes us Ten Hours before we can get to the Place where we can Really Balance the body."