Create Resilience
Structural Integration helps your body to stay resilient. What exactly does that mean?
We are at a time in humanity where we have never moved our bodies like the way we do now. We sit for hours at a time. We have to be reminded by a watch to tell us to get up and move it seems we’ve even lost our instinctual ability to move. In the long run this may change how our posture evolves as a species. “Teck Neck” will take over. I’ve worked in athletics since 2007 and I can say that I have seen more injuries to young bodies that are typically seen in an older populations (such as lumbar disc herniations, and hip labral tears) now more than ever. There are many risk factors for this, but ultimately it comes down to posture and how optimally and efficiently we are moving our bodies.
Our fascial system is a system in the body that helps to create our “shape” of our body. This shape forms over our life time from our habits, growth and development, injury compensation, learned behavior, from our infant bodies to our elderly body, this system evolves with us. A system, we are now learning receives information as well as sends input out. If we are training our body to sit for long periods of time we’ve lost our prospective qualities-also known as the body’s ability to know where it is in space. When we sit for longs periods of time we loose our fascias elastic qualities-a quality which limits how the fascial system responds, and its bounce ( I sometimes think of the fascia like the movie flubber)
Structural Integration is a form of body work that helps to reorganize our fascial tissue. Creating improved proprioceptive qualities, glide amongst the tissues, and bring the body back to its natural center. This creates better awareness, improved ability to heal from injury, and allows for the other body systems to work better together creating better homeostasis. All in a matter of 12 weeks. How does this keep my body resilient? Well when we can have systems working together instead of compensations, our spine can move better. When my spine moves better my breathing will improve (because they are connected believe it or not) and having better body awareness I can improve my balance, and am better at fighting gravity.
To define resilient is: The ability withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions. Join the Resilient Movement and help your body withstand this crazy thing we call life.
Move Well,
Steph