Structural Integration is process oriented work. For the most part, our modern culture doesn’t understand process. The allure of instant gratification seems to grab our attention more heavily than giving process the patience it requires.
The human body is put together as a cohesive series of relationships that have grown and developed in unison over time. The way we inhabit and experience our body now is a culmination of all the things that have ever happened to us: accidents, illnesses, injuries, traumas, occupational hazards, hobbies, you name it! It’s been a process to get here!
In that same vein, finding a new way to experience the body through its relationship to gravity, while letting go of deeply ingrained strain patterns, must take process into account.
In SI, we approach the human body the way it is put together, through a series of relationships, or sessions, that allow the body to express the entirety of its scope.