by Larry Kaufman | Jun 15, 2018 | SI Training Opportunities
I have always struggled to explain Structural Integration and what it is that I do when talking with people who are not bodyworkers. When pressed, I say that I affect the mobility and structural integrity of the body’s connective tissue system. And – surprise! –...
by Larry Kaufman | Jun 13, 2018 | SI Training Opportunities
It has never been my goal as a practitioner of Structural Integration to ‘fix’ my clients’ bodies. Nor to perfectly align their backs. My personal journey has been to better understand and address the underlying emotional patterns that drive my own physical issues....
by Larry Kaufman | Apr 23, 2018 | SI Training Opportunities
In Sessions Eight, Nine and Ten of Dr. Rolf’s Ten Session Recipe, our primary focus is on supporting the vertical and radial alignment of all the body’s weight-bearing segments, and the transfer of movement through the body’s structural core. There are, of course,...
by Larry Kaufman | Apr 4, 2018 | SI Training Opportunities
The structural integrity of the spine and the mobility of its secondary curves are intimately related to the musculature and non-elastic connective tissue layers that surround and suspend it. As SI practitioners, we see the spine with its secondary spinal curves more...
by Larry Kaufman | Apr 4, 2018 | SI Training Opportunities
Of the many challenges facing students of Structural Integration, learning to work beyond individual muscles to affect whole body fascial envelopes and myofascial continua can be the most challenging. In the early sessions, we have focused upon the space between...
by Larry Kaufman | Mar 24, 2018 | SI Training Opportunities
After sessions One and Two, the body’s surrounding myofascial sleeve should feel freer to move independently from the front and back of the thorax, thus making it possible to shift the entire sleeve into a new position in Session Three. But the new position of this...
