by Larry Kaufman | Aug 24, 2018 | SI Training Opportunities
We recently celebrated the graduation of our 2017 Structural Integration Practitioners Intensive, and I find myself reflecting on just how far we traveled together over the past year. When I think about all the challenges people faced and overcame, and all the changes...
by Larry Kaufman | Aug 2, 2018 | SI Training Opportunities
As a teacher of Structural Integration, I’m often asked by prospective students how I ‘see’ the body. Most assume we focus on muscles and bones, so it comes as a surprise when I explain that our primary focus is on the body’s connective tissue system. And that we see...
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...
