Chico SI - Structural Integration

07/31/2024

I am rarely on Facebook anymore but this business is thriving and I'm looking forward to meeting you! Make an appointment at

Structural Integration, sometimes called rolfing, is a highly specialized, therapeutic massage that balances and organizes your body to be more efficient, adaptable, and pain-free.

11/23/2023

2024 is coming. The back half of 2023 has been a stress-filled, surgery fest for me. Many months of recovery delayed my marketing and practice-building so I will speak this into existence for the new year:

I believe in Structural Integration. It has great value and produces great results. It is truly unlike anything else.

Clients who want to gain awareness and positive forward progress in their bodies and lives will be attracted to my practice.

These clients will also be attracted to the commitment for the 10-series. It takes time to unwind and unlock body patterns. If it were simple, it would have been done already.

Clients will feel valued and heard at every moment and will feel a deep understanding of themselves and their bodies.

As my intention has been spoken, let's go 2024!

09/18/2023

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02/05/2023

Breaking patterns does take a bit of courage. Oftentimes that courage comes once the pain of staying the same is just too great to handle anymore, but it doesn't have to get that far and it doesn't have to be that scary.

1. Take a look at the patterns you notice might not be right for where you are in your life.
2. Explore different options that can help you carve a new path.
3. Then practice aspects of that new path until the old pattern is out of the picture.

It will take time and attention but that is time well spent to upgrade your patterns to fit your life. And if you find yourself feeling stuck and needing some help, give me a call.
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02/04/2023

02/04/2023

Listen to King Julien! One of the most significant things you can do for yourself is to move your body. Move it for fun, move it where it moves and see if you can relax the parts that don't move so easily. Be kind to yourself and find joy in moving.

02/02/2023

"Winter, slumbering in the open air, wears on its smiling face a dream of spring."

01/31/2023

If you can help it, stop yourself from "helping" babies move from crawling to standing to walking. Every stage of development is part of how babies learn how to move from the center in crawling to moving from the center in walking. Give them all the time they need to crawl, then to pull themselves up to standing, and then to walk. The movements they make in all stages carve the acetabulum, the ball and socket joint of the hip. It can help babies also continue the use of the psoas muscle that is so readily available in crawling when they move to standing and then walking. We are born knowing how to move from the center. Let the wisdom of the body do its work (which can be really hard because we want to insert ourselves into the process because we love our children, I know. But, back off and watch :) ) And if you see something that doesn't quite look right or fluid, call an SI practitioner. This work can be like magic for babies and children. They haven't established hard patterns like adults so the work can often be quick and easy.

01/29/2023

A quote from Dr. Ida P. Rolf: In a human body, support is not something solid. Support is relationship.

What does she mean? In the body, it is not the bones that hold us up, it is the relationship that everything in our bodies has to everything else in the body and the relationship that our bodies have in gravity.

Your foot supports you but is not a solid thing. "The foot is a complex mechanical structure of the human body composed of 33 joints, 26 bones, and more than a hundred muscles, tendons, and ligaments that all work together to bear weight, allow for locomotion, and transmit force." - NIH

It is the relationship of all the parts of the foot and how they relate to the rest of the body that brings (or doesn't) the support necessary for life.

If the relationships are not supportive, Structural Integration can help.