SISU Structural Integration

08/05/2025

Movement is more than muscles pulling on bones. It’s a conversation between your nervous system, your fascia, and both your internal and external environments.

Every step, every breath, every touch is part of a rich dialogue that shapes how you move and feel. Approaches like Fascial Counterstrain honor this ongoing conversation, helping your body find ease and balance.

04/25/2023

Anyone who likes the bird songs that I play in my office, they are now available to play on Spotify.

Listen to this episode from Sonus Natura (The sounds of nature) on Spotify. Somewhere in beautiful Marquette County, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The sounds of wildlife gradually give way to the rain.

04/13/2021

Rolfing is a treatment system that uses manual therapy and movement therapy to modify posture, prevent chronic strain, or disrupt patterns which cause pain and tension.

The Rolfing process is intended to help you to use your body more efficiently. After a session, clients often report feeling taller, lighter, and moving more fluidly.

The position and pressure used depends on what layer of tissue is being addressed, what the client can tolerate, and what the body allows comfortably.

01/28/2021

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KgFw2OVuc84&feature=share

https://youtu.be/iGxA70Soapw Are you interested in Rolfing® but not sure how it works and if it's for you? Maybe you're a massage therapist who's interested ...

08/02/2020

07/21/2020

Rolfing Structural Integration, now available in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

By Jeffrey Kinnunen, M.S. Certified Rolfer, ACSM Clinical Exercise Physiologist

We proudly offer Rolfing Structural Integration as a new wellness service here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. That sounds interesting, you might say, but what exactly does that mean?

In brief, this is Structural Integration explained, (or at least I will try). Structural Integration is a system of manual therapy and movement therapy. It consists of interventions that are intended to promote more functional movement throughout the whole body. I use the term Rolfing Structural Integration because I trained and was certified at the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Rolf “Invented” structural integration, but it has roots in a tradition of osteopathic medicine, and the interventions are often reflective of this. There are other schools of Structural Integration, that branched off from Rolfing. I’m not saying that any school is better or worse, just that I attended the original.

Rolfing Structural Integration, or just “Rolfing” utilizes a continuum of contact from no contact- movement therapy, to slight contact- such as body tracking, up to deep tissue contact. The deep tissue contact is kind of like a massage performed without massage oil. Rolfing isn’t massage though. I’ll give you the analogy that a blueberry is kind of like a tomato. One is not better than the other; they serve different purposes.

A typical session involves assessment and treatment with intervention using the continuum of contact that I described. The client is an active participant in the process. The Rolfing process is meant to engage the client through awareness of their own body. Physiological and psychological variables affect how you experience your body, and the way your body functions. The practitioner is there to help you understand and improve these variables. Your body is not “Broken” and it doesn’t need to be “Fixed.” Your body is a brilliant, self-regulating machine that heals itself. Sometimes, though, it needs a little help.

Can Structural Integration be done safely while wearing a mask? Yes. Right now the client and the practitioner both wear a mask. I absolutely will do everything in my ability to keep you safe in the office.

SISU Structural Integration is here to help you improve the function of your body. We are located inside the 906 Family Dentistry building at 127 North Pansy Street, in Ishpeming, MI. Contact Jeff for more information. Call or text: (906) 362-0203, e-mail: sisubody@gmail.com.

07/01/2020

We are officially open, following CDC guidelines & looking forward to helping you move with ease!

We are offering special grand opening pricing for the month of July:

🔹Rolfing 10 series - 3 session package $200
3 sessions = 4.5 hours of Rolfing for $200!!
🔹Assess & treat $25 per session
🔹Red light therapy $20 per session
🔹Red light therapy 6 sessions package $100
🔹Red light therapy add on to a Rolfing or Assess
& treat session for only $10
🔹Health coaching $25 per session
🔹Exercise physiology $25 per session

For appointment we can be reached by
Facebook: direct message
Email: sisubody@gmail.com
Call: 906-362-0203
For same day appointments call!

06/12/2020

WHAT IS STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION?

Jeffrey Kinnunen, M.S., Certified Rolfer, ACSM-Clinical Exercise Physiologist

I am proud to offer Rolfing Structural Integration to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Rolfing Structural Integration is a movement and manual therapy system that allows the body to function with greater ease. Practitioners of Rolfing Structural Integration, often referred to as Rolfers, use a variety of tools to assist the body in resolving conditions that result in pain.

A session of Rolfing Structural Integration may involve assessment (posture, movement, and function), movement cueing, and hands on interventions. The interventions often remind people of what they might experience with an osteopath, physical therapist, or massage therapist. There are similarities in the techniques, however, it is a discipline unique from those other therapies.

My goal is to assist clients in improving their physical health and well-being. I can see clients who are experiencing acute or chronic pain, or in preventative capacity. In addition to Rolfing Structural Integration, I offer health coaching, therapeutic exercise prescription and red light therapy. We will begin seeing clients July 1, 2020. We are now scheduling, for an appointment message us or call 906.362.0203.