Structural Integration Amsterdam
From 150€Experience transformative Structural Integration treatment in Amsterdam. This holistic bodywork realigns and balances your structure by working on connective tissue, easing tension and improving posture. Tailored sessions address chronic pain, injuries, and stress. Our expert practitioners in a serene clinic help you achieve a balanced, pain-free life.
Improved Posture and Alignment- Relief from Chronic Pain
- Enhanced Body Awareness and Functionality
- Holistic Approach to Well-being
- Long-lasting Effects and Personal Growth
More about Structural Integration
How Does Structural Integration Work?
The main focus is to bring balance in the tensions of the whole body as well as aligning the person to gravity, improving not only static posture but the tonus and relationship with the world and gravity.
A precise assessment is key. Each session there’s an assessment and overall for the medium-term targets, in connection to the person’s ailments and desires.
This is achieved with deep strokes and gentle active mobilizations from the client. It’s a manual therapy session so you can expect more manual work than movement but still. Albert will coach you through some exercises in order to learn how to use the body in certain positions, easily transferrable into your own life/movement.
Who Can Benefit from Structural Integration?
Anybody that wants to improve their posture, comfort in their bodies, old injuries and any functional problem in the body, as well as anyone interested in the more subtle transformational effects of this therapy.
What to Expect from a Structural Integration Session
Each session starts with an assessment, followed by manual work on the table, seated or standing. It will be mostly manual but there will be also exercises, refining them over time.
History of Structural Integration
Structural integration, or also named Rolfing, is a therapy based on fascia work and postural alignment by the use of both manual work and movement. It could be seen as a mixture between osteopathy, massage and conscious movement for more freedom and connection to gravity and this world.
Frequently Asked Questions about Structural Integration
It is a lot more specialized and considers the position from which the manual therapy is performed. For example, on a massage you lay face down most of the time and release tissue when your position is in quite some curvature in the back with closed chest. In structural integration we like to work more with the “short” tissue so we can open those spaces and bring a lot more balance than in massage. The active participation of the client, who is involved in the session is also very powerful. The therapist doesn’t work on you like in a massage but you both work together with the common purpose/goal.
You can take single sessions or enter a 12 series process depending on your goals. Most people go for the ladder.
Yes. Please share all important and relevant details over your health, history and injuries to your therapist. For certain conditions it might be advisable to take single sessions, rather than having a lot of sessions.
It really can balance the body map of the person, reducing chronic pain and improving quality of life greatly.
Comfortable clothes but your normal daily clothes will do. Most people will be in their underwear during the session but this also can be adjusted to your needs, meaning that some people will prefer to have pants on or t-shirt on, for example.
Yes, specially after a busy period of competition but can be during also.
Structural integration is the generic name of the therapy and Rolfing is a school. I completed my studies with Anatomy Trains, an international education organisation with its origins connected to Tom Myers and Ida Rolf
The role is not passive. In some occasions, this can be a very powerful shift, in the awareness of the person/client. Ideally, they will focus on surrendering to the pressure as well as being connected to it from their inside. For example, working on the front of the shoulder, the client can breath gently yet directly to the pressure from the therapist to change their structure and achieve, together, a new place for the shoulder/ribcage.
I wouldn’t think in terms of how long do the effects last but can the body take over of some parts of itself that it left behind? Is there more empowerment? Is there a new place in the structure, where everything is easier and feels more calm, peaceful and strong at the same time?
Sometimes it will be needed to do more work on something and someone, and other times less. This cannot be predicted beforehand. A guess can be made but it’s still a guess. We aim for this time to be the shortest and somethings will need maintenance, depending on what we do in life and how much we invest in our bodies/wellbeing.
Definitely. As is above, is below, meaning that the physiology rules over the psychology and vice versa, you could argue. Mind and body are connected and improving one you can improve the other one. Of course, the basic stuff is important: sleep, nutrition, daily movement, work, relationships or the circadian rhythm.
Not really, apart from a certain continuity while the process lasts. If you go on holiday for a couple or three weeks, it’s fine but if you can only come 3 times in one year, I would consider naming it a process.
It will depend on what the tissue needs but you can expect basic, transferrable skills and movements that resemble walking, sitting and standing.
Albert will give you some ideas during the process and at the end of the process but your own curiosity and experience will guide you too.
Yes, it can work well, together with many. I would advise to not overload the system, too. Rest is also important. Still, I would not advise to rely solely on structural integration. The subconscious mind can also play into that so one of the goals in my life and therapeutic view is to gain independence and autonomy, freedom and empowerment. Therefore, I would be more or less active, sleep well and exercise often, next to structural integration sessions.
That’s on the core of structural integration. We aim to release and make the fascia of good quality for better life, comfort and movement.
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