Imagine using your body free of pain, stiffness or chronic stress.
What is Hellerwork Structural Integration?
Through education, awareness, and therapeutic touch, you can release painful, stressful patterns of tension, replacing effortful habits with comfort and ease.
SI systematically addresses your body as a whole, usually over a series of sessions. Skillful touch brings relief from pain and discomfort, and awareness to how you're holding and using your body. Together, we engage in an inquiry around how you relate with your body and environment.
This adds up to a more adaptable, resilient, authentic, and enjoyable experience of your body, and life. This is physical education for the 21st century.
- Recognize patterns of tension that no longer serve you.
- Discover new options for movement/posture.
- Explore useful ways of thinking about your physical experience.
- Apply relevant self-care strategies to support your continued well-being.
“This is the important concept: that Rolfers are integrating something; we are not restoring something… It takes us out of the domain designated by the word “therapy” and puts us into the domain designated by the word “education.” …we are less therapists than we are educationists… This is what I mean, this is my goal: an educational process.”
— Ida Rolf, PhD, from "Rolfing and Physical Reality"
Coachella Valley Hellerwork SI helps you achieve a higher level of well being. Working with you, we identify where you have movement restrictions, tension and pain. During the bodywork sessions we apply continuous deep pressure while you make directed slow movements. Before long you develop heightened awareness that you chronically hold unnecessary and painful tension. With encouragement and guidance you let go. Immediately you feel significant change as the release of tension makes that freed energy available to help you become the best you.
Our bodies have an ideal alignment which allows us to move and act with maximum efficiency and comfort. However, due to habitually bad posture and movement patterns, injury, trauma, stress and eventually even the effects of gravity, we fall out of that ideal alignment. Hellerwork Structural Integration is designed through a series of sessions to realign the body into an optimal alignment for overall health, improvement of posture, and reduction of stress.
Hellerwork also successfully treats such specific physical problems as sciatica, chronic back, neck, shoulder, and joint pain as well as repetitive stress injuries, including carpal tunnel syndrome. It’s frequently used to treat and prevent athletic injuries.