IN HER OWN WORDS

“Structural Integration is a technique which aims at organizing and ordering a body … bringing muscles back into the place that they belong, in terms of their theoretical order. This is part of a technique to make a person feel more efficient, to make them better organized, better coordinated … because he is in the gravitational field … and accepting and working IN it, and working WITH it, instead of fighting it, as the average random body has to do.

In Structural Integration, we expect to give a cycle of ten sessions. There is a reason for this. We are not dealing with local problems. We are not dealing with the kind of thing that you can say, “Well, I fixed that. That’s all.” We are dealing with an attempt to make a body a sturdier human being … to make a body more secure, more adequate, within the field of gravity.

So, this requires that muscles be balanced. They need to be balanced around a vertical line; and when I’m talking about balancing muscles, I’m talking about balancing the right side against the left side … about balancing the front of the body against the back of the body … and finally, about balancing the innermost muscles against the outermost muscles … the inside against the outside. This is the most important of those balances, and we start from the outside, working in; and it takes us ten hours before we can really get to the place where we can balance inside versus outside.”

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