helping you heal with touch, dialogue & movement
by Ross Short
Have you ever experienced chronic pain? Have you exhausted all of the options out there? I know I did. I have had 11 knee surgeries due to sports injuries. I fi nally ended up in the Victoria Pain Clinic where I was introduced to a smorgasbord of therapeutic modalities. I could actually feel the pain leaving my body during my “Hellerwork” sessions. This was an “aha” moment for me. My medical condition forced me to reassess my life. It was time to leave my physically taxing career in the R.C.M.P. I took the Hellerwork Structural Integration training and I have never looked back. I have been a practitioner for 15 years.
What is Hellerwork Structural Integration (SI) you may ask? The fi eld of Structural Integration was founded by Dr. Ida P. Rolf, a biochemist. Rolf described the body as a plastic medium that is adaptable and changeable.
Bodywork in the SI context is the direct manipulation of the myofascial system. A practitioner skillfully uses elbows, fi ngers, and knuckles to work on the connective tissue of the body at various depths, pressures and speeds. When connective tissue is balanced around joints and tensions are released, the body will move with greater fl uidity and fl exibility.
Joseph Heller, a NASA aerospace engineer, became deeply interested in the body/mind realm and left his career to train with Ida Rolf. Joseph understood that Structural Integration is even more effective when combined with movement education and personal awareness work, and thus Hellerwork was born.
Think of driving your car as a metaphor for this work. When you have an accident, the damage is very clear and you take your vehicle to the body shop. The technician repairs the scratch or dent, then paints and makes your vehicle look new again. Perhaps you need to learn to be more careful - more conscious - about your driving. Those improvements will require concentration and a willingness to be present and aware. Sometimes you must learn about yourself at a deeper level to reduce distraction and become a better driver. Driving your vehicle and being in your body are similar in these aspects, but your body is the vehicle in which you move through every experience in your life - you only have one body - so how you treat it and how you maintain it deserves your attention.
I provide my clients with an integrated system of deep tissue bodywork, movement education, and light touch energy work designed to release chronic tension and realign the body with gravity. I use my fi ngers, knuckles and elbows to work out the knots in soft fascial tissue. I use movement education to assist my clients in becoming more conscious of their posture and breathing. I use self awareness dialogue to focus on the integration of mind and body. Using a computer analogy, the structural integration process works at changing the “hardware/the body”, while the movement and self awareness dialogue work at changing the “software/the mind.”
When you complete the 11 session Hellerwork series, your body is in a new state of alignment. It is balanced and moves more freely. You have become aware of your body and its needs. My mantra is, “Fit, Happy and Healthy, Balanced in Body, Mind and Spirit.”
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