Structural Integration Equals A Body That Runs Energy
face. It was really a good day. I hadn’t felt this good in a long time. Then I felt the sensation. A strong tingling moved up to both of my wrists and vibrated. Surprised and humbly stilled, I just observed. When it stopped, the pain in my wrists was gone!
By Jean Louise Green
“Take off your boots!” “Huh?” “Take off your boots!”
I heard it again, this time louder. It was an early rainy spring morning in 2011. I was in my garden and my wrists hurt from doing lots of work and wheelbarrowing two cubic yards of worm castings.
I had told myself that I wanted to show up with more of a big “yes” for my internal cues. There was no denying that this was one of them. I felt my resistance on that chilly wet day as I literally stepped out of another pattern and flung my rubber boots off. Guess I would learn to shovel barefooted. The moist garden soil felt good between my toes. As I looked up, the wind caught my hair and found my
Like the “Energizer Bunny,” I continued to work through the day into night with my headlamp until my barefoot work was done. The next day I awoke with absolutely no pain anywhere in my body! How could that be? It has to do with having a body that runs energy through it. Let’s look at the bodywork of structural integration and how it optimizes the flow of energy through the connective tissues of the body. If you imagine how it feels to have a fluid, light, balanced body, free of pain, stiffness, and chronic stress, at ease with itself and the Earth’s gravitational field, then you’ll understand the goals of structural integration. It begins with Dr. Ida P. Rolf, the founder of structural integration. In 1916, 20-year-old Ida P.
Rolf was on a campout in the Rockies and kicked by a horse. It left her with impaired breathing and a severe fever. When she sought medical help, an osteopath treated her with a simple spinal manipulation. Immediately, her fever reduced and her breathing normalized. In that life-changing
moment, Ida realized that structure determines function.
Four years later she received her PhD in biochemistry and continued to study osteopathy, homeopathy, yoga, and to do hands-on
healing work. Ida developed unique ideas of how the body comprises segmented parts, of the malleability of the connective tissues, and of the body’s relationship to gravity. By 1965, at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, Dr. Rolf began teaching her work, which she called structural integration, also known as “Rolfing” by her students.
In structural integration, the major body segments are organized around a central axis called the “Line.” This is done in a series of 10 sessions that Dr. Rolf described as a “recipe,” the culmination of her life’s work. It’s a blueprint for organizing the layers of the body’s connective tissues that form a continuous interconnected
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