Structural Bodywork can decrease repetitive stress injuries, improve athletic endurance and competitiveness, produce greater flexibility and lightness in the body and increase breathing capacity. It can increase energy, improve posture, symmetry and balance, increase flexibility and ease of movement, decrease chronic pain and free the body from constraints caused by years of poor posture, stress, or injury.
Full overview of the 10 sessions series
The Ten Session Model for Structural Bodywork is based on four distinct segments including: A) Sleeve Sessions, B) Core Sessions, C) Bridge Session, and D) Integrative Sessions. They are detailed below.
A. SLEEVE SESSIONS
1. Lengthens the front line of the body; opening to breathe work.
2. Legs; balances the weight displacement in the feet; grounding.
3. Lengthens the sideline of the body, freeing shoulder girdle, and establishing an energetic relationship between the pelvis and shoulder girdle.
B. CORE SESSIONS
4. Releases the pelvic underpinning, balancing the pelvic floor, and opens up the pelvis energetically.
5. Releases top pinning of the pelvis, opens abdominal muscles, and establishes a relationship between the upper and lower regions of the body.
6. Releases pelvic torque; establishes a pelvic position at the tensional base for the vertebral column in the lower back; integrates of the spinal functioning with breath.
C. BRIDGE SESSION
7. Focuses on the placement of the head over the body, releases cranial fascia musculature and establishes the energetic connection between the head and body.
D. INTEGRATIVE SESSIONS
8. Integrates the breath, alignment, range of motion, and joint stability in the upper half of the body.
9. Integrates the breath, alignment, range of motion, and joint stability in the lower half of the body.
10. Integrates the breath, alignment, range of motion, and joint stability in the whole body.
