What is Structural Integration?
Structural Integration aligns and balances the body by lengthening and repositioning the fascia, also known as connective tissue. The fascia surrounds the muscles, bones and organs in the body. The fascia gives muscles their shape and the body its structure.
Rolf Movement
Structural Integration has at its inception a series of movements and exercises learned by Dr. Rolf from Amy Cochran, an osteopath. Structural Integration is the combination of applied pressure to lengthen the tissue, while calling for specific organizing patterns of movement. It is the nature of these organizing movements that generates the principles of the Rolf Movement work.
Dr. Ida P. Rolf
Ida P. Rolf, a native New Yorker, graduated from Barnard College in 1916. She earned her Ph.D in Biological Chemistry in 1920 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. She worked as a research scientist for the Rockefeller Institute in New York for the next 12 years. In 1927 she studied mathematics and physics at the Swiss Technical University in Zurich. During this time she also studied homeopathic medicine in Geneva.