Rolfing was my original bodywork experience back in 1979. It helped me redirect the coarse of my life. Within a year of completing the basic 10 series I left my profession as a Structural Engineering in pursuit of a healthier lifestyle. I realized I needed more freedom and more spaciousness to express myself. The corporate world of engineering didn't allow for such an adventurous expression.

Through the Rolfing, I had a newly attained openness that fueled my inherently curious spirit. I sought a more natural lifestyle, while pursuing outdoor interests and travel. In the wildest of places I biked, snowboarded, skied, backpacked, rock climbed and mountaineered my way into who I was becoming. Structural Integration was my goal, though I didn’t realize it at the time.

Thoroughly immersed in an alternative lifestyle, while in Asia on a mountaineering trip, the loss of my partner in a climbing accident pushed me into another unfamiliar arena,. I now had to confront myself on the deepest of all levels, one of intense emotional trauma. With more grief than I thought I could handle and a physical body locked up from the shock, personal healing became a do or die situation. My first year back in the states dragged on ever so slowly as I sought solace in alternative therapies, retreats, and meditation. Nature and the wilderness continued to be my best resource for connecting to my inner healer. My personal healing slowly progressed over the next decade.

During the millennium summer, as a 50th birthday present to myself, I completed a life long ambition of becoming a “Rolfer”. I chose the Guild for Structural Integration for my training because I felt they offered “the heart of Rolfing”. My teachers were Emmett Hutchins and Peter Melchior, Dr. Rolf's first trained teachers and her original "Rolfers", who today as "masters of the craft" continue to passionately hold true to her visions and goals.

I bring this passion, vision, dedication, and continuity to my work. My goal is to assist you in finding balance and integration in your own experiences. Structural Integration helps you to reconnect with yourself through your body. I want you leave each session feeling more empowered, confident, and courageous about the choices you make. I want you to feel good about yourself.

In addition to core structural/postural work, I work with both acute and chronic conditions such as back and neck pain, foot and knee problems, menopause, migraines, wrist and elbow problems, liver, intestinal, and kidney function, detoxing, and TMJ. I bring together over 25 years of hands on healing experience in a multiplicity of modalities.

I use the name Dr. Rolf originally gave to her work, Structural Integration. To help clear any confusion between the use of the terms Rolfer and Structural Integration, please visit www.rolfguild.org for more information on this subject.

In the summer of 2004, I commenced study with another "master bodyworker", Dr. Fritz Smith, the originator of Zero Balancing. Dr. Smith is both a medical doctor and an osteopathic doctor as well as an acupuncturist and trained Rolfer. His studies with Dr. Rolf influenced his discoveries of gentler ways to achieve powerful changes in the body's structural system by engaging the client's energy body along with the structural body.

Most recently, Spring of 2006, I returned to study with my original Structural Integration teacher, Emmett Hutchins in Kauai, achieving my Advanced Certification in Structural Integration.

Advanced Structural Integrator, Guild for Structural Integration. www.rolfguild.org

Licensed Massage Therapist, State of Arizona, soon New Mexico.

Nation Certification Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork.

Certified Zero Balancer www.zerobalancing.com

Rossiter System, assisted stretching, Richard Rossiter. www.surgerysucks.com

Chi Nei Tsang, Internal Organ massage, SWIHA.

Certified Structural Integrator, Guild for Structural Integration, dedicated to the teachings of Dr. Ida P Rolf.

NST/ Neurostructural Integration Technique, International institue of applied Health Services.

BowTech, Bowen Thereapuetic Technique, The Bowen Therapy Academy of Australia.

Thai Massage, Bantautuk Traditional Hospital, Chiangmai, Thailand.

Body Chemistry, Boulder Body Chemistry and others.

BioKinesiology, as taught by Lauri Adato.

Clinical Nutrition, Jeff Bland and others.

Herbology and Nutrition, Masters Candidate, student of Terry Willard, Wild Rose College of Natural Healing, Canada.

Massage Therapy, Bellevue Health and Healing Institue.

BS Engineering, Structural Analysis and Design, Michigan Technological University.

Structural Integration

For the body you love...

Structural Integration (SI) is about our relationship to our body, world, environment, and affairs, as well as our thoughts, feelings and actions.

SI is about learning what it feels like to be in equilibrium, balance, stillness, and centeredness. It gives us the groundwork for a fuller palate of possibilities. Yet, it’s about postural alignment and finding poise in the vertical line. In so doing, it also stretches our mental boundaries. Consider how our internal alignment effects our alignment with our purpose, values, commitments, community, family and friends. As our tissues stretch and lengthen, so does our awareness.

SI releases the connective tissue tension. When tissues are stressed they become dense, dehydrated and shortened over time. SI allows them to return to a more supportive, hydrated, soft, pliable state, enabling us to stay open during stressful times. It becomes easier to maintain our alignment, connection, and presence.

A primary appeal of Structural Integration is in human potential rather than the palliation of symptoms. SI is a continuous inquiry into the energy fields of the body and our relationship to balanced structure. The miracle of symptom relief is only coincidental with the true goals of Structural Integration.

I am a graduate of the Guild for Structural Integration, a school that embraces a commitment to professional excellence in the performance of Dr. Rolf’s standard ten-session series along with a dedication to exploring a path of personal growth, including the transcendental vertical line.

I bring to my work 27 years of hands-on healing experience. My work is an offering of true love, grounded in the spacious presence of heart connection, inherently nourishing and self-organizing.

“... there is an ongoing psychological change as well toward balance, toward serenity, toward a more whole person. The whole person evidences a more apparent, more potent psychic development”.

- Ida P. Rolf, Ph.D.

Hours:

10 am to 7 pm, Monday through Friday.

Fee Schedule:

Structural Integration/ Rolfing and any combination of Structural Bodywork which may or may not include some NST, Bowen, Zero Balancing, Rossiter System, Thai massage, or Chi Nei Tsang, $130. Allow 90 minutes.

Simply NST/ Bowen or Zero Balancing, $90. Allow an hour.

PayPal accepted so you can use either credit card or debit. Must be done before session so it shows up in my account.