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BODYWORK - ANATOMY TRAINS STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION - ATSI
"The body is inherently a system of seamless networks of tissues rather than a collection of separate parts. These connective tissues surround, support and penetrate all of the muscle bones, nerves and organs.
This is the stuff that shapes us and gives us both stability and mobility."-'Rich Ennis"
The design of ATSI is to unwind the strain patterns residing in your body’s fascial web system, restoring it to its natural balance, alignment, length, and ease.
Individual strain patterns come from imitation when we are young, from the invasions of injury, surgery or birth, and from our body’s response to traumatic episodes. Beginning as a simple reactions to these episodes, strain patterns become a neuromuscular habits leading to imbalanced and often unperceived repetitive, misaligned movements and postures.
Any misalignment means that gravity's pull on us can increase our body's natural tension which works to keep us in balance - our body compensates and this compensation begets even more compensation ultimately leading to potentially degenerating symptoms.
Bodywork - ATSI is designed to unwind the tension caused by this compensation and reduce structural stress. Recuperation of our natural postural balance, ease of movement, and a feeling of being more at home in your own body.
This approach is practiced in an organised series of 3 to 12 sessions individually designed to restore postural balance by aligning and integrating the body along it's myofascial lines, back into gravity.
After ATSI sessions, changes in the inner body feeling and in the everyday posture are usually immediate and increase over time. Individual plans for homework in everyday life are offered to ensure that these changes are also permanent.
Two approaches are offered:
To receive Bodywork - ATSI
If you already have concrete ideas and aims, or simply if you would like to find out what ATSI feels like, an initial consultation or trial session is recommended.
At the beginning, questions regarding your state of health and your expectations will be clarified in a conversation. This followed by manual treatment (approx. 80-90 min), which is adapted to your individual needs.
To receive Sarpa Yoga Fascia Therapy:
The first session consists of discussion of your state of health and your expectations followed by a first analysis of your postural and asana alignment. This is followed by a basic asana class combined with hands-on bodywork (approx. 80-90 min), which is adapted to your individual needs aiming at more ease and comfort during your yoga practice.
BODYWORK - NEUROVASCULAR RELEASE - NVR
When you have reduced the body’s subconscious need to protect the neural and vascular networks, a client will have less pain, more efficient movement, better proprioception, more productive stretching, and greater freedom.
This approach works on freeing up the nerves. Just like any other structure in our fascial web, the nerves and arteries can be fixed or “stuck” in a particular position or pattern. Nerves may be “pinched” or tethered in their fascial pathways and arteries can hold intrinsic tension much like muscle tissue.
Because the body cares a lot about what is happening with the nerves and blood supply, when these structures are held in a particular pattern/ under tension, the body will “guard” these structures in such a way as to limit range of motion or to promote a particular pattern of movement.
This story may sound familiar to some of you. Over the years, I have worked one-on-one, in person to help change patterns in body systems, sometimes I have worked specifically with the nerves and arteries in mind as part of an ATSI therapy sessions. In many cases, this has facilitated decreased pain and discomfort and more ease in day-to-day life.