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Structural Integration (also known as Rolfing ®) is a form of therapy for the body developed by Ida Rolf in the 20th century in the United States that aims to physically modify the body's muscular connective tissue (fascia) to help organize a person's overall structure. The practitioner will apply pressure in a systematic way in order to release the fascia and thus help the body go a more structurally optimal position.

The overall goal is to find a sens of balance that comes from the core. Dr. Rolf developed a way to accomplish this in ten progressive segments, thus the ten sessions. The first three sessions are opening, the next four are organizing, and the last three are integrating. These ten sessions have been tested on thousands of people and have shown to provide a foundation from which a person may better realize his or her fuller potential.

After ten sessions, clients report sensations of greater overall ease with their body. Good posture becomes effortless.

When the body gets working appropriately, the force of gravity can flow through.
Then, spontaneously, the body heals itself.
- Ida P. Rolf
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Ida P. Rolf and the soft tissue technique

Ida P. Rolf began developing her method of working with bodes in the 1930s. According to Rosemary Feitis, longtime collaborator of Ida Rolf and author of The Endless Web, "At that time and up into the 1950s, received wisdom stated that soft tissue could not hold a change. Myofascia per se was not even considered as a a determinant of structure. Bone-setting (osteopathy, chiropractic) was the only treatment for structure that was then considered effective. Today, many forms of bodywork include a soft tissue technique."

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