Recent experience has again shown me the benefits in keeping yourself balanced if you have been injured and if you can, to begin that process sooner rather than not.

Otherwise compensation sets in.

We need to work not only the problem points but connecting the
areas so they can all work together…

Connections.

Like a sail boat: sail, gunwales, lines, etc. need to be functioning on their own with all the parts working together … so to begin the next adventure.

Patterns of movement
in an individual,
reinforce chronic
discomforts and
limitations.

Structural Integration
begins to free those restrictions which allow the body to lengthen and become more fluid in movement.

Ida P. Rolf

…Lack of tone in the rhomboids also allows the scapulae to wander too far from the vertebral column; the bones are no longer flat—they “wing” out.

The practitioner in Structural Integration accomplishes this by manually restraining the muscle, bringing it toward its “normal” position and then demanding specific directional movement of the part. Suddenly, the restricted joint moves; it moves more normally. The constituent myofascia is permanently in a new position, nearer that demanded by pattern.”

From Ida P. Rolf

Everything works in a circular pattern. Nature works in a circular pattern, curved patterns, spirals, not straight lines. The old adage about running around in circles… 

So too circular thinking.  It brings the thought continually before you and builds on that momentum by the continuation of that thought.

Until it turns to action and a completion of that thought.

Scientists used to believe that the brain stopped developing once humans reached adulthood. 

Advances in medical imaging technologies, however, have discredited this understanding of the brain, which we now recognize as an extraordinarily dynamic organ that continues to develop in response to environmental stimuli throughout our lives. This phenomenon is known as neuroplasticity.

Neuroplasticity allows our brains to continuously change and adapt, forging new neural connections as needed, and abandoning pathways we no longer use. 

Neuroplasticity makes it possible for the brain to cope with dramatic environmental changes, like traumatic injury, as healthy nerve cells seek out connections with each other to compensate for damage and restore function.(alta mira)

The body wants to belong. It seeks to connect with other areas of itself to help those that are not functioning as well.  It seeks to connect to compensate for damage and restore function.  So does the brain.neruo for blog

We look to develop Form to restore Flexibility and Movement capability.  Structural Integration body work, developed by Ida P.

Rolf, WILL get the body back to a more functional form.  So you can continue your daily activities — Restored.