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 Engineer 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
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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.
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My Practice includes...
Nashville massage therapist Rebecca Saindon's focus is on integrating neuromuscular massage techniques with corrective exercise for Posture Fitness and pain relief. Nashville Neuromuscular Center (NNC) offers a holistic and scientific approach, blending nutritional consultation, clinical neuromuscular massage with corrective exercise, movement, stretching and strengthening protocols unique to each individual. Perpetual students of functional anatomy and treatment skills, Rebecca and all the NNC therapists strive to stay on the cutting edge of manual medicine. There is a private gym and multiple treatment rooms onsite.
An Energyworker and Spiritual Teacher, Joanie offers Private and Distance Energywork Sessions. She facilitates Energy Workshops, regular Attunement Circles (1st Sundays) and Meditation & Mindfulness Evenings (3rd Wednesdays), and 1-day retreats (Deepening Our Connection with Energy and Source, October 27, 2007). 
Ethel M. Nelson holds a Master of Science In Physical Therapy, and is Certified Techniques in Craniosacral Therapy as approved by the Upledger Institute. CEO of Alternative Solutions for Health, LLC which is a company which distributes the Enagic water filtration systems that creates alkaline water. The Kangen(TM) water is alkaline and offers many benefits to improved health and wellness. 
Are you overprogramed and overwelmed? Are you felling stress? Is being a "Soccer Mom" about to push you over the edge? Are you sore from exercising to stay in shape? Perhaps you are just feeling isolated and in need of human touch? Or maybe, you are recovering from an illness. Then again, you may just need a pleasant interlude in your life. BODY WORK HELPS! You deserve a mini-vacation.
“Our mission is to educate and inspire people to achieve optimal physical, mental and emotional health in a truly holistic way using The BodyTalk System.”
Christie Abeling and Stephen Opper are BODYWISDOM practitioners. They are lifelong students of the mysteries of the body, and advanced practitioners of the movement and healing arts.
Through 10 sessions, a Rolfer will release restrictions/adhesions in a client's connective tissue to create better alignment within gravity. Connective tissue surrounds muscles, bones, and organs. When there is trauma--physical (accident or surgery), emotional (loss of a loved one) mental (job stress), a person's connective tissue hardens, thickens, and shortens. This pulls bones out of normal alignment and creates pain. 
Certified practitioner of Reconnective Healing® and the Reconnection®.
Private Watsu/ WaterDance and Water Release Therapy Sessions with Diane Feingold at Healing Waters & Rehabilitation Institute Santa Barbara.
Alternative Medicine Chiropractor. Serving Lisle, Downers Grove, and Naperville. Non-invasive style of diagnosis and treatment. Focusing on Complete Chiropractic, Nutrition, Acupuncture and Applied Kinesiology. Hablamos Espanol.
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This practice specializes in using Myofascial Release, Cranial sacral, and Biofeedback and Neurofeedback techniques with women and children to gain or regain occupational skills for living. These therapies help the body to heal more fully by getting to the root of pain, movement, and behaviors that interfere with meaningful occupational activities. By irradicating the root problem, the body can heal so you can enjoy life's activities again! 
Lori takes a holistic approach to promoting health and well-being through yoga therapy, Reiki, craniosacral therapy, therapeutic massage, and journal writing. Combining medical intuition with traditional and holistic physical therapy techniques, Lori will work with you to reduce stress, pain, and dysfunction and achieve optimal health of body, mind, and spirt. 
By combining the gentle touch of CranioSacral Therapy, the emotional depths of SomatoEmotional Release, the energy balancing ability of Reiki,Integrated Energy Therapy and Huna, the deep transformations of Neuro Linguistic Programming and Time Line Therapy, you can start a very powerful process of healing that will bring your whole body, mind and soul into balance.
