Bruce Kenyon
Awareness and action foster resilience. Overtime, you may notice gravity progressively and exponentially compressing your body. Eventually, joints will fuse together, leading to significantly decreased potential for range of motion. Nerves may pinch, trigger points multiple.
While this does happen, it’s not inevitable. Through intentional physical and mental realignment—both passive and active—you can begin to re-pattern posture and movement.
Instead of a contracting force we work with gravity through the breathe and the pleasure principle* to create expansion from within. After several sessions you may discover a sensation like walking on a cloud.
With a growing sense of body awareness you will be on your way to becoming a Cloud Walker.
Cloud Walker Structural Integration
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Avoid Surgery --Move Freely
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Treat Chronic Pain at it's Root Cause.
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Access Increased Energy
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Unlock your Body's Innate Potential
Each year in the U.S., more than 300,000 lumbar spine fusion surgeries are performed. Additionally, over one million knee and hip replacements are done annually.
In addition to thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket costs and months to years of recovery time, these procedures often result in permanent loss of joint or spinal range of motion.
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(NIH / AHRQ / New England Journal of Medicine)
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The reality is that these surgery are largly preventable, and are the result of both modern ways of living and a severely lacking education system.
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Structural Integration
A Multifaceted Approach
Structural Integration
Osteopathic manual therapy.
A series of 6 sessions is recommended for most people--this allows for full body decompression and fascial unwinding. At the same time re-patterning postures and movements will be practiced.
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Moves the soft tissue to support the bones.
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Moves the bones towards functional ideal
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Repatterns movement by teaching the client to engage within this new alignment
Deep Tissue Massage / MyoFascial Release
Myo-Fascial Release is working with the attachments of a muscle. Some strengths to this type of massage are as follows:
Knowing where the muscles attach allows for excellerated treatements and self care
Fascia is constantly forming to reinforce whatever acton (or non-action) we are taking. We can use this information to inspire movement.
Acupressure
Acupressure utilizes the Traditional Chinese Medicine mapping and insights of the organs' energetic channels, or "meridian lines" throughout our body. Acupressure is often a great aid in structural integration and can be highly versatile: ​
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When an injury occurs, applying pressure to acupoints along the meridian of said injury, will create a flow of energy and likely reduce pain.
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If a postural pattern isn't responding well to structural integration techniques, its likely tied to an emotional response pattern. Acupressure is excellent for moving emotional blocks.
Neuro-Muscular/ Trigger Point Therapy
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Nueromuscular trigger points are spots of metabolic accumulation and facial encapsulations that exist within chronically contracted muscles. They cause pain or other sensations to travel through the body and can manifest in a variety of ways, including:
Numbness in the extremities
Headaches
Dull, achy pain
Limited range of motion
Fatigue
Dizziness
Craniosacral
Craniosacral Therapy originally was developed by an osteopath and can be categorized in two ways- Biomechanical and Biodynamic. Both are strongly influenced by intention and awareness of anatomy. I utilized both to decompress the cranium as well as to facilitate cerebral fluid release. Fascia often builds up at the brainstem and restricts flow. Craniosacral therapy is a deeply nourishing technique that can have a large range of associated benefits- mechanical and emotional.
*The Pleasure Principle*
Great News!
Bodywork—and your active effort in re-patterning your joints, fascia, posture, and movement—should feel good.
Treating neuromuscular trigger points and releasing large fascial compartments may feel painful in the moment, but there is an important difference between “good” pain and “bad” pain. Good pain is typically followed by relief or pleasure, creating a sense of ease and increased fluid or energy flow. Bad pain tends to persist and may increase compression or stagnation.
Additionally, when your joints glide in an ideal position, this should feel warm and pleasant—an excellent form of real-time positive reinforcement.
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About Myself
I’ve always been interested in massage as a way to connect with others. In 2014 I found the Massage Therapy Institute of Colorado (MTIC) in Denver Colorado. From my first introduction to this school and its teachers, I glimpsed the potential of effective bodywork. T.A’s, teachers, clients, and the general community of this school seemed to have a highly progressive outlook on one’s ability to change. I quickly found a passion for bodywork and became fascinated with the mechanical and nuanced energetic aspects. First and second-hand experience of emotional releases during and after certain routines deepened my respect for the practice. This lead to an ongoing investigation of emotions being tied to holding patterns .
Over the course of MTIC’s year two program, which focused on Structural Integration, I engaged in and witnessed a progression of my own structural and emotional state. With this internalized knowledge I have been able to facilitate change, and teach others to self-correct postural and gait deviations.
I have logged over 1700 hours of training at MTIC. Since starting out in 2015 I've worked with private clients and at health clinics in Boulder Colorado, Santa Barbara, and now Ojai, CA.
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I am now on my third year of grad school at Naropa University, practicing Somatic Psychotherapy. The reality of stagnation of the flow of energy in the in the body overlapping mental blockages--has profound implication for treatment plans.