"Trauma is biology, not psychology." Aimie Apigian, MD

The experience of trauma resides in the body.

Fascia or connective tissue surrounds everything in your body: bones, organs, muscles, nerves, and makes up the fluid environment around every cell. Through the fascia you have the ability to influence your health dramatically.

A foundation of Sustainable Body, Structural Integration is a holistic system of soft tissue manipulation and movement education which aims to align the human body in the gravitational field.

The Deep Front and Back Lines While the fascia comprises a single web or net, Thomas Myers, a Rolfing practitioner/teacher and a pioneer in the research on fascia, introduced a new map for the fascial web.

Zero Balancing, developed by Dr. Fritz Smith, is a hands-on therapy which is a bridge between Eastern theories of energy and Western human anatomy.

Sustainable Body combines the alignment of the skeleton at its foundation and semi-foundation joints, the alignment of the fascial web from the Deep Front and Back Lines (the Inner Core), and activates and integrates these dynamic systems through movement. When you do this, your body becomes a suspension system, not a compression system. Why? Because we are all brilliantly designed to suspend our bodies through tensegrity.

We can reclaim our suspension system by aligning our vertical skeleton, activating the myofascial Inner Core and training a healthy, resilient fascial system. If we envision the body using the paradigm of its continuous fascial fabric, we need to shift how we look at body movement.