About hellerwork® structural integration

Hellerwork® is a heart-centered approach that utilizes integrated bodywork, movement education, and somatic dialogue while also attending to all aspects of being human: body, mind, energy, emotions, and spirit. This holistic process explores the interconnectedness of how you use and experience your body so that you can find relief of discomfort, ease of movement and posture, and a sense of whole-body coherence.

Integrated bodywork focuses on the fascia, a connective tissue that wraps the entire body; surrounding muscles, muscle fibers, bones, nerves and organs. Continual tension or stress on the fascia can cause it to become rigid, stuck, shortened, or tight. This can further reduce range of motion and cause discomfort and pain. The hands-on process aims to identify these areas of restricted fascia and lines of strain in the fascial network, and works to restore ease and fluidity of movement.

Movement Education offers a chance to understand the patterns of movement that may be leading to restriction and discomfort and re-educates the body in new possibilities of improved alignment. Effortful habits are identified and replaced with new options for movement, posture, and self-care.

Somatic Dialogue provides the space to develop an understanding of the mind-body connection. This offers an opportunity to learn how our emotions, thoughts and the body’s messages from chronic tension and holding patterns can affect both our psychological state and the tone of our nervous system. The improved self-awareness that occurs with this process helps connect us to our innate wisdom and vitality, enabling us to wholly inhabit and fully express ourselves in the world.

Available as individual sessions or as a comprehensively designed series of sessions.

 Single Session: In these sessions we will use an approach that focuses on what you would like to address in your body at that time. This allows us to go at a pace that feels right for you and meets your more immediate needs.

The Series: The series is designed to follow a systematic sequence that offers a comprehensive journey through the body’s individual parts and layers. Over the course of the series we progress through the superficial layers, then the deeper core layers, and finally integration.