01/04/2025
For our fact this Friday- let's dive into a question I recieve often!
✨️What is the difference between Massage and Structural Integration?✨️
Massage focuses on relaxing and bringing circulation to the outermost layer of tissue and muscles- this promotes relaxation, relieves pain, and can help to prevent injury.
Structural Integration is targeting the fascia and the restrictions within it( fascia being basically a web that connects throughout the entire body-the muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, ect).
Going into a session I get a feel for entire horses body, gain a trust so they are comfortable with the next step- finding areas of the fascia that are held- and then further working to unravel the puzzle of where the ROOT cause is. Alot of times when you find a holding of fascia there are more lingering in the deep that caused that initial one the practioner felt. This can affect the entire body- for example: one holding can be restricting movement in the right shoulder- creating compensation in left hind- the ribs become held, and so on!
The puzzle is what gets your horse feeling their best! And I'm crazy about being able to help solve it using primarily Structural Integration, but also Massage included!
In case you were wondering- there are Structural Integration sessions for yourself as well! Do a quick search with our friend Google- Structural
Integration or Rolfing in your area and look into having a series done on yourself! The results were mind blowing for me and I highly recommend having work done on yourself!
Below is a good watch on how Fasica works and how it affects the body! (This goes for horses as well
From the Life 360 Health and Wellness Summit 2018by Dana Sterling Founder of Sterling Structural TherapyTo learn more click https://sterlingstructuraltherapy...