What Is Structural Integration?

It’s a hands-on method that works with fascia — the connective tissue running continuously through your body — alongside movement education and somatic awareness.

Instead of treating the place that hurts, it changes how the whole structure is organized in gravity. Release tension, improve posture, and the body finds more ease and balance on its own. It’s in a class of its own, and it will leave you feeling better than before.

Rolfing® is Structural Integration — it’s the original method, developed by Dr. Ida Rolf, and the name is trademarked to graduates of her institute.

Hellerwork® is a later branch that leans harder on movement and awareness. Structural Integration is the umbrella field all of them sit under. If you’ve been searching for Rolfing® in Brooklyn, Structural Integration is the field you’re looking for.

Myofascial release is a technique: sustained pressure applied to a restricted area to ease it and reduce pain, often fairly locally.

Structural Integration uses that technique inside a whole-body, postural method. The question isn’t only “where does it hurt” but “what arrangement keeps producing this?” — which is why it’s delivered as a progression rather than a single treatment.

No, though the two get confused — and fairly, since you’re on a table and the pressure goes deep. A massage works muscle, and it aims at how you feel when you get up off the table.

Structural Integration works fascia, and it aims at how you’re put together: where your ribs sit over your pelvis, which side takes the load when you walk. You stay clothed, you’ll be asked to stand and walk partway through, and you leave with something to practice.

We open with a check-in and a simple movement assessment — how you’re standing, how you’re walking, where things aren’t travelling well.

Then slow, intentional pressure to release tension and guide the body back toward balance. You may be asked to stand, walk, or breathe while I work, because integrating a change is what makes it stay.

We look again at the end so you can feel the difference, and you’ll leave with something simple to practice.

Chronic pain and stiffness, fatigue and burnout, long-term stress patterns, desk posture and tech neck, climbing and running and gym injuries, nervous system regulation — and that particular frustration of feeling “off” with no clear diagnosis.

It’s especially useful for people who’ve already been through physical therapy, massage, chiropractic, and acupuncture without lasting relief.

Sessions run 60–75 minutes and cost $240 — a full hour of high-touch, one-on-one work rather than a few minutes of a practitioner’s time between rooms.

They’re held every Wednesday from 10am to 2pm, and you choose your slot during booking. Climbing gym members receive a 15% discount.

The tradition is a ten-session series, working the whole body systematically from head to toe — each session builds on the one before, which is why it’s structured rather than open-ended.

That said, plenty of people feel a clear difference after one. You can also book as needed and return for tune-ups once things have settled. We’ll pick the approach that matches what you’re after.

No. Sessions are fully clothed — gym or yoga wear is perfect. Fitted or loose shorts with a sports bra, or gym shorts, give the access the work needs.

Leave necklaces, bracelets, and watches off, and tie long hair back. Your comfort and privacy come first throughout.

It’s deep work, and some of it is intense, but pain isn’t the mechanism — release is. Most people describe a productive ache rather than something they have to brace against.

Bracing would actually work against the goal, so we stay at a pressure you can stay soft under, and you can change it at any moment.

Not by insurance. FSA and HSA funds usually work with a doctor’s note, and I’m happy to help you figure out what to ask your physician for.

24 hours’ notice to cancel or reschedule keeps your deposit refundable. Inside that window the full session price is charged.

An appointment is only cancelled once our office sends a confirmation email — if it doesn’t arrive, email maya@helloalignment.com immediately so no late charge lands.