Board Certified Structural Integration

Structural IntegrationI read the whole body, not just the place that hurts.

Hands on bodywork that reorganizes your whole body in gravity by working with fascia, the connective tissue linking every muscle and bone. Over a planned series I release the patterns holding you in pain and pulling you out of alignment, so the relief actually lasts.

Mia GleasonGrass Valley / Nevada City90 minute sessions
Reading the line
Alexander School of Massage The SOMA Institute, Structural Integration Polestar Pilates, Certified Instructor Anatomy Trains, Structural Integration with Tom Myers Advanced Anatomy Trains Structural Integration Alexander School of Massage The SOMA Institute, Structural Integration Polestar Pilates, Certified Instructor Anatomy Trains, Structural Integration with Tom Myers Advanced Anatomy Trains Structural Integration

“Where you think it is, it ain’t.”

Ida Rolf
Symptoms

Does this sound familiar?

  • Temporary massage relief that never seems to last
  • Pain that keeps moving or returning
  • A wish to understand your body, not just be treated
  • Posture to rebuild after birth, injury, or desk years
  • A readiness to fix the cause, not the symptom
Anatomy
Neutral pelvis and lumbar curve Lumbar curve Pelvic bowl Sacral base
The Anatomy Trains method

I treat the whole body, not the sore spot.

Where it hurts is almost never where it started. I follow the fascial lines that connect everything and bring the whole system back into balance.

Built on Tom Myers' work, who is a student of Ida Rolf, who deepened the work, founded his own school, and wrote the best-selling Anatomy Trains and Thirty Years of My Own Hands. Each session follows an order, and each one sets up the next.

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Integration
Choose your path

Pick the path that fits.

Twelve session structural integration body map
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12 Session Series

The full arc90 min each$175 / hour

The full journey. Twelve sessions, each opening a new territory and building on the last, until your whole structure settles back over a true vertical. This is the work that changed my own life.

Start the series
Three session targeted region
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3 Session Series

StarterTargeted90 min each$175 / session$120 / hour

One thing you want sorted? Three focused sessions on a single pattern. A deep experience of the work, so your body can get acquainted.

Book a 3 series
Autonomic nervous system balance
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Somatic Integration

Nervous system55 min each$120 initial session$95 / 55 min thereafter

For bodies hanging onto stress or old overwhelm. We go at your pace and never past it. Slow, nervous-system-aware work, paced entirely to what you can hold.

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Packages that go further.

3 Starter 90 min each, $175 per session. Choose 3
5 Deepening 90 min each, $170 per session. Choose 5
12 The full arc 90 min each, $165 per session. Choose 12

What to expect.

Read

I watch how you stand and move, and find the spots holding the whole pattern together.

Release

Hands-on work opens the fascia that is driving it, one territory at a time.

Realign

Bit by bit, your structure settles back over true vertical.

Retrain

You leave with movement to do and a real sense of why, so it holds.

Benefits

How my work can help you.

Relief that lasts.

This changes the structure, so the relief tends to outlast anything a massage gave you.

Backed by the science.

Grounded in fascial research and the Anatomy Trains model, sharpened over nearly thirty years.

Built around you.

A short arc or the full journey. I will tell you which one you need after the first session.

Move like yourself again.

Get your spine and balance back. We retrain how you stand and move so it carries into your actual life, not just the table.

Leave knowing your body.

You walk out understanding what is going on, not depending on me to keep fixing it. That is the whole point.

Stand tall, breathe easy.

As the fascia lets go, your ribs open and your posture settles back over a true vertical. Breathing gets easier without trying.

Age with ease and power.

Keep your mobility, balance, and spring as the years add up. Strong and capable, not careful and stiff.

Care made for women.

Unhurried, skilled work for postpartum, perimenopause, and the female pelvis. The attention this part of you rarely gets.

Grounded in real training.

Built on fascial research and the Anatomy Trains method, sharpened over nearly thirty years of hands-on work.

Common questions

Questions, answered.

How is this different from massage?
Massage feels great and wears off. This changes the actual architecture of your body, so it lasts, and you leave knowing how to keep it.
Does it hurt?
It can get intense, but we stay in conversation the whole time and never go past what you can take. Most people call it satisfying, not painful.
How many sessions do I need?
Three sessions for one specific goal, twelve for the whole body. I will point you to the right one once we start.
Can this help my chronic pain?
A lot of people land here after nothing else worked, and find relief once we deal with the structural cause. This is not medical treatment and does not replace your doctor.
What happens in the first session?
We start by looking at how you stand and move, then I work the fascial lines holding your pattern in place. You stay in light clothing you can move in, and we work together through communication and skilled touch.
How is this different from physical therapy or chiropractic?
Physical therapy rehabs a specific injury and chiropractic adjusts joints. I reorganize the whole fascial structure in gravity, so your body stops recreating the problem. The work sits comfortably alongside both.
Do you take insurance?
Sessions are out of pocket and not billed to insurance, though many clients use an HSA or FSA. Single sessions are $175 for 90 minutes and $120 for an hour, with 3, 5, and 10 session packages available.
Will the results last?
That is the whole point. Because this changes your structure rather than soothing a symptom, the relief tends to hold for months and years, especially once you keep up the simple movement I send you home with.

Permanent change starts with structure.

One on one in Grass Valley / Nevada City. Limited spaces available.