Rosa Amoroso - Hellerwork Structural Integration and Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Canary Wharf, The City, London, UK

HELLERWORK

It is very easy to take our bodies for granted until, that is, they break down.

Hellerwork Structural Integration is for anyone interested in improving their quality of life, health and well-being. A unique and dynamic form of deep-tissue bodywork, Hellerwork is designed to equip you with the tools to show you how you perceive and think about your body. It will enable you to move more efficiently and gracefully than ever before and to live the principles of that understanding and new found expression.

By restoring equilibrium and balance to the body, freeing you of old restrictions built up over years of repetitive habitual patterns, a new level of awareness and freedom is restored to your body and mind.

Originally developed by Dr. Ida Rolf ( Rolfing TM ), Structural Integration moves the body towards optimal alignment which is achieved by adjusting the body’s relationship with gravity. This is achieved through a Series of sessions progressing from the superficial to the deeper structure, restoring one’s natural posture. Following Ida Rolf's lineage, Joseph Heller incorporated movement education and body-centred human development processes creating Hellerwork.

DEEP-TISSUE BODYWORK involves hands-on manipulation of the body’s connective tissues. This restores balance to the muscles and re-introduces fluidity and elasticity to the body. Clients are often taken aback by just how quickly their flexibility is regained and their body shape and alignment improves.

Paintings by Claire (www.artbyclaire.com)

MOVEMENT EDUCATION is essential to this work. Here we are re-minding your body of where it naturally knows it needs to be. The painting shown here depicts dogs on point. Their bodies naturally express what they are incapable of communicating in words. How conscious are you of the language you express through your body in everyday life?

By updating postural patterns which are no longer valid in addition to the freedom restored through bodywork, the effects incurred are those of lasting change.

When ease and flexibility are restored to your body, energy that you might otherwise waste tensing muscles can be better used on more constructive activities; be they everyday tasks or your own specialised activities or hobbies.

Painting from www.encore-editions.com

DIALOGUE. Self-awareness facilitated through dialogue is an important component of the Hellerwork Series. Helping to recognise how emotions, attitudes and belief systems can have an impact on our bodies to the point of creating distress and dis-ease, as well as tension patterns.

CONNECTIVE TISSUE AND FASCIA. Hellerwork focuses on the matrix of connective tissue known as fascia. In a well balanced body the fascia is loose and moist but under continual stress, overuse or lack of movement it becomes dry, stiff and rigid. Layers glue together creating what we recognise as “knots” in our muscles.

Through hands-on manipulation, practitioners stretch and release this gluing and increase blood flow to an area, thereby restoring fluidity to the tissues.

Fascia Diagram
Fascia wraps all the muscles, muscle bundles and fibres
as well as bones, organs and nerves