BodySound Structural Integration: Client Empowered Structural Therapies

	BodySound Structural Integration
	Client Empowered Structural Therapies

Sessions 6: Holding Back			The Sleeve Sessions Session 1: Inspiration Session 2: Understanding Our Bodies Session 3: Reaching Out The Core Sessions Session 4: The Foundation Session 5: The Core Session 6: Holding Back Session 7: Getting Our Heads On Straight The Integration Sessions Session 8: Keep Your Feet On The Ground... Session 9: And Your Head In The Clouds Session 10: The Sound Body Now What?: Beyond 10

In Session 6 we will complete the core lifting started in session 4. This is the only session where we work primarily prone, that is face down. In this session we work the entire back line of the body, focusing mainly on the hamstrings, hip rotators, and deep spinal muscles. After so much work on the front of the body, we now find balance yet again, this time on the anterior, or front, and posterior, or back of the body. We work between the hamstrings, attempting to differentiate them from each other and allow independent movement which is vital to a balanced knee and hip.		Muscles of the Posterior Thigh
The Piriformis Main Player in Sciatica	As we reach the top of the hamstrings, we will work our way into the gluteals and deeper hip rotators. Here we will encounter a muscle called the Piriformis. This is a common culprit in "sciatica". The sciatic nerve, which services much of the legs, travels below the piriformis and above the other hip rotators. Because of this, a chronically tight piriformis can pinch the sciatic nerve causing pain in the lower back and down the back side of the legs. This is commonly known as "sciatica", though sciatica is actually a name for the set of symptoms and not the cause of the symptoms themselves. In our culture of sitting at desks or in cars, often times letting our knees "rest" to the outside, a tight piriformis is quite common, even if sciatica is not present. Sometimes sciatica caused by the piriformis in this manner is refered to as "Piriformis Syndrome", to differentiate.
After we work the hip rotators and gluteals, we will work the pelvic attachments and lower back muscles, and move up the spine, working 3 and sometimes 4 layers deep into the multifidi and rotatore muscles, if the body allows. These are small muscles that connect one vertebra to the next which, when out of balance, will effectively put a slight kink in the spine. If imbalance occurs over a span of several vertebrae this can become a slight curving to one side of the other, or possibly a slight twisting. In extreme cases we might see a slipped disc.		Muscles of the Spine
Session 7: Getting Our Heads On Straight