Annelies Smith
ANNELIES SMITH, KMI, SPT, RMT, CMT
Offering Kinesis Myofascial Integration, a form of Structural Integration, SourcePoint Therapy, Somatic Movement and Integrative Massage.
This website welcomes you to the possibility of a deep personal journey in bodywork.
Structural Integration is a body mind therapy that rebalances and frees your body through hands-on and movement rehabilitation. It releases stresses, strains and tensions that may have held in your body over time. The freedom that ensues leads you to a sense of increased physical and emotional vitality, improved health, wellness and physical appearance.
Source Point Therapy™ uses a hands-on scanning technique to locate energetic blockages in the body that obstruct the information of Order, Balance, Harmony and Flow. These blockages often are the source of symptom patterns. Connecting to the universal blueprint of health and bringing this information to these blockages reorders the individual energy field, supports and sustains the physical body, and enhances the effectiveness of other treatments.
Somatic Movement facilitates your ability to listen to your body as it moves, in stillness, or as you breath. You learn that it communicates with your mind through sensation. Using simple movement explorations, you can recognize and allow these sensations to occur creating greater range of motion that is also stable and balancing. Limiting patterns are restored and you can gain more capacity to engage your life with vitality.
Integrative Massage: receive the benefits of twenty years experience of hands-on healing and massage. Annelies draws from her multiple disciplines to evoke the greatest benefit for each person’s body.
The History of Kinesis and Structural Integration:
Kinesis was formed by Thomas Myers, in heritage with the work of Ida Rolf, called Rolfing. Dr. Ida P. Rolf developed a captivating method of connective tissue manipulation and body education called Rolfing, which was the primary method of Structural Integration. The basis of the Structural Integration method is to bring to balance a person’s deviation from harmonious alignment in relationship to gravity and and enhance their ability to have balanced and synchronised movement. There are now at least seven registered schools considered to be Structural Integration that have sprouted out of Dr. Rolf’s original training. Thomas Myers carried Dr. Rolf’s ideas further in the world with an effort to create a succinct method that acknowledges for the first time that connective tissue connects individual muscles into continuous, distinct lines that runs from head to foot, along the front, back, sides and deep core of the body like train lines. This means we can recognize where lines of strain in the body can develop in one area, but be seen to effect another area. He termed his discovery “Anatomy Trains.” His method offers a systematic approach of understanding how forces and support play in the body. Both of these methods are distinct from Deep Tissue Massage in that DTM directly addresses the area of pain but does not necessarily relate it within the entire structure nor see how alignment and body usage may be a factor.