Now that you, fair reader, have navigated Integration's four realms, your understanding of the term will have blossomed along the journey. Like the four blind men who feel an elephant, one reports it’s solid, another that it's serpentine, etc...

In the three posts hence, we have considered several different understandings of the term "integration." In the final installment of this series, I intend to offer forth a fourth conception of the term, a culmination that, in some sense, integrates the prior three!

Through the process of Rolfing® Structural Integration, we invariably arrive at a more refined awareness of our bodies. We furthermore begin then to take notice of factors & conditions that influence their state. Our bodies do not operate in a vacuum but rather function in an unimaginable interplay of information continually exchanged between myriad interdependent systems.

In the first post of this series, I introduced an aspect of integration that I described as "internal congruence." We might also designate this condition as intra-structural integration. In this second post, we will hear the next blind man's testimony about the elephant of integration: I will offer another interpretation of the fruitful & enigmatic term, describing an integration that is inter-structural. This is to say that it is not within but rather between subjects.

"Structural Integration promises structural integration in ten sessions!"

"Wait—what does that even mean?"

Through the course of the following four posts, I mean to broadly delineate several distinct yet interrelated understandings of the concept of integration. First, I think it is fitting to note that when circumstances required that she coin a name for her method, Ida Rolf settled on the title of "Structural Integration."