Tensegrity Medicine is a holistic approach to therapy, focusing on the relationship of the individual and their interaction with and response to their own internal and external environment. Using a biotensegrity-informed and systems lens of viewing the bodymind, this method approaches the bodymind as a biologic organism comprising ‘equal forces of tensional compression and distraction’.
Differing from traditional reductionistic therapy approaches that treat symptoms and body parts in isolation, Tensegrity Medicine instead explores the global adaptive patterns from a systems lens, examining patterns that develop following injury, trauma, repetitive movement patterns, outdated belief systems or unprocessed emotions.
This methodology incorporates the latest research related to connective tissue science, neuroscience, trauma-informed care, complexity theory, psychoneuroimmunology, and biofield medicine. It is based on relational anatomy and the organization of tension and compression as a way to find tensional balance, organization and maximized function.
❋ Scientifically Based
Along with physical injury or disease processes, it is understood that perceptions and our responses to life’s challenges and stressors contribute to global symptoms and our overall functioning. TM evaluates and addresses the whole person, along with their relationship to their environment, as a means to enhance awareness and to explore new adaptive choice points for modified habits and movement.
❋ Bodymind Approach
A holistic evaluation is utilized, incorporating the physical, emotional, and perceptual history and experiences in order to better understand the client’s history of lifestyle stressors, coping mechanisms, and belief systems. This whole-person lens of viewing allows for a comprehensive treatment approach that addresses the current physiologic state and possible underlying chronic pattern(s) that may be present.
❋ Comprehensive Assessment
Dialoguing about the origin and the perpetuation of patterns is interwoven throughout the treatment process as a means to explore choices in habitual ‘ways of being’. This provides an opportunity for the client to experience various strategies for habits and behaviors. Additionally, novel perceptual strategies and movement patterns may be felt and explored to maximize overall health and well-being. Interoceptive awareness, detection and interpretation is explored for the client to enhance their own sense of self.
❋ Interoceptive Inquiry
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the current model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller
