Core Integration Interview
Core Integration - by Subhuti
Core Integration is a brand new style of bodywork that that combines deep touch with yoga stretches. The founder, Swami Deva Satyarthi, has spent many years working with the body and training thousands of people in bodywork. Here, he talks about his journey with meditation and bodywork and how he came to design Core Integration.
How did you start doing bodywork?
In 1971, when I was nineteen years old, I became a professional dancer, but I soon lost my love of dance as a performance. Instead I became interested in how physical movement related to my personal sense of self-expression and how to use it for meditation.
Soon afterwards, I began to study Structural Integration (Rolfing), a style of bodywork that focuses on bringing the body into alignment and balance through deep massage. When the body is in alignment it uses the least amount of tension to keep upright and you feel more relaxed. Our bodies become distorted because we grow up in tension. Structural Integration helps us restructure the body and create expansion inside instead of tension.
In 1976, I came to Pune, India and met Osho. I lived and worked in the Osho Commune and learned a lot about different types of bodywork from practitioners there.
When I became bored with Structural Integration I asked Osho about it and he said it was too structured and did not fit with the individual. He suggested that I expand the work to include other types of touch along with deep work. So, for the next three years, I was developing a type of bodywork called Osho Rebalancing with a close friend, Anubuddha. As part of the process, we combined bodywork with counseling.
When I became bored with Structural Integration I asked Osho about it and he said it was too structured and did not fit with the individual. He suggested that I expand the work to include other types of touch along with deep work. So, for the next three years, I was developing a type of bodywork called Osho Rebalancing with a close friend, Anubuddha. As part of the process, we combined bodywork with counseling.
Core Integration - by Subhuti
Core Integration is a brand new style of bodywork that that combines deep touch with yoga stretches. The founder, Swami Deva Satyarthi, has spent many years working with the body and training thousands of people in bodywork. Here, he talks about his journey with meditation and bodywork and how he came to design Core Integration.
How did you start doing bodywork?
In 1971, when I was nineteen years old, I became a professional dancer, but I soon lost my love of dance as a performance. Instead I became interested in how physical movement related to my personal sense of self-expression and how to use it for meditation.
Soon afterwards, I began to study Structural Integration (Rolfing), a style of bodywork that focuses on bringing the body into alignment and balance through deep massage. When the body is in alignment it uses the least amount of tension to keep upright and you feel more relaxed. Our bodies become distorted because we grow up in tension. Structural Integration helps us restructure the body and create expansion inside instead of tension.
In 1976, I came to Pune, India and met Osho. I lived and worked in the Osho Commune and learned a lot about different types of bodywork from practitioners there.
When I became bored with Structural Integration I asked Osho about it and he said it was too structured and did not fit with the individual. He suggested that I expand the work to include other types of touch along with deep work. So, for the next three years, I was developing a type of bodywork called Osho Rebalancing with a close friend, Anubuddha. As part of the process, we combined bodywork with counseling.
When I became bored with Structural Integration I asked Osho about it and he said it was too structured and did not fit with the individual. He suggested that I expand the work to include other types of touch along with deep work. So, for the next three years, I was developing a type of bodywork called Osho Rebalancing with a close friend, Anubuddha. As part of the process, we combined bodywork with counseling.