Complete body image – the client has access to the information coming from and motor access so the entire kinesthetic body, with minimal areas of stillness, holding, or ‘sensory-motor amnesia’.

Skeletal alignment and support – the bones are aligned in a way that allows minimum effort for standing and action.

Tensegrity / palintonicity – the myofascial tissues are balanced around the skeletal structure such that there is a general evenness of tone, rather than islands of higher tension or slackened tissues.

Length – the body lives its full length in both the trunk and limbs, and in the muscles and the joints, rather than moving in shortness and compression.

Resilience – the ability to bear stress without breaking, and to resume a balanced existence when the stress is removed.

Ability to hold and release somato-emotional – the ability to hold a emotional charge without acting it out, and to release it into action or simply into letting go when the time is appropriate.

Unity of intent with diffuse awareness – structural integration implies the ability to focus on any given task or perception while maintaining a diffuse peripheral awareness of whatever is going on around  this focused activity. Focus without contextual awareness is fanatic; awareness without focus is ineffective.

Reduced effort, in standing and movement – less ‘parasitic’ tension or unnecessary compensatory movement involved in any given task.

Range of motion, generosity of movement – less restriction in any given activity, and that, within the limits of health, age, history, and genetic make-up, the full range of human movement is available.

Reduced pain – that standing and activity be as free of structural pain as possible.

Reproduced with permission from Kinesis Inc., Thomas W. Myers Founder and Director

Myofascial Integration / Kinesis Inc.