Meet Viviana
Advanced Structural Integrator, LMT.
Member of the IASI -International Association of Structural Integrators and a member of IADMS - International Association for Dance Medicine & Science.
She discovered movement at an early age. Throughout her professional dance career, she developed a deep understanding of biomechanics and how the body relates to gravity to move through space. In 1998, she retired from dancing to pursue a career in fashion. During that time, she traveled constantly and worked long hours on set. This experience gave her insight into how the body overcompensates and adapts to poor posture—leading to tension patterns, misalignments, strain, and, eventually, injury.
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Viviana first encountered Structural Integration (SI) while recovering from a longstanding shoulder injury. A friend recommended she try SI, and after the very first session, she knew it was something different—she felt at peace in her body. As she continued through the 10-series treatment, she experienced a profound sense of connection, freedom, and awareness. She began to understand how her own habits were contributing to pain and dysfunction. This realization was a major turning point in her life and inspired her to study Structural Integration.
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Since graduating in 2013 from the School of Structural Integration in Miami, she has continued to deepen her knowledge of Dr. Ida P. Rolf’s method under the guidance of her teacher and mentor, John Latz. In 2015, she became an advanced Structural Integration Practitioner.
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Viviana is also a licensed massage therapist in the state of New York. She holds certifications in prenatal techniques, Zen Shiatsu, Usui Reiki, and AdapTango—a movement class designed for individuals with neurotoxic and neurodegenerative conditions.
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She is passionate about this work. To her, each person is a universe. Your body has a story—one that includes past injuries, poor posture, repetitive habits, stress, accidents, surgeries, and other traumas. Fascia responds to all of these conditions by undergoing chemical changes, which can result in pain and dysfunction.
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As a Structural Integration practitioner and movement educator, Viviana’s mission is to help people release trauma and chronic pain, and live more comfortably by restoring their bodies to a more organized, balanced state. Her approach takes clients on a journey of transformation—helping them become more present, grounded, and joyful in their bodies, often with long-lasting results.
Why Structural Integration?
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What is Structural Integration?
Structural Integration is a scientifically validated body therapy based on the work of Dr. Ida P. Rolf. SI (Rolfing) is a system of soft tissue manipulation and movement education that organizes the whole body in gravity.
SI affects the body’s posture and structure by manipulating the myofascial system (connective tissue). Fascia is designed to be elastic and move freely with muscles and bones. Injury, stress, work-related repetitive movements and the effects of aging can cause fascia to lose its elasticity and become shorter, tighter, and more dense pulling muscles and skeleton out of proper alignment, causing pain and fatigue.
One important principle of Structural Integration is that the body is significantly affected by the powerful force of gravity. In a misaligned state, the body's valuable resources are used inefficiently, laboring to keep a person upright in the field of gravity. Structural Integration works to lengthen, stretch, and soften this tissue to restore postural balance, ease of movement, and a feeling of being more at home in your own body. Generally performed over a series of ten sessions, this approach allows the practitioner to affect the client’s structure
in a methodical manner restoring postural balance by aligning and integrating the body in gravity.
What are the benefits?
Clients that had the 10 series experienced benefits of greater flexibility, a feeling of lightness and fluidity, better balance, increased breathing capacity, increased energy and greater self-confidence.
Furthermore, it can speed up injury recovery by reducing pain, stiffness and muscle tension; improving movement and circulation around joints; and attending to both the injury and any secondary pain that may develop from favoring the injury.
As a structure becomes more organized, chronic strain patterns are alleviated, and pain and stress decrease. When a body is aligned and balanced it moves with greater ease. It requires less energy
to function. Good posture is effortless and breathing is easier. The body becomes more flexible, more coordinated and athletic performance improves. SI practitioners affect body posture and structure over
the long-term.
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Advanced Sessions
(Post 10 Session Series)
3 Series Package
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Tune Up
(Post 10 Session Series)
Single Session 1.15hr
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Shiatsu + Reiki 1.5hr.
Reiki 1hr’
Structural Integration
10 Series Package
First Session 1.5 hr,
Intake + postural analysis + hands-on therapy.
Community Sessions available at a reduced price for artists, healthcare workers, and those with limited income. Please inquire.
* 24-hour notice for cancellations & rescheduling is required to avoid missed session fees
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