We are so proud to finally offer Pilates classes in our Center!  Our clients often ask us what they can do to enhance the results they experience from our Structural Integration services.  We have always recommended that they find a yoga class or Pilates class and attend regularly.  We have stressed how important the right instructor is to the formulae of success in these endeavors  and make recommendations about certain teachers.  Our clients (and ourselves) have discovered how truly marvelous it feels to practice yoga and Pilates with a 'Rolfed body' and how important it can be to maximize the return on the investment in health one makes through using Structural Integration.  Well we have the best of the best teaching in our location now!

     Sylvia S. Baker, BS is a Movement Specialist, Certified Pilates Instructor and Certified Practitioner of Structural Integration with over 30 years experience in rehabilitation.  Her extensive background, keen insight to personal needs and experience in leading bodies toward optimal organization and function in the Rolf Method of Structural Integration makes her the prized teacher of Pilates in the Dallas and Plano areas.  "I love helping people find their core.  I mean their true core, not just their abs or trunk muscles but to experience the core of their body, functionally from head to feet.  My training in Dr. Ida Rolf's work has given me a fuller understanding of what Joseph Pilates' exercise approach can do for a person.  Helping a person, in any condition, move from awareness to fitness without loosing sight of the importance of organization is what my students love about our classes.  I love to teach people how to use not only their rectus and psoas muscles, but also how to access the relatively under-taught  aspects of the core like the diaphragm and the floor of the pelvis.  Waking your body up can be addicting!"

     To maximize her strengths of personal attention and individual assessment and direction we are limiting class size to 4 people.  The class experience is a semi-private lesson.  Classes run an hour in length and we are adding new ones to the schedule as needed. Sylvia is offering complimentary classes to those who want an introduction to her style and she will assess your level and listen to your needs and goals.  She is adding new morning and evening classes regularly and will design class times convenient for every schedule. Her class fees are very competitive PLUS you get the advantage and privacy of semi-private classes.

     Call Sylvia to RSVP for the next demo class at 972-263-5598.

     

     

     They are available to view on youtube and are also uploaded on 16 other video sites under the search term 'solbergcenter'.  But the easiest way to see them now is on our website under 'resources + videos'

or the link is   www.solbergcenter.com/videos.htm .

     It is great to get feedback from our colleagues too.  I got this note from a student of mine who recently viewed them.

I am amazed how my son and his friends can watch each other play video games for extended periods of time. They get so engrossed in each other's processes and accomplishments seemingly without boredom. In this picture my son is thoroughly engrossed in his friend's prowess in navigating the game's labyrinth and overcoming the obstacles to victory. After my first reaction of being baffled of how they selflessly enjoy each other's exploits, I am inspired to review my life and see where I can pursue this same sense of enjoyment in merely witnessing.  It is my good fortune to be blessed with a profession where I get to stand next to my clients and intimately watch their own personal process of structural integration, self discovery and awareness. In that sense, my son's fixed expression begins to look familiar. I know that look -- how it feels. Being a parent also affords me the pleasure of enjoying watching as my sons figure things out. The more I get still and just notice what is happening around me and watch others and enjoy their strategies and victories, the more I feel a part of the human race. It feels good to just be a part of mankind, and who knew not being the center of attention would be so fulfilling?

           FOR STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION                     

     Reconnecting with some old friends/colleagues and putting faces and hugs to some of the names we have known over the years was probably my favorite part of the day. It is always a sweet experience when any community puts their school allegiances aside and looks for the similarities rather than the differences between them. The event was hosted by Michael Kastris (www.insidesi.com -- great sight, that) who said "This meeting is a veritable who's who from the different Structural Integration schools." It was an honor to be in the midst of some of the teachers, students and elders who have inspired us in our craft. Thank you IASI.

Michael Solberg

www.solbergcenter.com

We are overjoyed to be in Dr. Sam Lam's Willow Bend Wellness Center. We were presented with a once-in-a-lifetime offer to join in the patiently assembled group of synergistically oriented wellness practices. How sweet it is! The building is first-class, inside and out. We are proud to present Structural Integration in an environment which it deserves. We think Dr. Ida Rolf would be proud. Dr. Rolf's Structural Integration has paid its dues as a grassroots movement over the last 50 years and we want to be a contributor to bringing her important work to many more people and lifting the public awareness of its scientific foundation and its personal significance to a variety of individuals.

Every client we see says something like: "Why haven't I heard of this before? How long has this been around? Why doesn't everybody know about this? This work is incredible! I need to tell my friends about this... Can I make an appointment for the other members in my family to start next week?" We spent years 'keeping it a secret' because our practices were not equipped to respond to the avalanche of new clients that we knew would come 'if it ever got out'. Those days are over!!! We have been given the opportunity in our new Center to respond to the huge need in our city/world for this unique and powerful work. We have recruited the finest practitioners to partner with us to meet the need and we already have expansion plans after only being open for 3 months! Most importantly, we feel called to teach people what Structural Integration is and the hope it can bring as it offers something persons can find in no other body modality. We consider ourselves educators and want to further the educational movement that can introduce Rolf's work to the many people who can benefit from it. We thank God that it is our mission to make the world a better place with this marvelous work that is born of both logic and love.

Sincerely,

Michael Solberg

     Let me just open my contributions to this blog with the thought and sentiment of how very blessed I am to have received all of the help necessary to open the Solberg Center for Structural Integration 3 short months ago. Thank you Sam Lam for your immense help with our web presence and for allowing us to move into your amazing Willow Bend Wellness Center. Thank you Carol Lam for believing in us and challenging me to dream big. Thank you Richard Crawford for your amazing construction work. Thank you Kristin Praeuner for your creative vision as our interior designer. Thank you Kerrie Meyler for being the best web person a guy could ever find. Thank you Geoff Hill for coming on board as our center Director and bringing your deep desire for helping people. Thank you to all of my clients for helping us to build our practices to the level of expanding into the Solberg Center. Thank you to our parents for loving us while we were still just little human buds. Thank you to our sons for loving us and inspiring us to excel in our professional life and reminding us what is most important. Mostly, thank you Virginia for making me the luckiest husband alive. It is truly an honor and a gift from God to have you as my partner in life, family and our new partnership in the Solberg Center where we can share our passion for the work of Dr. Rolf where we can care for those that come into our studios.

     I have had an incredible father's day, great weekend with people I love and respect and to top it off I am one of the obnoxious people who actually looks forward to Monday morning because I love my work!

     More to come...

     Gratefully, Michael Solberg