Tracy Dixon Structural Integration

I went to see Tracy in Summer 2015, on the recommendation of a friend, to deal with a very painful shoulder and neck and ended up having a surprisingly deep transformational experience.
When I first came in, just turning my neck hurt, and the pain was spreading down into my elbow and wrist. Tracy recommended that I try just an initial session to see how I felt about ROLFing before committing to the next 9 sessions for the 10 Series. After this first session, my pain was greatly reduced, my mobility was much better, and I felt a real sense of calm and well-​bring. So, I decided to complete the series and saw Tracy every week (or so) over the next 3 months.
Within a few sessions, Tracy was addressing fundamental patterns about how I hold my body — some areas were tense, because that’s where I hold my stress. Other areas were where I have held trauma. Tracy even addressed areas (like my hip-​knee-​ankle alignment) that I thought I was born with and couldn’t change.
Over the same period, I was beginning road cycling training for two endurance bike rides — a 120 km ride and a 250 km ride — pretty much from scratch. Even after a bike fit (on my already made-​to-​measure bike), I was bringing back the pain in my shoulder — to the extent that on one long ride my hand started to go numb.
Tracy checked in on my training progress and, in her adjustments, gave me the support I needed. Since the 10 Series finished, I have been cycling 4−6+ hr rides with not only no pain, but with a really high level of fitness, great recovery time, and no sore muscles. To put it another way, I was expecting in May to finish the Whistler GranFondo in about 6 hours, but ended up finishing it in about 4.5 this September. I believe the reason for this is because my muscles and joints are better balanced and working more efficiently together.
I can’t recommend Tracy enough! She is a great listener with a deep and intuitive sense of healing. The transformation from someone totally not good at sports to a pretty reasonable cyclist in 3 months has been a profound experience for me. But something that has been even more profound is how much less anxiety I feel on a daily basis. It actually shocks me to reflect on how much stress was part of my life not even that long ago. So by letting a lot of my deep physical tensions go and showing me how to recognize where I’m holding tension, Tracy has given me a real sense of inner peace.