Your Session
The session begins with an assessment or re-evaluation. You lay down comfortably clothed on a firmly padded table. In later sessions you may be in a sitting, kneeling or standing position. Various props (pillows, rollers, blankets) are used for your comfort and support and to facilitate certain movements.
These sessions are personal lessons highly customized to your specific needs and patterns of movement. Kachina guides your movements with precise, gentle, noninvasive touch and verbal instructions. Both are used because learning occurs both directly in your nervous system and in your conscious awareness.
This brings into focus your tendencies and habits so it is here new movement options are offered by Kachina's guiding touch. You will discover new ways of sensing, feeling and moving with greater ease, which can be very relaxing, energizing or both.
How long does a session last?
The lesson is approximately 45 minutes. The exact time varies depending upon an individual's age, interests and attention. Your appointment of one hour, allows adequate time for updates on your progress and reevaluation or review.
How often should you come?
This depends on your goals and the severity of your condition. Kachina will assist you in determining a plan during your first visit.
If your difficulties are severe or acute, you may need to come two or three times per week in the beginning. As you progress, you may reduce the frequency of the lessons.
If your concerns are less severe or less acute or if you're exploring improved performance, often once a week is adequate.
In either case as you progress, you will be taught movement sequences to be practiced at home. As you develop your own vocabulary of self-care exercises you may reduce the frequency of the lessons.
If your goal is to maintain your flexibility and well-being, you may choose a weekly or monthly maintenance plan.
And for how long?
Typically after three to six sessions you will know if Functional Integration® is going to help you significantly. And at that time, you're progress can be reviewed.
Depending on your goals, the nature of your condition, your movement experience and your rate of learning, your length of treatments may vary from weeks to months.
If freedom from pain is your goal, occasionally, a single session or two will relieve you of that pain temporarily. But generally, a number of sessions are required to maintain a new state of freedom.
Once a program of treatment is completed, you may choose to return if there is a new injury or a challenging condition.
