Tensegrity
Medicine
An Integrative Approach
to Whole Person Medicine
Services Offered
‘All structures properly understood, from the solar system to the atom, are tensegrity structures.
The universe is omnitensional integrity.’
-Buckminster Fuller
About Kelly
Through somatic awareness practices and education on self-care, nutrition, movement, and exercise, Kelly focuses on the multifaceted, multilayered components that contribute to greater health and wellness. Her primary goal is to empower her clients and students to practice a balanced lifestyle that not only supports health and well-being but also, more importantly, supports a ‘return to oneself’ and their essential nature.
Along with assessing and treating the structural imbalances that may be present in the body, she also brings awareness and inquiry into the emotional and perceptual factors that may be impacting the body’s regulatory systems.
She has been a practicing Occupational Therapist for over 39 years, completing her sub-specialty training within the field as a board-certified hand and upper extremity specialist. She has also completed training as a structural integrator, massage therapist, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) practitioner.
She is the developer of the Tensegrity Medicine methodology and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to therapeutic assessment, light touch manual therapies, and Tensegrity Medicine.
Her clinical practice is based in Seattle, Washington.
What is Tensegrity Medicine?
Tensegrity Medicine is a holistic approach to therapy that focuses on the relationship of the individual and their interactions, responses, and adaptations to their own internal and external environment. Using a biotensegrity-informed and complex systems lens of understanding ourselves, this approach views the bodymind as a biological organism comprised of ‘equal forces of tensional compression and distraction’. It explores the global adaptive patterns that arise following injury, trauma, repetitive movement patterns, outdated belief systems, or unprocessed emotions.
This unique form of therapy incorporates the latest research related to connective tissue science, neuroscience, trauma-informed care, and biofield medicine. Along with physical injuries and disease processes, it is understood that our perception and our responses to life’s challenges and stressors contribute to our global symptoms and our overall posturing and functioning. The clinician evaluates and addresses the whole person, along with their relationship to their environment, as a means to enhance awareness and explore new adaptive choice points for modified behavior and movement.
A comprehensive holistic evaluation is utilized, incorporating the physical, emotional, and perceptual history in order to better understand lifestyle stressors, coping mechanisms, and belief systems.
During hands-on treatment, the Tensegrity Medicine practitioner utilizes a number of innovative light-touch manual techniques targeting abnormal tensional patterns that may be altering optimal joint, muscle, ligament, tendon, or nerve functioning. During these hands-on or movement therapy strategies, the focus is placed on heightening the client’s interoceptive awareness around holding patterns and sensations. This exploratory process happens in a safe, supportive environment to facilitate mobility and integration. Hands-on treatment usually involves 90-minute treatment sessions.
