Eric DeForge

Rolf Practitioner of Structural Integration, CranioSacral Therapist, Visceral Manipulation Practitioner, Massage Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Āyurvedic Health Counselor

My path to bodywork began with healing myself. Through the very methods I now offer my clients, I overcame debilitating pain from multiple major accidents, medical trauma, and sports injuries.

I practice Advanced Personalized Structural Integration, originally formulated by Dr. Ida P. Rolf. My sessions weave together myofascial, myoskeletal, osteopathic, visceral, neural, and craniosacral techniques to systematically unwind tension and restore vitality. I trained and certified in Structural Integration at the University of New Mexico–Taos under instructors from three distinct lineages, and have since studied Anatomy Trains with Thomas Myers, Advanced Myofascial Trainings with Til Luchau, and Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques with Erik Dalton.

As a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, I work with a naturalistic, body-oriented approach to healing trauma — releasing the shock held in fight, flight, or freeze and restoring the authentic self to wholeness and aliveness. As a CranioSacral Therapist trained with the Upledger Institute, the gold standard in the field, I work directly at the level of the central nervous system. And as a Visceral Manipulation Practitioner trained through the Barral Institute, I use gentle, precise techniques to restore motion to the body’s organs and address the root anatomical causes of chronic pain, digestive disorders, and post-surgical restrictions.

I am also a health counselor in the tradition of Āyurveda — the very system through which I healed a decade of debilitating digestive pain — trained and certified by Dr. Vasant Lad at the Āyurvedic Institute. My studies have carried me further afield as well: yoga teacher training and Kriya Yoga initiation in India, Daoist Medicine and Tai Chi with Li Shifu of the Five Immortals Temple in China, and a Shamanic Permaculture Design certificate from the Paititi Institute of Peru.

Together, my own healing journey and these living wisdom traditions have shaped a holistic approach that targets the root cause of each client’s imbalances — offering true and lasting transformation in their lives, as it did in mine.