G.D.S. METHOD

The G.D.S. method considers the relations between the body’s mechanics and it’s behavioral expressions.

States of tension, emotions, attitudes, and the way we live our lives express themselves through our body. Through clinical observation and mechanical analysis, it has been shown that the muscular system is responsible for this expression. It is the muscles and their envelopes(or fascia) organised in « chains » that link the various parts of the body and influence our posture and mannerisms.

When a state of tension or postural attitude is repeated or maintained over time, an excessive tonicity sets in. Spreading from adjacent parts to other adjacent parts, it eventually gains control of very specific muscles until they appear as true tension patterns over the body. This then progressively results in a cascade of misaligned joints in highly characteristic patterns.

The work of Godelieve Denys-Struyf has established six muscles chains families that the body uses to express itself. In excess, these families may become myofascial tension links that inhibit and fasten down the body within a physical typology. Each typology then imprisons the body in a characteristic, inflexible attitude, which limits its ease of movement and creates spécific structural restrictions.

An in-depth analysis and decoding of the specific signs, behavioural language and characteristic imprints left on the body have constituted the central axis of research preceding the creation of the G.D.S. method. The method defines the individual postural differences in both static and dynamic positions, the behavioural and morphological characteristics, and the symbolic and the mechanical attributes of each person.