Chris Darmanin is a London-based Structural Integration practitioner working through the Anatomy Trains model. His approach is shaped by a lifelong involvement in movement, including a career in professional dance and over a decade of experience working with people through the GYROTONIC® method.
Through the demands of ballet school and a professional dance career, Chris experienced injury, recovery and the frustration of not always finding the support he was looking for. This led him to ask deeper questions about the body, movement and long-term change. Over time, this curiosity developed into a passion for the forms of work that had made a meaningful difference to him personally. Alongside his Structural Integration practice, Chris has a background in Western acupuncture, which continues to inform his understanding of the body and its capacity for change.
Chris is not only interested in the way Structural Integration can support high-performing movers and athletes, but also how it can help people in their everyday lives, improving quality of life through greater ease, adaptability and a more integrated sense of support in the body. Where appropriate, he also draws on the GYROTONIC® method to help clients further integrate the changes made available through Structural Integration, bringing them into conscious movement and lived experience.
