NST Spinal Integration was developed by Michael Nixon-Livy from Melbourne, Australia. Having been inspired by the effectiveness of certain chiropractic and osteopathic approaches throughout the 1980’s Nixon-Livy sought to develop a system that moved away from the traditional manipulation of bones to a more soft tissue spinal integration approach.

Tom Bowen

1988 marked the year when he first came to experience the work of Tom Bowen, the Australian soft tissue osteopathic genius, and thereafter the first signs of a powerful and integrated spinal integration approach started to manifest. Through further research and experimentation with the work of Major Bertrand De Jarnette’s SOT (Sacro Occipital Technique) Nixon-Livy felt that he had made significant inroads into achieving his goal.

By using advanced kinesiological testing techniques throughout an extensive clinical research period (1991-1995) he was able to carefully extract the essential ‘complementary components’ of both Bowen’s and De Jarnette’s systems and meld them into one highly integrated whole, to which he gave the name Neurostructural Integration Technique or NST.

NST was officially launched onto the global therapeutic scene in 1996 at the CFK college in Aix en Provence, France and continues to enjoy tremendous popularity amongst a broad array of professional therapists throughout the world within many highly respected educational institutes.

Since NST’s initial release as a spinal integration technique Nixon-Livy has further developed important supportive therapeutic strategies in both the psychological and nutritional realms which has resulted in a truly stand-alone health system.