About Me

I’m Katherine Zitterbart — a somatic practitioner, writer, and systems thinker working at the intersection of fascia, nervous system coherence, and embodied perception.

My work focuses on how orientation emerges in living systems under real conditions of load. Rather than approaching the nervous system through regulation or optimization, I work through structure, timing, and relationship — beginning in the body and extending outward into cognition, meaning, and culture.

I was raised in a household shaped by music, academics, and pattern-based thinking, and developed an early fluency in structure across sound, language, and spatial systems. My formal education includes work in computational and media environments, alongside decades of hands-on engagement with bodies, breath, and movement.

In 2019, I survived a major stroke. In 2020, I underwent treatment for Stage 3 breast cancer during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, largely in isolation. During that period, external systems of regulation were unavailable. Coherence had to be rebuilt internally.

That experience became the ground from which my frameworks emerged.

How This Work Came Into Being

The systems presented here were not developed as abstract models. They were reconstructed through lived necessity — by tracking perception, fascia, and orientation moment by moment in a body under gravity.

This process led to the development of Neuroaffective Somatics, Shentegrity, and String Practice: coherence-based frameworks designed to function in complexity, dissociation, and divergence without coercion.

These frameworks integrate:

• fascia science and biotensegrity

• affective neuroscience and perception–action loops

• Chinese medicine and Neidan-based internal maps

• systems theory and media architecture

They are not belief systems.
They are not diagnostic tools.
They are practical orientations for living nervous systems.