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What If It’s Not a Line?
by Kathy McConnell, Certified Advanced Rolfer®, Rolf Movement® Practitioner

If, in your mind
you’re looking for a line,
that’s what you’ll find.
A better name for this place
might be space.
It’s also a flow,
as in “gravity flows through.”
How about stream?
A stream of consciousness
activated by awareness.
Maybe a cord,
a connecting cord,
as in umbilical cord.
This space undulates.
It undulates with lemniscate
housing the snake
of the spine.
We are space
walking through space
navigating, negotiating
space.
It’s not a “thing.”
It’s a non-thing.
It’s a non-line,
so don’t call it a line

Kathy McConnell is a Certified Advanced Rolfer and Rolf Movement Practitioner in the San
Francisco Bay Area. During her twenty years of practice she has assembled an eclectic palette
of formal and self-directed trainings that influence her work, including Craniosacral Therapy,
Medical Qi Gong, and Western Esoteric Studies. Through her poetry she is experimenting with
the language of embodiment that is awakened by Rolfing® SI and Rolf Movement Integration.