ABSTRACT When Joseph Heller started Hellerwork® Structural Integration, he had his friend and colleague Dr. Don St. John at his side. In this interview, St. John talks about the start of what is now Hellerwork International, and how psychology principles were considered when formulating the Hellerwork training. Many memories of those early days are revisited, as well as important contributors to the theory and practice of Hellerwork.

ABSTRACT Interviewer and Hellerworker Greer Bailey asks Joseph Heller to tell the story of creating the structural integration school, Hellerwork® International. Starting with his early life in Poland during World War II, to studying aerospace engineering at Caltech, to when Heller met Dr. Ida Rolf when he was already very interested in the humanistic movement in California in the 1970s. Bailey asks Heller to reflect on how he integrated the essential elements Rolf’s structural integration with what he felt was essential movement and psychology theory to guide the client’s healing experience.