ABSTRACT This article explores clinical protocols and self-care during global crisis, and recognizes the role of Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI): touch, physical presence, and real-time social engagement as an anchor to embodied life. It celebrates our work as a counterbalance to the increasingly virtual/seen-throughscreens reality in which we find ourselves. It identifies the required depth and fortitude to continue in our role as somatic practitioners when familiar external structures are uprooted and traumatic experience is rampant.

ABSTRACT Developed from thirty years of clinical observation, this work incorporates organizational principles from classic Rolfing® Structural Integration, Somatic Experiencing®, movement re-education, and craniosacral modalities. The ‘gesture’ is defined as the stored history of movement in response to life. The techniques presented identify tissue and movement patterns associated with both what is stuck and what is supporting homeostasis in the client’s body.  The intention of the work is  to re-establish, through touch and verbal cueing, natural resiliency in the autonomic nervous system and to quietly unravel gestures, associated structural patterns, and traumatic responses.