Gravidynamics

Gravidynamics Olivia Ireland, based on interviews with Joseph Heller Olivia Ireland is a Certified Soma Practitioner with a private practice located in Olympia, Washington. Academically trained in creative writing at Harvard College, and in both applied and fine arts during her career as an interior designer, she devotionally harbors the notion that even mundane human […]

Repetitive Stress Injuries and Structural Integration

Repetitive Stress Injuries and Structural Integration: A Certified Hand Therapist’s Perspective Kelly Clancy Kelly Clancy received her BA from Colorado State University in occupational therapy (1987) and certifications in hand therapy (1994), Bowenwork from the Bowen Academy of Australia (2006), structural medicine through the Institute of Structural Medicine (2011), and board certification in structural integration, […]

Replacing Shoulder Tension With Shoulder Support

Replacing Shoulder Tension With Shoulder Support Mary Bond Mary Bond is the author of The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit, Stand, and Move in the Modern World and Balancing Your Body, and is producer of Heal Your Posture: A DVD Workshop. A former dancer, she worked directly with Ida Rolf and is chair […]

The Deep Back Line and a Proposed Alternate Superficial Back Line

The Deep Back Line and a Proposed Alternate Superficial Back Line Yaron Gal Carmel Yaron Gal Carmel, LCMT, KMI, PSIP, has worked as a bodyworker for over twenty years. He has studied with many masters and pioneers including Tom Myers, Christoph Sommer, Koei Kuwahara, Hugh Milne, Judith Aston, Gil Hedley, and Jim Asher. An educator […]

Tiger Stripes

Tiger Stripes: Neurally-Informed Benchwork That Helps Achieve Third Hour or Ninth Hour Goals Kirstin Schumaker Kirstin Schumaker, BCSICM, graduated from the KMI program in 2005. Since then she has studied with four independent neural and visceral manipulation teachers, each of whom has shaped her palpatory understanding of the nerves. She is grateful for their significant […]