Looking Forward to the 2012 IASI Symposium
Milree Keeling, current member of the IASI Board of Directors, and Carrie Gaynor, former Board member, are serving as co-chairs of the 2012 IASI Symposium committee. “Beauty rides on a lion. Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy. The cell of the bee is built at that […]
Dynamic Fascial Release
Kirstin Schumaker, BCSICM, is a KMI graduate (2005) who has been practicing bodywork since 1998. Her practice, Agile Body Structural Integration, is located in Portland, Oregon. She currently teaches fascial anatomy, nerve mobilization, and integrative movement (Dynamic Fascial Release). Class information and other articles are available at agilebodyportland.com. Kirstin can be contacted at [email protected]. […]
Proposal for a Body of Knowledge for the Profession of Structural Integration
Introduction The intention of this article is to reach out to the Structural Integration community and invite your participation in defining a Structural Integration Body of Knowledge (SI-BOK). Individual practitioners and multiple stakeholders will be asked to join in this process, including schools, research organizations, and accrediting bodies. The purposes that can be served in […]
Helping Clients Understand Their Fascial Network
Can you imagine living in a house where you didn’t know all the names of the rooms? Or maybe you do know the names, but aren?t sure exactly where they are. Or how about knowing the names of all the rooms and where they’re located, but not knowing what the furniture inside them is for? […]
Understanding Target Markets to Promote Business
We can all agree that a small business owner pours their heart and soul into their business. With the vigor needed to run a small business, business owners need to work smarter, not harder. Marketing is an ingredient that will provide efficiency. It can identify specific audiences who are interested in the business? product as […]
Fascia: Exquisite medium of Human Expression
Fascia: Exquisite Medium of Human Expression Olivia Ireland Olivia Ireland currently studies at the Soma Institute of Neuromuscular Integration® in Buckley, Washington. She received her BA in English Language and Literature in 1993 from Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, having trained as a teacher and creative writer. During the past decade she has also served humanity […]
How the Guts Drive Structure
Abstract David Murphy studied structural integration (SI) at the Institute of Structural MedicineTM and is a Hellerwork® SI practitioner. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, and enjoys winter surfing, playing his ukulele, good food, and the three-dimensional relationships between energy and things. Enthusiastically working to find connections between all modalities that work, he has studied a […]
Perspectives on Fascia Research
The purpose of this article is to share perspectives for the clinician from the recent Second International Fascia Research Congress. Interested readers are referred to the DVD and books from both the first and the second congresses, available for purchase at: <a href=’http://www.fasciacongress.org/dvd-book-purchase.htm’ target=’_blank’>http://www.fasciacongress.org/dvd-book-purchase.htm</a> My editorials in the <i>International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork</i> […]
A Fresh Look At Tensegrity
This discussion of tensegrity attempts to simplify the dizzying mechanical complexity of our living structures through the extensive use of metaphor. Tensegrity In the field of Structural Integration (SI), tensegrity is a commonly used term. We hear about sailboat masts, tents and the like as metaphors to compare with the more familiar compression […]
One World, One Work, Many Cultures
One World, One Work, Many Cultures