Intra-Innominate Distortions: Making a Case
Sherri Cassuto is an Advanced Certified Rolfer practicing in Seattle, Washington. Author’s note: The following concepts concerning intra-innominate distortion were arrived at through clinical observation and are not proved to scientific scrutiny. The information is offered in the hope that it will open the perspective of other SI practitioners to recognize and properly treat these […]
Natural Alignment
The goals of Structural Integration require us to understand natural alignment. That is, the alignment that is natural to the person. The alignment they were born to have. The point of this article is that natural alignment is not the same for all bodies. There seems to be a great difference in the preferred alignment […]
DFA Somatic Pattern Recognition, Archetypal Field Theory, and the New Sciences
DFA Somatic Pattern Recognition, Archetypal Field Theory, and the New Sciences DFA Somatic Pattern Recognition, Archetypal Field Theory, and the New Sciences Brigitte Hansmann Brigitte Hansmann was certified as a practitioner of DFA Somatic Pattern Recognition in 1988 and as an instructor in DFA practitioner trainings in 1997. In the same year she published her […]
Yield: Engaging Touch, Presence and the Physiology of Wholeness
Carol Agneessens Hiroyoshi Tahata For over 30 years, Carol Ann Agneessens has been exploring the multi-dimensional facets of the physical body. Since 1982, she has enjoyed a practice in the art of Rolfing® and Rolf Movement® Integration. Her book, Te Fabric of Wholeness (2001), explores the inherent intelligence of the body within the field of […]
The Importance of “Collection” in the Ridden Horse
This paper is an excerpt from the Collection chapter of my new book. In it we will take a look at “collection”–the ability of the horse to reposition its center of mass to more evenly balance its weight to all four legs. We’ll take a look at collection, how it is defined, what it means […]
Structural Analysis
Einstein wove gravity into the basic fabric of the universe. Rather than being imposed as an additional structure, gravity becomes part and parcel of the universe at its most fundamental level. Breathing life into space and time by allowing them to curve, warp and ripple, results in what we commonly refer to as gravity.” […]
The Asymmetric Pelvis
Very rarely are both the left and right sides of the body the same. In Structural Integration we often ignore these side-to-side asymmetries by working the same way on each side of the body. We need to learn to customize our work to each person?s unique asymmetries. This is very important with the pelvis. Because […]
Slaves, Zombies, and Prisoners
Slaves, Zombies, and Prisoners Dan Bienenfeld is a Hellerwork Structural Integration trainer and practitioner with more than thirty years of experience. He is past president of the Hellerwork Practitioner’s Association, and currently is co-director of the California Hellerwork Institute. Dan was co-founder of Los Angeles Healing Arts Center, one of the nation’s largest multi-specialty alternative […]
Developmental Considerations in Structural Work with Small Children
Lauren Christman, MFA, LMP, KMI/CBSI, CCST, has been a bodyworker since 1994. She focuses her practice on structural integration/KMI, craniosacral therapy and visceral manipulation for young children and adults. As a certified teacher for Kinesis since 2005, she has taught Anatomy Trains® and KMI in the United States and abroad. She teaches specialized continuing education […]
Fascia: Not Just the Organ of Form?
I have come to suspect that what people call energy work, or informational medicine, and what we call Structural Integration, will all end up being explained by the properties of the biological gel that forms the matrix for fascias, intra and extracellular matrices, basement membrane, ligaments, etc. This paper is an explanation of why I […]