When Moshe Met Ida
… when Ida Rolf integrates structure, as nobody else can, she improves functioning…. Rolfing was a revealing and unforgettable experience for me.1</i> This quote from Moshe Feldenkrais appears on the back cover of Dr. Rolf?s classic text Rolfing and Physical Reality, and yet the majority of SI practitioners know very little about Moshe Feldenkrais, other […]
Is Structural Integration Scientific?
Is Structural Integration Scientific? When I started this work, there was no ‘book.’ There was no law and there were no prophets. And still there is very little law, and there are even fewer prophets. You have to stop and experiment, and the law and the prophets come out of what the experiment shows. When […]
My Shoulders, My Teachers: What Shoulders Taught Me
Marsha Presnell-Jennette, Certified Advanced RolferTM and Rolf MovementC®MPractitioner, trained at the Rolf Institute® in 1988. She is a Board Certified Structural Integrator and serves on the IASI Law and Legislative Committee. Marsha published an article on her innovative approach to using therapy balls in her SI sessions in the IASI 2007 Yearbook of Structural […]
Arm Session: The Touching Limb
As Structural Integration practitioners, it is vital that we work in the present moment. Body awareness is a present moment experience; the mind is past or future. Being in the present moment is what connects us to our clients. It is never the goal to “get the work done,? or ?to take their pain away,? […]
D.A.S.I.E
There are many styles of touch: directive, loving, nurturing, abusive, healing, calming, patronizing and seductive. We can become richer therapists by developing our abilities to notice as wide a range of these as possible. Not even necessarily omitting the ?negative? as we should have them in our vocabulary, if only so that we can recognize […]
The Experiential Field of Structural Integration
Looking at Structural Integration (SI) as a broad field of experience leads us to a greater understanding of how practitioners perceive and define what SI encompasses based upon their individual experiences. We are then able to see how practitioners? different experiences will influence communication among colleagues and with clients.</div> In order to give definition to […]
Using Customized Autonomic Nervous System Assessment to Guide Treatment
Using Customized Autonomic Nervous System Assessment to Guide Treatment
Working with Beliefs Reflected in Liquid Crystal
Brigitte Hansmann was certified as a practitioner of DFA (Dugan-French Approach) Somatic Pattern Recognition in 1988 and as an instructor in DFA practitioner trainings in 1997, the year her first book Con los pies en el suelo – Forma del cuerpo y vision del mundo (With One’s Feet on the Ground – Body Shape and […]
The Pancreas: A Cautionary Tale
Over the last two years I have encountered a fair number of SI practitioners who do not know where the pancreas is located. This leads me to suspect that there are probably a fair number who also do not understand the functions of the pancreas. The pancreas is very vulnerable to injury with abdominal work […]
What is Hellerwork Structural Integration… What’s in a Theme?
The ongoing legacy of Structural Integration Having practiced SI since 1978, I have had the opportunity and privilege of facilitating thousands of people through the series of SI sessions, and of studying with many of the great SI teachers. As one of the very first practitioners who were trained by Joseph Heller, founder of Hellerwork […]