IASI Yearbook 2012

Abstract Although we may consider ourselves therapists of the body, we are more so facilitators and educators of change in human lives and living according to the lineage of structural integration (SI). This article opens discussion and awareness of SI practitioners’ impact as facilitators of change using some of the learning models in adult education. Learning models chosen for the purposes of this paper and affiliation to the SI model include critical reflection and thinking, self-directed learning, and transformational learning. We have the ability to guide our clients toward autonomy and self- realization by our own awareness of concepts, including those mentioned above in conjunction with fascial re-patterning. The outcome of this shift in definition for an SI practitioner from therapist to facilitator creates ease, grace, and breadth in our work.

Darrell Sanchez, PhD, is a Certified Advanced Rolfer™, psychotherapist, Rolf Movement® Practitioner, Craniosacral Therapist, and professional dance instructor and performer. He is moved by expressions of elegance wherever they appear, whether in dance, structural integration, or as revelations of mastery in other fields of endeavor. Darrell may be reached at [email protected].

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Pedro Prado, PhD, Certified Advanced Rolfer™ and Rolf Movement® Practitioner of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is a member of the Advanced and Movement Faculties of the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration®. In 1981, he became the first Certified Rolfer™ from Brazil and brought the work to Latin America. He was a founding member of Brazil’s regional Rolfing® association, Associação Brasileira de Rolfing/Brazilian Rolfing Association (ABR). He is a clinical psychologist and a former professor of Somatic Psychology at the Catholic University of Sao Paulo. Currently, he is exploring the psychobiological dimension of SI in his practice, teaching, and research. He has developed extensive clinical and teaching protocols to both track and evaluate SI process outcomes, and to enhance awareness of the psychobiological perspective. These protocols include Quality of Life assessments made according to World Health Organization methods. His pioneering research, which correlates SI with improved quality of life, has been published as part of his doctoral dissertation. He created the Ida P. Rolf Library of Structural Integration, a Virtual Library, where one can find complete collections of articles from six SI publications, as well as other academic pieces. Since 1998, he has been a practitioner of Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (SE) and is now an SE Instructor. He has developed a method called Structural Stretches that draws upon the principles and wisdom of both SI and SE