tructural ntegration S ® I THE JOURNAL OF THE ROLF INSTITUTE JUNE 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION: THE JOURNAL OF ® THE ROLF INSTITUTE FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 2 June 2017 Vol. 45, No. 2 COLUMNS Ask the Faculty: The Energetic Taxonomy 3 PUBLISHER The Rolf Institute of ‘ENERGY’ – ROLFING SI AND NONPHYSICAL REALITY Structural Integration Energy Work: Re-conceptualizing an Inclusive Spectrum 6 5055 Chaparral Ct., Ste. 103 of Interventions within an Informational Model of SI Boulder, CO 80301 USA Kevin Frank (303) 449-5903 The Felt Capacity to Do Work: Working with Energy 10 (303) 449-5978 Fax Jeffrey Maitland and Deborah Weidhaas Increasing Your Bandwidth: An Interview with Jim Oschman 13 EDITORIAL BOARD Michael Murphy and James Oschman Anne F. Hoff, Editor-in-Chief Shonnie Carson, Lineage Editor Energy, Geometry, and Presence: 20 Part 2 of an Interview with Ray McCall Szaja Gottlieb, Research/Science Editor Anne Hoff and Ray McCall Linda Loggins, Movement Editor Heidi Massa, Latin America Editor Intuition and Intention: The Yin and Yang of Subtle Energy 24 Keren’Or Pézard, Arts Editor Kathy McConnell John Schewe, Faculty Liason Integrating the Invisible: A Direct EM Approach 26 Matt Walker, Asia/Pacific Editor Deborah Stucker Naomi Wynter-Vincent, Europe Editor The Energetic Foundations of SI: An Origin Story 30 Diana Cary Bob Schrei Lynn Cohen Craig Ellis How Do We Know?: The Magic to See and to Hear in Order to Do 33 Theresa Zordan Lina Hack Dorothy Miller ‘Horse Listener’ 34 Meg Maurer Felisa Holmberg with Anne Hoff Deanna Melnychuk Recognizing Energy 38 Max Leyf Treinen Deborah Weidhaas Letting ‘What Is’ Show Itself: Jeffrey Maitland on 40 LAYOUT AND Mind, Zen, and Energy Work GRAPHIC DESIGN Anne Hoff and Jeffrey Maitland Susan Winter PERSPECTIVES Articles in Structural Integration: The Explorations of Earth and Sky: An Interview with Sally Klemm 44 Journal of The Rolf Institute® represent the Anne Hoff and Sally Klemm views and opinions of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official REVIEWS 49 positions or teachings of the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration. The Rolf Institute CONTACTS 50 reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to accept or reject any article for publication in Structural Integration: The Journal of The Rolf Institute. Structural Integration: The Journal of The Rolf Institute® (ISBN-13: 978-0997956931, ISSN 1538-3784) is published by the Rolf Institute, 5055 Chaparral Ct., Ste. 103, Boulder, CO 80301. Copyright ©2017 Rolf Institute. All rights reserved. Duplication in whole or in part in any form is prohibited without written permission from the publisher. “Rolfing®,” “Rolf Movement®,” “Rolfer™,” and the Little Boy Logo are service marks of the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration. FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ida Rolf believed that her work of Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) could support human evolution and potential. This evolutionary movement would come about through the work of aligning human beings in the gravitational field – the work of integrating the physical into something nonphysical (gravity) with which it closely interrelates. Rolfers™ live and work by her credo that “gravity is the therapist” and that alignment of the physical body in the gravitational field brings an embodied experience of the ‘Line’ and a sense of ‘lift’ – felt experiences that are hard to nail down with science. Rolf was a scientist, deeply embedded in that paradigm, but not constrained by it. She earned a doctorate in biochemistry, and initially engaged in a research career before developing Rolfing SI. She was also deeply interested in fields outside the ken of the mainstream science and medicine of her day, as indicated by her explorations in osteopathy and homeopathy. Moreover, her open-mindedness extended to domains more associated with the numinous, such as yoga, the work of Swedenborg, and the phenomena of ‘energy’. She seemed interested in all aspects of being human and in developing the human being. So Rolf was a scientist, engaged in the physical, and she was also something else – a mystic, a contemplative, psychically gifted? Whatever you choose to name it, she was curious about nonphysical, energetic phenomena that are not yet fully explained by science. In Rolf, the physical/nonphysical, or science/energy, met in how she talked about the work: often in terms of anatomy and biomechanics, yet sometimes in terms of an ancient mystery school (see Bob Schrei’s article in this issue). They met in how she was observed to practice Rolfing SI: firmly hands-on, relating to the physicality of the fascia, yet seemingly directed by more than the client’s intake or physical presentation revealed. (You can read examples of this in “Memories of Training with Ida Rolf,” my interview with Gael Rosewood and Sharon Wheeler in the July 2015 issue of this Journal). They also met in Rolf’s directives for how her work should be further explored: she wanted scientific research done to back up her method, but she also hoped that science would develop the instrumentation to explain how her method affected nonphysical phenomena such as ‘energy fields’. The September 1974 issue of the Bulletin of Structural Integration (the precursor of this Journal) published “Ida Rolf on Rolfing [SI],” based on a speech Rolf gave to an annual membership meeting. She said: People . ask, “What does Dr. Rolf want?” . Here is the answer . I want to see what happens to the energy fields in and around an individual as you order his structure and what is the change in his behavior that parallels this change in energy. I want to see whether those fields get broader, whether they get brighter, whether they get more vertical, whether they get less confused. I want to see whether fields interdigitate, etc. These are all directions in which logically we should and must go if we are to fulfill what I envision as our destiny. In 2017, some forty years later, I wonder how Dr. Rolf would view the state of affairs in the Rolfing community in regards to this wish. Although many Rolfers share her interest in the nonphysical, in ‘energy’, we have kept these questions of the numinous well out of the main thrust of our teaching and discussion of Rolfing SI. Rolf could inhabit two worlds – science/energy (or physical/nonphysical) – with fluidity. Many of us cannot, or do so quietly, lest it influence perception of our work. Later in that 1974 article, Rolf alludes to throwing out “bait” in hopes of catching fish in her audience: I hope that among you there are the kind of fish that will go out and bring in another school of fish . Not to get their aches and pains taken out, not to have their symptoms removed, but that they might contribute to the understanding of energy in the human universe. This issue of Structural Integration: The Journal of the Rolf Institute® is dedicated to the theme of “Rolfing SI and Nonphysical Reality” – aka “Rolfing SI and ‘Energy’.” While the Rolfing community has no unified view or teaching on ‘energy’, Rolf did catch a number of “fish” in her time, and they have, in turn, caught others. Here, a number of them – Jeffrey Maitland, Ray McCall, Kevin Frank, Jim Oschman, Bob Schrei, Deborah Stucker, Deborah Weidhaas, Kathy McConnell, Theresa Zordan, and Felisa Holmberg – share their understandings of and work with Rolfing SI as it relates to energy, to the subtle, to the nonphysical. Perhaps in the process they will catch a few more fish for this endeavor that so interested Dr. Rolf. Anne F. Hoff Editor-in-Chief 2 Structural Integration / June 2017 www.rolf.org COLUMNS by Thomas Kuhn. New paradigms are Ask the Faculty appearing that may, over time, break the resistance of the older ones and lead to The Energetic Taxonomy a new understanding of reality – and its possible levels. Q: Ida Rolf was a scientist, but she also had an interest in how Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) affected human beings on many levels, including the energetic. In the meantime, I ‘gauge’ my words How do you relate to the energetic taxonomy and see its impact on SI outcomes? according to the context. I include the How can we represent that dimension of our work in a plausible manner that ‘energetic’ aspect of our work whenever I helps to promote our work in the larger world? am communicating with a client/audience that is already within the framework of such questioning. For those more ‘evidence- A: First of all, I believe in openly including where I tried to quantify client responses based’ counterparts, I may bring up the the energetic taxonomy in our concept of from NAPER questionnaires and reports. existence of ‘unexpected’ or ‘unexplainable’ the work. We don’t need to have all the I believe that producing simple but honest observations and relate them to quantum answers to this complex issue, just a stance papers and case studies in this way could physics and to transdiciplinarity, bringing of reflecting on it, trying to find out from begin to shed light on the energetic up the idea of a possible scientific revolution our own experience its definition and its phenomena seen in Rolfing SI. This sort of that may eventually give us a broader scope in our work. How do we affect energy work should come from the community as a comprehension of our existence. and how does energy affect our work? The whole. Although the faculty are wanting to point is how to frame this inquiry in an Luiz Fernando Bertolucci better articulate the energetic taxonomy, my elegant, open, and constructive way. To do belief is the answers will not come from top Fascial Anatomy Instructor this collectively would show the public that down.