tructural ntegration S ® I THE JOURNAL OF THE ROLF INSTITUTE JUNE 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION: THE JOURNAL OF COLUMNS THE ROLF INSTITUTE® Ask the Faculty: Rolfing® SI After the Ten Series 2 June 2014 Rolf Movement® Faculty Perspectives: 6 Vol. 42, No. 1 A Conversation with Aline Newton PUBLISHER ROLFERS™ IN SERVICE The Rolf Institute of Sink or Swim: Lessons Learned in the Boulder Flood 9 Structural Integration Hyrum Pratt Feriante 5055 Chaparral Ct., Ste. 103 The Experience of Working in Post-Disaster Fukushima 10 Boulder, CO 80301 USA Hiroyoshi Tahata and Anne Hoff (303) 449-5903 (303) 449-5978 Fax Giving Back to the Elders: Sharing Rolfing SI 13 (800) 530-8875 with Indigenous People Sandy Collins EDITORIAL BOARD Innovations in Caring: Serving Low-Income Clients through 14 Anne Bruce An Integrated Approach John Barton and Amy Iadarola Craig Ellis Jazmine Fox-Stern Szaja Gottlieb REFLECTIONS FROM THE FIRST GENERATION Anne F. Hoff, Editor-in-Chief Fascia as an Auto-Regulatory System: 16 Amy Iadarola An Interview with Tom Myers (Part One) Kerry McKenna Tom Myers and Bruce Schonfeld Linda Loggins Expansional Balance and the ‘Line’ 19 Heidi Massa Edward W. Maupin Meg Maurer On Treating Clients with Chronic Pain: An Interview with Jim Asher 21 Robert McWilliams Jim Asher and Robert McWilliams Deanna Melchynuk John Schewe The Rolfing SI Life: Delights and Cautions 24 Nicholas French and Anne Hoff LAYOUT AND Rolfing SI in Context: Esalen, 1967 and Follow-Up Interview 27 GRAPHIC DESIGN James Allen and Robert McWilliams Susan Winter PERSPECTIVES Articles in Structural Integration: The Move in Mind™ – Adapting Rolfing SI to the Needs of 29 Journal of The Rolf Institute® represent the Neurologically Impaired Clients: An Interview with Monica Canducci views and opinions of the authors and Monica Canducci and Jeff Castle do not necessarily represent the official The Being of Rolfing SI 33 positions or teachings of the Rolf Institute Jeffrey Maitland of Structural Integration. 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When we work with a client past the Ten Series, Rolfing® SI After the Ten Series or on a regular basis, we are responsible for guiding and supporting an evolution, Q: I saw an old class handout that quoted Ida Rolf as saying: “Continuous Rolfing [Structural Integration an evolution that awakens holistic changes (SI)] on advanced bodies may make them grow shorter and certainly does little good unless the Rolfer™: for meeting real-world problems. 1) manages to reach a deeper level than in previous [sessions]; 2) works at a higher level of integration; or We do this in many ways. In terms of 3) finds the place that has never been touched before.” Could you please discuss this from your own augmenting a client’s capacity to meet experience, as guidance towards goals for post-ten work, and as it applies to both traditional fascial demand, pre-movement serves to make the work and also the possible inclusion of things like cranial, visceral, and neural considerations for point. ‘Pre-movement’ is a term that refers overall structural integration? to the preparation for movement that occurs in anticipation of action. Once the body advice to continue to take integration A: No matter how effective an initial prepares to move, the motor pattern is mostly deeper, it’s worth drilling further into the Rolfing Ten Series, what is the measure of determined for the anticipated movement. If integration idea. An individual who has our work for the long haul? What is it that we want to evoke lasting change in posture given considerable attention to the question makes a Rolfer a valued member of his/her and movement, pre-movement is a pivotal is Daniel Siegel, a neuroscience-based community, a resource that people turn to moment. Coaching a client to change pre- psychiatrist at UCLA, faculty member over and over to help them live life more movement is a fascinating and productive of the Center for Culture, Brain, and fully and less expensively? How do we way to work, limited mostly by the client’s Development, and the Co-Director of the offer care, and maintain integrity? After a motivation and interest, which, in turn, Mindful Awareness Research Center. Siegel’s Ten Series (or post-ten work) has been lived is mostly limited by our capacity to make work has many parallels to our own. His into, worked with, how can a practitioner it interesting. Were we to only frame our recent book, The Mindful Therapist, offers and client continue to deepen the work? work as the study and improvement of practical and scientifically based approaches pre-movement, how many sessions we do There are many domains of body therapy that to therapeutic holism. In the “Mindsight” with a client would not be an issue. Using can keep a practice busy – cranial approach, portion of his website (http://drdansiegel. all our skills of tissue mobilization, sensory visceral approach, nerve approach, counter- com/about/mindsight), Siegel writes: strain, to name a few. All these have potential tracking, perception, meeting simple and benefit, and embodied Rolfing practitioners D e f i n e d a s t h e l i n k a g e o f complex movement demand, quiet presence, bring added dimensions to these allied differentiated components of a and capacity to educate and explain all therapies. If we limit the discussion to system, integration [emphasis added] these phenomena, there is no limit to the more traditional domains of SI – to the is viewed as the core mechanism depth of integration that can occur. And ways we can support postural evolution in the cultivation of well-being. In as we investigate pre-movement, we find and capacity to meet daily challenges with an individual’s mind, integration that there is pre-movement and pre-pre- elongation, whether the demand is physical involves the linkage of separate movement and pre-pre-pre-movement and or psychological – how might we think aspects of mental processes to each so on. We solve one level of pre-movement about and act on Dr. Rolf’s exhortation other, such as thought with feeling, only to encounter a deeper one. Eventually to find a deeper level of integration? This bodily sensation with logic. In a the pre-movement we are bringing attention question leads to another question: what is relationship, integration entails each to is going to be subtle, perhaps at a level of integration? It’s part of our job title, and Rolf person’s being respected for his or inherent motion or stillness. her autonomy and differentiated self advises us to find more of it, but what is it? How might you ground this idea in felt while at the same time being linked to sense? An example of pre-movement is Let’s consider integration through the lens others in empathic communication. of developmental process. A child learns to the set of actions that precede raising your locomote, first through small submovements Siegel proposes that for any system (such as arm to any particular height. Try it out. such as grasping, elongating, contracting, a human body), parts can be differentiated While seated, raise your arm. Now notice reaching and pushing, squirming and – given clear separateness from each other what you do to get ready. And raise your twisting. Then, as the child begins to – and then linked with one another. The arm again. Now repeat observation of crawl, we could say she has integrated greater the proliferation of connections preparation and raise your arm again. If the pieces into a new functional whole. within a system (in which individual you pay attention you will find there are Similarly, clients are invited to regain flow components have been differentiated), nested levels of orientation, perception, in submovements and then allow them to the greater the well-being, the greater the stabilization, and body satisfaction. join together into something that supports integration. This model lends itself well to Conscious pre-movement might include functionality. Integration brings the sense of SI, and to a model of SI that values discovery simply noticing where you tighten to move, well-being that comes from a body in better and education as much as repeated release and awareness might refine itself to notice flow, which can be defined as the ease that of tissue fixations, something about which where you feel the sense of weight, or what follows from more optimized patterns of Rolf cautioned.