For over a quarter of a century, I have practiced Somatic Education. But often, I would identify my work with various modalities: massage, Rolfing(R), polarity, etc. instead of Somatic Education. I would choose the modality to meet the needs of the client, and those needs were often acute or chronic pain, momentary or prolong stress, clumsiness or body image conflicts.
But underlying all those needs, I concluded, was the unspoken assumption: my body is a foreign land. Whether I'm doing massage, Rolfing(R), cranial-sacral, medical Qi Gong with you, I'm helping you to come home to your body. I'm helping you to "re-member" what you have "dis-membered." I graduated from the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics in Albuquerque New Mexico in 1984.
But underlying all those needs, I concluded, was the unspoken assumption: my body is a foreign land. Whether I'm doing massage, Rolfing(R), cranial-sacral, medical Qi Gong with you, I'm helping you to come home to your body. I'm helping you to "re-member" what you have "dis-membered." I graduated from the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics in Albuquerque New Mexico in 1984.
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I was first Rolfed between 1979 and 1981. The experience had such a profound effect that I decided to change my career from teaching college English to Rolfing. In the process of becoming a Rolfer, I first became a massage therapist in 1984, graduating from the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics.
Rolfing is like a journey: for some, it is a trip to the store; for others, a summer vacation with the family, and still for others, it is a month on the beach. For those of us who become Rolfers, the process is more like a pilgrimage. For some, the journey will last only a session; for others, the entire ten sessions, and still for others, lifetimes.
Rolfing Movement Integration is a system of movement education based on the concepts developed for Rolfing by Ida P. Rolf PhD, the founder of Rolfing. Rolfing Movement Integration focuses on developing balance and support for action in the gravitational field, on learning to move harmoniously with gravity, and on evoking an open and responsive body in which inner strength and centered-ness can be chosen instead of dependency and armoring.
I categorize my massage practice into two modalities: Swedish and connective tissue. But each modality includes techniques from all the modalities in which I've been trained. Depending upon your needs, my Swedish massage may include cranio-sacral, polarity, connective tissue, acupressure, etc. Same could be said for my connective tissue massage.
My underlying assumption in energy work is that disrupted flows of energy in, through, or out your body are contributing to your unease. By intervening into those flows, the disruptions are changed, diminished, or disappeared.
I make a distinction between energy work and body work because the expectations, the methods, and the interventions appear different, but after practicing somatic education for more than twenty-five years, I've concluded that all body work is energy work; it's just seems that the muscles, organs, skin, etc. are solid, but in reality, they are units of dense energy.My energy work is eclectic.
I make a distinction between energy work and body work because the expectations, the methods, and the interventions appear different, but after practicing somatic education for more than twenty-five years, I've concluded that all body work is energy work; it's just seems that the muscles, organs, skin, etc. are solid, but in reality, they are units of dense energy.My energy work is eclectic.
