that reads very much like the lectures of the Fascia conference :)
Aimee'
On Oct 12, 2007, at 10:13 PM, DoctorDohn@... wrote:

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> (With apologies for terrible rythym and rhyme,
> This sounded much better when I delivered it in mime)
> Hyatt Regency
> Near the campus of MIT,
> Across the river from Harvard,
> IASI, an educational soiree...
> Janice and I adventure,
> The Youth Hostel across the Charles,
> The price is right, we nourish each other,
> No need for status or laurels.
> Gathering Friday at the Hyatt,
> Who’s talking to who?,
> Superficial contact,
> “Hello, how are you?”
> Tables of vendors,
> Sharing, selling, promoting,
> Grace and ease with balance,
> And whole body emoting.
> The food was great and plenty,
> Crab cakes, scallops and more,
> Offered by circulating Tuxedoes,
> Small talk to sharing our lore.
> Moving Forward begins with Tom Meyers,
> Well, Mike Kastris does the introductions,
> Tom is all heart with an intellect for factual,
> Shared of the Facial Research, at Harvard,
> Science types describing the natural.
> Tom is sometimes Obie Wan Kenobi,
> And occassionally Hans Solo,
> His inner Darth Vader to maintain control,
> Presides over us all
> We are loosely under control.......
> At the Facial Congress we’re getting validation,
> Recognition for what we know,
> Big words and big concepts,
> To describe how we all go.....
> Judith Astin then takes the stage,
> Playful, room for fun and rage,
> She is the perfect powerful elf,
> The subtleties of movement,
> All expressing the Self.
> Sit, stand and breathe,
> Then sit, stand and breathe,
> The elusive obvious is felt,
> We discover our ease.
> The ghosts were out aplenty,
> Dr. Ida led the gathering,
> We stand on the shoulders of greatness,
> Even when we’re blathering.......
> Sat morning Yoga,
> Art Kilmurray the Master,
> Stretch, breathe discover,
> Move slow, deliberate, not faster.
> The Mayor of Cambridge makes an appearance.
> Seems his roommate at Harvard years ago
> Is Structural Integrator Teacher George Kousaleos.
> From the Core Institute. How about that?
> We are known.
> Joseph Heller, our very own Yoda,
> Master of Gravity, lives in his heart,
> The answers are within us,
> Metaphysical gravity is the start.
> (“Love is Metaphysical Gravity”..Bucky Fuller as remembered by Joseph)
> Joeseph shared stories of beginnings,
> Ambitions only for what’s right,
> From Liberal to Conservative,
> Joe’s allegiance is always to the light.
> Thank you Ida, Brugh Joy, the Stones and others,
> Joe’s life was given and shaped,
> We get to stand in his doorway,
> And step into his world of love.........
> Off to Regina and Sarah,
> Passion in Action without strife,
> Movement IS the Ten Series,
> Movement defines all life.
> Pedro Prado from Brazil,
> Psychobiology of our work,
> Again the obvious is elusive,
> Emotions, in our tissues, do lurk.
> Conrad Obermier,
> Embryology that makes sense,
> DNA, merely the cookbook,
> Doesn’t create by itself,
> Responds and creates to pressure and tension,
> We are all complete all the time,
> Needing only to pay attention.....
> Apply some pressure, some tension to grow,
> Working energy to express,
> Everything is available, we all know..........
> Each cell and nucleus,
> Well connected by facia tendrils to push and to pull,
> Environmental pressures shape and change us,
> The DNA library is waiting for us to push or pull
> The necessary information for our next evolution.
> Wow, here in Boston,
> I feel like a Patriot,
> Part of a Human Revolution,
> Joseph, Tom, Conrad and you,
> Leading and shaping our Human evolution.
> Sat night dancing and fun,
> Reluctantly we all stayed clothed,
> Organized bodies like naked,
> Though some of us are way too old....
> Sunday morning Anita Boser,
> Undulating, we swim in our fluidity,
> Aliveness permeates every cell,
> Too obvious for my sometimes stupidity.
> The simplicity of undulating movement,
> Too easy, too remedial for us pro’s
> As good as any yoga or movement,
> Doing it all fully clothed......
> Anita ignites life and brightness,
> I shine as I move my all,
> Smarter, healthier and happier,
> Undulation is fun, really a ball.
> Emily Conrad’s dark places,
> Suspended, nourished with no effort,
> Relaxing into power,
> The channel of fluids we are,
> Life happens through our
> Well contained shower.
> Oxytocin all the time,
> Eros is our birthright,
> Movement, joy the cosmos,
> We’re touched, we know this is right.
> George Kousaleos and the Sacred Ligament,
> Sacro-tuberous to be anatomically correct,
> Freedom here in our structural foundation,
> Sacrum to Ischium, brings multi-fidia elation.
> Dan Bienenfeld’s magic of body reading,
> Experience and practice become teachers,
> Dan channels the teachings so well,
> On the court, never in the bleachers...
> Too many classes to experience,
> Like Disneyland, “Where do I go?”
> I apologize for not reporting more,
> This is just too big of a show.
> Ours is the world of touch,
> Tangible, real, it matters,
> Sometimes words they fail us,
> Peace with gravity or else we spatters.
> The contact-deprived as children,
> We create a life of loving touch,
> Structural Integration is the vehicle,
> Expressing love, never too much.
> Wounded healers all of us,
> Abused, abandoned, forlorn,
> Building a life of service,
> Touching the broken and worn.
> I took the G-D. test,
> If I failed, I don’t give a s**t,
> Intellectual testing, I don’t like it,
> Not even one little bit.
> Paralysis through analysis,
> We should test on undulation,
> Relationship to Human Beings,
> Heal the world and even a nation.
> Joseph presided over Completion,
> Holding hands we connected our tissues,
> The space of love and belonging,
> Melted ALL of our issues.
> Next we’ll be bigger and better,
> Hellerwork, Vancouver, 2008,
> Then IASI in Malta, 2009
> I’m saving money,
> Those trips will be mine.
> Oh Ida, you still hold us together,
> Magnificent, Ecstatic, Belonging,
> Pressure and tension in tensegrity balance,
> Grateful, serene and complete.
> Big Gratitudes to Marilyn Beech, Mike Kastris, Scott Gautier and
> everyone
> else who knows the best service is done anonymously.
> Thank you.
> Jim Dohn
>
> All things are possible.
> Not necessarily easy,
> But possible.
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