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Re: [Structure_Integrator] Re: Is this forum dead?
hello group-
in response-
My
classes are fuller, people gave started ordering books and whatnot after a
hiatus, practitioners are talking about being busier. Anyone else out there
felt this change on energy?
in fact i have, and i consider it a blessing. what seemed to hold an uncertain place in the collective opinion, regarded possibly even a luxury, has been seen to be truly indispensible to the modern world. integrity on every level is developing renewed clout, even in the face of the disparaging headlines i run across daily. perhaps this is an instance of complimentary opposition emerging from the background of bush and 911, or perhaps recent events have simply challenged us to truly engage our values; whatever it takes i say.
I am interested in seeing the next
level of participatory openness happen: ISIA (or some such acronym): The
International Structural Integration Association - which would bring
together graduates of the various schools who wanted to go beyond the
confines of the individual schools and embrace the larger profession
so are many that i have spoken to, in fact it seems that the drift of the healing professions in general is to consolidate. the question that begs asking, for we seem to be a rather idealistic crew, is: what form is it that we shall take, and with what intention? is this community going to be primarily for business, or is this more for the advancement of the work as a body of structural practitioners? its ironically humorous to me that people so invested in the organization of the layers of a body around a line cant seem to get their own presence in the professional world coherent. you'd think we'd understand intuitively the organic principles of what a body requires to function as an integrated unit. hobbes wasnt hideously off base, perhaps organic principles can be used to organize collective bodies as well. any thoughts on this?
anyone one who has been involved in this forum at all (ive been lurking for over a year now) is well aware that some folks, i wont mention any names reda, have been going gangbusters on the idea of a unified information network. it seems to me that if this is our goal, any court we gather can be held over the internet. what are our other possiblilities as an organization? and then where and in what capacity should we meet?
Thde individual small schools all have their unique
flavors, but their have their blind spots and insularities too, such that we
are being left behind in the manipulatibe profession as others take up (or
discover for themselves) Ida's ideas one by one.
sad and also exciting, this seems unavoidable. Ed maupin and myself have been working on the development of a year long course in structural integration, and our first graduates are going to be coming out by this summer. they will not only have read and dialogued the rolfing book and other various materials, they will have audited several clients process, and performed (for what else is it to begin with) the ten sessions. more than this we have been encouraging the the exploration of the work as based in movement, that is instead of touching anatomies, getting the sense for movement in our own bodies as ancillary to touching the vitality of the client. ed of course has been teaching the ten sessioins for a long time, and the two of us together have come up with a new program that we are confident will take a competent and diversified bodyworker (we are drawing from the pool of 1200 hr massage trained students at IPSB in san diego) and turn them into a structural integrator. and still we both know that there are serious limitations that we face as educators in this field. the first and most serious being that our practitioners (although they will have a clinic to start from) have neither the recognition they deserve from others in the healing profession because rolfers or SIers or hellerworkers are not together in their own they are tribes with chieftains rather than a kingdom with divine right. its fight or fail out there for most. on the other side of this, they have no support aside from what ed and i provide with a clinic from their own community of practitioners. this to me, seems to be the greatest limitation of all.
now, it is being out in the boonies of the structural world that has forced us to not only be inventive, but scientific, experimental that is, in designing a program that will be optimal for education of somatic practitioners. what is the form of quality control the profession at large will have? how many hands will it rest in? are we ready as a community to come together, humbly, without asserting who is closer to 'the line,' or who is 'really' doing it. the great equalizer seems to me to be the video equipment pioneered for our community by jeff linn. and yet the visual is definitely not the only level on which i am working. perhaps im beginning to ramble, but it seems what we need to do as a community is gather and decide collectively what it is that structural integration is. it is out of ida's hands at this point and into our own. never having met the old lady, my impression of ida comes from her work, and her student's, but primarily it comes from my own experience of integrated movement. ive practiced movement arts for years now and every once in a while i catch a glimpse of effortless silky swinging in the vibrant volume of body. thats my main source, and thats what i aim to introduce in adult form to my clients via the ten session protocol and a general structural approach to any bodywork im engaged in. how do we get behind our subjective experience in a larger community? every attempt ive seen to philosophically talk about what we do is usually thwarted by some of the seniors' waspish comments to the new guys or the polemics they engage in with each other. are we ready as a group to come together? is it time for SI as a profession to apply effort towards its own definiton or is it perhaps better for the work to continue to develop as a diversified body until it has enough energy to spontaneously organize of its own accord?
It's too bad, but I don't
see any moves within any one school to take the lead, so that practitioners
with a more inclusive, populist, urbane, polycentric, and outward-looking
viewpoint have the opportunity to create a vision and lift the banner.
Anyone on for it?
yo, im down. but it seems we need to decide what the insignia on the banner is going to be before we figure out who is going to lift it, for that will determine who will follow. thanks for suggesting this publicly and allowing anyone to respond, i am of your camp sir, reporting for duty...where is our army?
pax vobiscum
henry price
ps- please pardon the epic length email, thoughts on my mind seem to leak out.
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