Dear Eric - KMI practitioners learn a 3-session series (essenitally 8-9-10 -
girdle-girdle-spine) in their 'auditing' (Part 1) phase. Eli will soon be
in my 10-session 'practitioning' phase.

Dear Eli - Reach through (i could almost say between if that doesn'r sound
too siry-fairy) the fat to reach the underlying leotard and myofascial
layers. Make her longer. Do not throw her out a window. More superficial
tissues will generally normalize in the months after a series. For sure,
some binge-purge eaters will have compromised the fascial net of the adipose
layer, sometimes beyond restoration. Look and think and intend-invite below
the fat layer, and then give it time to rearrange.

Regards, T

bostonmassage wrote:

> Hello all, I (Eli) am new to this group and looking forward to
> learning and sharing lots...
> I am a beginner KMI practitioner (taken the first workshops)
> practicing lots of the basic 3-part series. Love the work and so do
> my clients.
>
> My latest (haven't started yet) is a middle aged woman who has been
> through massive weight fluctuations in her life (5'6" between 115 to
> 245, now about 160ish?). She seems like a pretty straightforward 3-
> part session; however, I am concerned about working through her fat
> layers. It almost seems as if the structural tissues organizing her
> adipose layers have been overstretched. The fat around her arms,
> thighs, and to a lesser extent, waist acts like a half filled
> balloon, sloshing around and pooling on the table around her
> structurally stable musculature. I'm concerned that doing deep,
> broad structural work over these compromised tissues might exaggerate
> the problem (i.e. stretch the balloon out even more).
> Seeing and working on this kind of tissue has re-awakened an old
> concern of doing structural work on the obese. Could this work push
> structurally sound fat layers toward this extreme? Might our fat
> clients stand straighter but sag a little lower? (Is there net height
> gain?) I think the origin of my unease was a picture I saw on the
> web of a severely obese woman who jumped out of a window. It seemed
> as if the impact completely sheared the structural stability of her
> superficial tissues. What I saw was a moderately obese woman lying
> within a pool of her own skin/fat. Quite disturbing.... (Hope I'm
> not sharing too much)
> Any comments would be appreciated, thanks. Eli
>
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