Welcome
Welcome to the Explorations in Wholeness™ web site.
Explorations in Wholeness™ is a series of classes which focus on relating to Wholeness and its expression of Inherent Motion as a source of healing. These classes will develop the contact skills necessary to perceive Wholeness and its subtly significant expressions. Your hands will become much more sensitive.
The purpose of the Explorations in Wholeness™ curriculum is to learn to experience Inherent Motion as a palpable ordering and organizing phenomenon and learn how to integrate its effects into our Structural Integration world view. You will experience what wholism feels like.
Most often we think of wholism emerging when all the parts are reorganized. In reality, wholism is ever present and is all that is present. It contains no parts. Wholism is not in us, it is us. The parts emerge into our attention when we choose to relate to them. (Is light a particle or a wave? It depends on what we choose to measure.)
You will learn how to shift your perception to relate to a much broader spectrum of what is under your hands. This will require a different way of thinking and being while working, thinking differently about oneself as a practitioner, and about how you “engage” tissue.
To provide a foundation for thinking differently, we’ll learn about our first embodiment as embryos, how Wholeness forms our 3 dimensional body and maintains and reorganizes it in the adult. We’ll feel this and observe it as a source of self ordering. A very simplistic way of thinking about these classes would be to say we will begin learning about “cranial touch” for the whole body. This class is both different and more than that.
You’ll learn how to relate to Wholeness as the palpable experience of Inherent Motion rather than as a concept. This will be supported by theory from embryology and the biodynamic model.
Explorations in Wholeness™ is for those experienced in cranial touch, and for those who are curious. For those who are experienced, it will provide a framework and explanation for what many may already be feeling in their hands and provide a more conscious access to those sensations instead of just feeling random occurrences. For those less experienced, it will provide a foundation for future continuing education classes and will greatly enhance what is presented in the Advanced Training through the Rolf Institute.
The foundational class — Inherent Motion – From Fascia to Fluids — is the first in a series offered through Explorations in Wholeness™. It introduces the contact skills necessary to relate to Inherent Motion and how it manifests in the various tissues and systems of the body. These skills will enhance learning about crainiosacral therapy, visceral work, and neural mobilization taught in other Continuing Education classes offered through the Rolf Institute®. These topics will be more easily understood and incorporated into your practice once you have acquired the advanced contact skills offered through the Explorations in Wholeness™ curriculum.
Inherent Motion is a huge topic! Topics of future classes include:
- Integration, what does it feel like, how it can be enhanced
- More efficiency in WORKING with the layers of availability
- Accelerating recovery from surgery and other traumatic events
- Pacing — synchronizing to the client’s pace of change
- Embryology – how it relates to our work as Rolfers
- The Sacral Cradle – Enhancing the pelvic lift
- Balancing autonomic nervous system tone
- Bones —
- Interosseous (between bones)
- Intraosseous (within bone) integration
- The ligamentous bed — “joint mobilization”
- Membranes (fascia, sheets, septa, dura, etc.)
- Balanced membraneous tension
- Balanced fluid tension
- The craniosacral system
- The fluid body
- The Neutral
- The Mid-line
- Stillness
- Primary respiration
The link below will take you to the description of the introductory class:
Inherent Motion – From Fascia to Fluids-Using the body’s own subtle motion to enhance the goals of Structural Integration.
Thomas Walker
970-870-2888
rolfingcenter@mac.com