Inherent Motion CE Class

Location:	Boulder, CO
Dates & Times:	August 23-26, 2012
	8:30 AM – 5:30 PM

ENROLLMENT LIMIT– THIS CLASS IS LIMITED TO 14 STUDENTS

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Inherent Motion – From Fascia to Fluids

Using the body’s own subtle motion to enhance the goals of Structural integration

Instructor:  Thomas Walker

The purposes of this 4-day workshop are:

1. to broaden your range of contact by developing the listening and contact skills needed to perceive the various rhythms of inherent motion.
2. to apply these perceptions to a broad range of approaches commonly used in Structural Integration practice.
3. to learn skills with which you can:
   • Palpate inherent motion as force of self-organizion and wholeness.
   • enhance integration
   • work more efficiently and effectively with less effort
   • resolve layers of dysfunction and disorganization within all layers of fascia including bones and the ligamentous bed
   • learn to bring the body’s resources to injured tissue allowing fascial interventions to be easier and longer lasting

In this workshop, you will 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 be introduced to the contact skills necessary to relate to Inherent Motion and how it manifests in the various tissues and fluids of the body. This class provides a logical, accessible bridge between working with the physical body and the energetic body.

This class is for those who have no experience with cranial touch as well as those who are experienced. Often those who are inexperienced integrate the skills more easily as there isn’t any unlearning of inefficient habits. For those who have cranial contact skills, learning how to apply these skills to the whole body and fit them into the Rolfing paradigm will be explored.

Different tissues express Inheret Motion with different tempos and qualities. Easing superficial fascia is different than rehydrating ligaments or untwisting a bone. Since our bodies are 70 – 80% fluids it is important to examine their function. In the model we will study, the ordering and integrating motions of Inherent Motion are in the fluids. By learning to perceive and palpate the fluid body, our work with the very fluid fascial system will be greatly enhanced.

How one relates to the various fascial components requires that we shift within ourselves in subtle yet significant ways. You will learn how to shift your perception so that a much broader spectrum of what is under your hands reveals itself. This will require a different way of thinking and being while working, thinking differently about oneself as a practitioner, and about how you “engage” tissues.

To provide a foundation for thinking differently, you will be introduced to The Continuum of Contact™ which is a summarization of the process Dr. Sutherland went through in experiencing, working with and describing the 3 forms of cranial osteopathy – biomechanical, functional and biodynamic. The Continuum of Contact provides a logical, seamless progression of learning to experience Inherent Motion and its expressions in different tissues and fluids.

The goal of Structural Integration is to optimize embodiment. An examination of how we become embodied as embryos will give us clues about how that process continues in the adult body. We’ll learn how Wholeness, as expressed through Inherent Motion, forms our 3 dimensional body and maintains and organizes it in the adult. This examination will reveal how function precedes structure and orders the anatomy. Learning to synchronize with these expressions of function and order will reorganize structures in the adult.
A vast majority of class time will be dedicated to hands – on learning. As you trade sessions you will assimilate skills are easily integrated into your practice and will greatly enhance the ease with which you work and the breadth of each intervention.

The class is open to all Structural Integration practitioners.

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