This course is designed to combine the concepts of advanced structural body work and BodyTalk philosophy. It provides the practitioner with a powerful tool to reorganize the bodies’ posture, movement patterns and emotional/spiritual holding patterns.

When the body has been under chronic, emotional, or physical stress, it will compensate in the liquid crystal matrix of the body, known as the fascial system. The fascia is not only the connective tissue of the body but also a medium for communication, movement, projection and protection. When the fascia is compromised, it shortens and has a dramatic effect on the all levels of health, flexibility, adaptability, movement and posture. While in this class you will learn how to have a greater impact on the physical body and understand its relationship within the energy body.

Students who have taken this training report dramatic shifts in the efficacy of their work. Clients tend to feel the shifts on a more physical level thus resulting in lasting and more powerful sessions. This is very important for clients when they do not always feel the energetic shifts in their bodymind!

Course Objectives

• Understanding the anatomy and function of the fascial system.


• How to feel the fascia release and reorganize.


• Learning specific techniques and strategies to release fascial restrictions.


• Understanding how the fascial system compensates within itself to heal and provide protection.


• Learning how these compensations also may hold harmful belief systems, attitudes and pathologies that often will not resolve until the fascia
  is reorganized into a healthier pattern.


• Using the five senses internally for better body awareness on all levels.


• Understanding the relationships of body parts and systems, and how these relationships can be related to dysfunction within the bodymind.


• Learn about the tensegrity model and how it applies to the energy systems.


• Learning how to be heart centered as you work to ensure that you are merely holding the space as a facilitator, giving you better results and
  protection from your client’s energies.


• Feeling the fascial system untangle and reorganize in your own body as a means of self care.


• Learn how to project your awareness into your clients so that you can have more accurate and effective links.


• Using the reciprocals more directly to release restrictive patterns in the body.


• Understanding the body’s relationship with gravity and pressure forces and how they may lead to chronic pain and emotional stress.


• Learn advanced “Plug Ins”. New standard parallel sessions revealed to help the body reorganize its fascia and holding patterns and then
  integrate them to all compensations in the fascial system and emotional body.

New Philosophies

Tensegrity

Means “tensional integrity”. The bones and fascial tissues of the body form a complex unit of tensional and compressive dynamics that allow the body to be very light weight and flexible while allowing for great strength and durability. When a body is in harmony, the tensegrity complex is at ease and the bodymind functions extremely efficiently. When facial compensations occur, the tensegrity structure is compromised which can lead to extensive postural, biomechanical, emotional and energetic restrictions. “Fascia supports weight. Weight goes up, not down. Bones do not carry weight.”-Ida Rolf

“The Line”

Structural Integrators speak of “the line” as a vertical line that connects the grounding and spiritual aspects of the body. We strive to orient our bodies around this line via posture. In a poorly organized body, it is not well grounded and the attunement with the Divine is compromised.

“The concept of “the line” is what links the integration of structure in the realm of physics and physiology to the realm of metaphysics, and is the bridge between physical reality and non-physical reality.”-Betsy Sise

Relationships and Relatedness

Each cell and body part has a relationship with all of the other cells in the bodymind. Poor relationships in the body mind can be related to symptoms and compensations in other systems within the body mind. For instance: “What is the relationship of the foot and knee and how is this related to the head position, indigestion or pathological fear of the client?”

Costumes

Advancing the concept of “Masks” from module three. The body will often put on “costumes” of posture to protect or project emotional and spiritual patterns. These fascial patterns must often be balanced before the underlying belief systems and attitudes can be released.

Sensory Motor Amnesia

One of our goals in structural integration is to get our clients to “live in” every cell of our body. We tend to cope by living “in our heads” or projecting with our senses outside of our body most of the time. Learning how to invite our clients to live inside their bodymind and bringing sensory awareness into all of the cells crucial to their continued health and personal growth.

“Without the soul, the body would have no form. Without the body the soul would not have its required organs of sense through which it gains knowledge.”-Thomas Aquinas

Fascial Storage and Compensation

A new chart of the bodyminds attitudinal storage and compensation patterns will be introduced. For example: The body may store or anchor insecurity and controlling beliefs systems in the lower leg via fascial restriction. The fascial system will then have to compensate throughout leading to more tension. Eventually the neck fascia will restrict and harbor its own pathological attitudes such as anger, and bitterness. As you can see if these attitudes are being played out, we may be led via priority to release the holding patterns of the control consciousness before the compensating anger can be resolved.

Modules 1, 2 and 3 are prerequisites for this training. It is a three day course totaling 24 hours of IBA continuing education. A fourth day will be added in some locations for those who want mastery training in working with the energetic fascial system, worth 8 hours of IBA continuing education.