Heading off for Denver tomorrow to participate in the IASI cross-school faculty meeting. IASI is the professional organization for Structural Integrators. It has an important role in identifying and promoting the cause of structural work in society. For too many years, the conflicting interests among the SI schools (for students, for influence, for ‘being right’) held sway over the common interests, which has not been good for the legacy of Ida Rolf’s work.
This meeting and others like it are designed to provide a platform from cross-pollination among the faculty of the different schools – the Rofl Institute, the Guild, Hellerwork, Soma, KMI etc – where a common core curriculum can be identified, common interests in seeing structural work spread more widely promoted strategized, and leftover enmity banished in a warm fraternal glow.
OK< maybe that’s going too far, but we are a small group, behind the times, long over-involved in introspection, and we need to move to catch up if structural work is going to take its rightful place.