An update to an earlier post:
Structural Integration Brands
I am often asked what is the difference between Kinesis and Rolfing, and some of this is already spelled out on our web site:
For what it’s worth, here’s my take on the subject: the Rolf Institute and other SI schools offer excellent education. Each school has its own flavour, and different students will be better suited to the different emphases. Some are more anatomically or clinically oriented, some more psychologically or spiritually oriented. My problem is I like it all, so we try to include all aspects in our training. There are, in any case, far greater differences among practitioners than among the schools, so you will find (and should search out) a practitioner who ‘fits’ you, just as with a school. All that said: Anatomy Trains is a map of interest to a wide variety of practitioners of many methods, manual and movement. KMI is one application of Anatomy Trains to human structural compensation patterns. KMI is definitely evolved from the pioneering work of Dr. Ida Rolf, and the principles of the KMI 12-series are to her credit, not mine. KMI is unique in basing the sessions around these myofascial continuities, the Anatomy Trains. This makes the method independent of “Ida said do this next” kind of thinking, and easier to explain rationally to other professionals. I like to think we build good perceptual skills – both hands and eyes – in our students, and that we are friendly to and inclusive of other methods rather than being aloof or exclusionary. But as I say, all the schools and all the practitioners I know are sincerely trying to do their best to educate people in changing structural and movement patterning. And it’s a rapidly evolving field.