Today's conversation is with Mary Bond 

Mary Bond studied with Ida Rolf from 1969 to 1972. Emeritus Movement Faculty of the Rolf Institute, she has been involved in the development of movement education for SI from the early days with Judith Aston to the current evolution through the work of Hubert Godard. 

She is the author of Balancing Your Body, the New Rules of Posture, and Your Body Mandala: Posture and Presence. She has also produced a DVD: Heal Your Posture. Since 2020, Mary has been offering online workshops for SI practitioners and other somatic educators. It is her joy to share her perspective of movement education. 

In today's conversation we spoke about Mary's background as a dancer and finding the work of Ida Rolf, Rolfing and Rolf Movement History, Tensegrity and Perceptual Tensegrity, Body Mandala, how to work with Mary, and more. 

You can learn more about Mary and read her blog at www.healyourposture.com. Or reach her directly: [email protected]

Her Books can be found here 

Your Body Mandala: Posture as a Path to Presence https://amzn.to/3KlFLYO

The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit, Stand, and Move in the Modern World https://amzn.to/3xqQdZ9

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Today's conversation is with Todd Harrgrove

Todd is a an author, blogger, and manual and movement therapist. He completed training programs in the Feldenkrais Method and Rolfing. He used to be an attorney.

You can find out more about Todd at toddhargrove.substack.com

His Books can be found here 

A Guide to Better Movement: The Science and Practice of Moving With More Skill And Less Pain 

Playing With Movement: How to Explore the Many Dimensions of Physical Health and Performance

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Today's talk is a little different than our usual talks as we are in conversation about former Rolfer, Actor, and Artist John Lodge. We speak with his ex-wife Margaret VanderWaerden and EGSI Founder Ales Urbanczik about who he was, how he came to this work and what marvels he has left behind.  

A new book has come out from the European Guild for Structural Integration about John and the work he was given from Dr Ida Rolf. They have pieced together parts of this work with additional sections by other Structural Integrators sharing their comments and stories.  It's truly a great book for the beginner and the advanced practitioner, I can't recommend enough.  

We started with a little tech issues, and because of this our usual introduction has been cut off. We find our conversation beginning with Margaret talking about who John Lodge was and we just role on from there. 

The book we speak about can be purchased here https://rolfguild.ch/JohnLodgeBook.html

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Today's conversation is with Scott Zamurut

Scott RCST® is a student, practitioner, and teacher of somatic and energetic healing arts with over 30 years in the field. Scott’s broad training background includes massage therapy, Polarity Therapy, private mentoring in structural integration, group leadership and dynamics, and ontological coaching. All of these studies support his primary focus in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST), and Pre and Perinatal education and healing.

As a student and teacher trainee in the first BCST training with Franklyn Sills in the US, Scott is among the longest tenured Biodynamics teachers in North America. He worked with Franklyn, and other senior British teachers for 12 years during his time as a student and teacher trainee.

He was also fortunate to work extensively in the Pre and Perinatal field with Karlton Terry, who was mentored by and taught with William Emerson, Ph.D. These two streams of healing work are alive as the core focus of Scott’s healing and teaching practice.

Scott served as a founding board member of the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America, and is a past Vice President of the American Polarity Therapy Association. He lives and teaches s in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

You can find out more about Scott at https://www.scottzamurut.com/

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Today's conversation is with Maria Cristina Jimenez OTR.

María Cristina, is an occupational therapist and a Certified Advanced Rolfer.  She has been a yoga teacher since 2001, a Rolfer® since 2012, and a Certified Advanced Rolfer® since 2016. In 2021 she became a registered and licensed OT, specializing in hand therapy. After surviving a horrific car accident and near-death experience at 15, she developed PTSD. Consequently, she's spent her entire life healing her body and helping to heal others. She brings decades of deep somatic studies as well as insights from living with PTSD. María Cristina holds a BA in Theatre and a minor in Women’s Studies from Holy Cross in Worcester. She holds an MFA from The New School in Manhattan. Her second Master's is in occupational therapy from USC. She's also a Fulbright Scholar who researched murder of women by men motivated by sexism in Costa Rica. Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, she resides in Los Angeles.

In today's conversation we speak all about Maria Cristina's life history that has brought her through to all the work which she now offers. A rich talk indeed.

You can find out more about her at www.mariacristinarolfer.com,  on Instagram at @mcyogirolfer and the link to subscribe to her newsletter is:

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Today's conversation is with Jane Harrington

Jane is a graduate from the first Rolf Movement training in 1979.  She is Rolf Institute emeritus faculty having taught both the movement certificate and Basic Rolf Trainings.

She graduated from the school of education at UNM, taught for a few years and moved to her passion - dance.  She received a masters in dance from Lone Mountain College in San Francisco which lead to her deepening understanding of  movement and movement analysis.  This was when the Rolf Institute  opened the movement training.  Jane had a practice doing rolf movement for almost ten years before being certified as a Rolfer.

For close to 35 years she taught for the Rolf institute , much of that time was in developing the expansion of the work with her teaching partner, VivianJaye.  

If you would like to connect with Jane her email is [email protected]

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Today's conversation is with Dr Martha Eddy

Martha is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, Teacher of Body-Mind Centering® and Certified Movement Analyst with a doctorate in Movement Science, who has served on the faculties at Empire State College - SUNY, Columbia, Princeton and New York University. She became the First Ferraro Fellow of Social Justice and Movement at Marymount Manhattan College in 2018.  She is also  the founding director of the non-profit organization Moving For Life, as well as the somatic movement therapy training Dynamic Embodiment and the Center for Kinesthetic Education. She co-founded Moving On Center with Carol Swann to bring somatics and social change in 1994

Martha is a passionate advocate for health through somatic awareness and active embodiment, with a lifelong commitment to the art of dance.

In today's conversation we spoke about Martha's rich and diverse history with the somatic arts, her chart mapping the history of the somatic field and it's history, principle based practices, and much more.

You can find out more about Dr Eddy at  DrMarthaEddy.com 

Please buy her amazing book Mindful Movement: The Evolution of the Somatic Arts and Conscious Action here https://amzn.to/3e3vIc1

There seemed to be some internet issue on my side, causing audio issues during my speaking moments. I am greatly sorry for this and have done my best to edit it up as much as possible.

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Today's conversation is with Scott Zamurut

Scott RCST® is a student, practitioner, and teacher of somatic and energetic healing arts with over 30 years in the field. Scott’s broad training background includes massage therapy, Polarity Therapy, private mentoring in structural integration, group leadership and dynamics, and ontological coaching. All of these studies support his primary focus in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST), and Pre and Perinatal education and healing.

As a student and teacher trainee in the first BCST training with Franklyn Sills in the US, Scott is among the longest tenured Biodynamics teachers in North America. He worked with Franklyn, and other senior British teachers for 12 years during his time as a student and teacher trainee.

He was also fortunate to work extensively in the Pre and Perinatal field with Karlton Terry, who was mentored by and taught with William Emerson, Ph.D. These two streams of healing work are alive as the core focus of Scott’s healing and teaching practice.

Scott served as a founding board member of the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America, and is a past Vice President of the American Polarity Therapy Association. He lives and teaches s in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

You can find out more about Scott at https://www.scottzamurut.com/

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Today's conversation is with Kevin Frank

Kevin is a Certified Advanced Rolfer(TM), Rolf Movement (R) Practitioner, and Rolf Movement Instructor for the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration. He has worked with the Hubert Godard-derived Tonic Function model since 1991 and has written on this topic from 1995 to the present. Kevin advocates for an ‘information system’ view of  structural integration, to help bring the SI field into congruence with modern understanding of motor control and perceptive/coordinative processes.

Kevin is the co-author (with Caryn McHose) of How Life Moves, Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness (North Atlantic 2006) https://amzn.to/3ddDZKd

Kevin became a Rolfer in 1987, drawn to the work having spent two decades in Zen practice and inquiry and then looking for a profession built around fostering awareness to the present moment. 

In today's conversation we spoke about Rolf Movement, the dichotomy of pure structural vs movement "Rolfing,"  Tonic Function theory, the movement brain, interdisciplinary holistic health, and a ton more.  Kevin is a thoughtful, intelligent, charismatic human being and he offers quite a lot to chew on here.  

You can find out more about Kevin at https://resourcesinmovement.com/

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Today's conversation is with Jim Asher

Jim Asher is an internationally recognized Rolf Institute® instructor and practitioner. He offers Advanced Rolfing, Rolf Movement Integration and cranial sacral therapy.

Jim has been a certified Rolfing Instructor since 1974. He trained with and assisted Dr. Ida Rolf. He studied spinal mechanics with many D.O.’s, including Philip Greenman.

The founder of the Colorado Cranial Institute and he is a member of the International Association of Structural Integrators. He continues to enjoy practicing in the city of Boulder, Colorado.

The sound quality did not come out as great as it was being in person, and while we do apologize for this, the quality of content that Jim shares is beyond priceless. There was also a street performer outside and you'll hear occasionally people cheering for him.

In doing the editing, I decided to keep much of the talk as it was. While some stories repeat and some are circuitous, they are real and as stated from Jim himself and it felt important to me to keep it this way. 

This is a longer than usual talk of ours and may be best enjoyed in sectional doses.

You can find out more about Jim at rolfingjimasher.wordpress.com

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