Structure, Function, and Information Transfer: Chinese Medicine through the Eyes of Stuctural Integration

Author’s Note: What I’m about to present to you is my honest, educated opinion, informed by years of study and clinical practice. I am not an academic researcher, nor an accomplished master. Still, the ideas presented below have deepened and broadened my practice so profoundly, that I feel I would be remiss in not sharing and offering them for consideration to my peers. Also, what better forum to present these ideas than Chinese Medicine Central? I welcome constructive discussion on this topic though the comments thread for this entry, or at my email address [e-mail]. I hope you find it thought-provoking.
In parallel with my abiding love of acupuncture, I’ve always had a more-or-less secret passion for bodywork. However, my only formal training in this area while I was in Chinese Medicine school ruined massage for me by both making it unpalatable as a practice skill and useless as a therapeutic tool. To boot, in my home country of Mexico, the scope of practice for massage is severely limited, both culturally (the “happy ending”) and legally, so after graduation I never advertised any of my incipient manual skills as part of my work.
Two years ago the opportunity presented itself for me to learn Structural Integration (SI).
Also called Rolfing, SI is a kind of bodywork, developed and taught by Ida P. Rolf. Its purpose is to create balance, stability, and continuity of form and function amongst the different segments of th...

Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - February 12, 2014 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Cintain 昆游龍 Tags: Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities anatomy trains connective tissue jingmai meridians Structural Integration Source Type: blogs