Kinesis Myofascial Integration
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Kinesis Myofascial Integration is a form of Structural Integration (a form of alternative medicine). Known as KMI for short, it is a multi-session protocol of 3 or 12 sessions. It involved sensitively-applied deep tissue manipulation combined with movement education.
KMI Structural Integration is designed to restore structural balance, ease of movement, and a feeling of ‘fitting in your own skin’.
History
KMI is an evolution of the fascial work of Dr. Ida P. Rolf, the movement insights of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, the whole-systems geometry of Buckminster Fuller, and many other influences, directed by Thomas Myers.
Mr Myers studied with Ida Rolf between 1975 and her death in 1978, and has practiced Rolfing and been a member of the Rolf Institute since 1976, practicing in more than 10 countries and 16 cities over 30 years in a variety of clinical settings. An abiding interest in anatomy (fostered by Dr Louis Schultz of The Endless Web) led him to study and then teach fascial anatomy.
Searching for a way to teach 'connected anatomy', in the early 90's Mr Myers developed a game of connecting up the muscles in linked series - like the cars on a train - that he called Anatomy Trains. In 1998, Mr Myers had the insight that Ida Rolf's original Structural Integration 'recipe' could be reconfigured in terms of these Anatomy Trains 'lines'. Unable to explore such a radical departure from orthodoxy within the Rolf Institute, Mr Myers started KMI, which continues to explore Structural Integration from the point of view of myofascial continuities.
KMI trains manual therapists in the art and science of Structural Integration in a 500+-hr training that takes place in six sessions over a year's time in various locales around the US and Europe.
KMI has about 200 graduate practitioners as of the end of 2008.
References
- Myers, T 2009 Anatomy Trains, 2nd ed. Churchill Livingstone / Elsevier, Edinburgh
- Sultan, J. 1986, Toward a Structural Logic – the internal-external model Notes on Structural Integration 86:12-18
- Schleip, R., 1992, Talking to Fascia, Changing the Brain, Rolf Institute, Boulder CO
- Schultz L. & Feitis R., 1996, The Endless Web, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley
- Rywerant, Y, 1983, The Feldenkrais Method, Harper & Row, Publishers, San Francisco
- Pert, C. 1997, Molecules of Emotion, Scribner, New York
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