The Artistry of Bodywork
This occurred to me some time after I completed my first session of KMI: The way my practitioner looks at me brings to mind a sculptor studying a statue as it emerges from stone. Said Michelangelo, In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it. Or, more concisely, I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Humans are born in many ways perfectly equipped to reach our maximum potential throughout life. On my more optimistic days, I approach bodywork as a method of revealing the beauty which has been inhibited by years of misuse of the body, as muscles and tissue get stuck together, constricted, shortened.
I asked a friend of mine his main reason for wanting to get a series of structural integration. He said he wants to feel like he did in high school ten years ago. I like to think that’s possible.