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Fascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode 19: Season Finale sharing about Dr. Still, impacts of Vietnam War, fascia, dementia, cancer and gravity.Send us a textIn Episode 19, I am concluding Season 1 of Fascia and Bones: Unpacking the Mystery. Season 2 will start back in August of 2025. In this episode I will be sharing a range of information from Dr. Still, the impacts of the Vietnam War, fascia, dementia, cancer and gravity. The last few months of my personal life has involved moving my mom to independent care after her health changed dramatically after receiving the flu and covid booster in the end of January. Her system was not able to integrate the vaccines, and she fe...2025-05-1020 minFascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode 18: Interview with Jeffrey Burch, Rolfer and and author of Assessment and Treatment Methods for Manual Therapists: The Most Effective and Efficient Treatment Every TimeSend us a textWelcome back to Fascia and Bones: Unpacking the Mystery. Some things I love—fascia and bones with a detective mystery. I am practicing manual osteopath and structural integrator and love working with the connective tissue of the body and the holistic systems of the body. I am also a long-time educator in the field of bodywork and movement. My hope is to share some insights in the fields I practice.In Episode 18, I am interviewing Jeffrey Burch, Rolfer and author of Assessment and Treatment Methods for Manual Therapists: The Most Effective and...2025-04-041h 04Fascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode 17: Interview Dr. Rebecca Pratt, Anatomy Professor on what is fascia, embryology, neural crest cells and more.Send us a textIn Episode 17, I am interviewing Dr. Rebecca Pratt, professor of anatomy located in Rochester, Michigan and president of the Fascia Research Society. Dr. Pratt is a gross anatomist who has been training medical students and has worked training American osteopaths over the last 23 years. Dr. Pratt is also editor of the Journal of Bodywork and Movement by Elsevier, which is a pivotal journal for research in the fields of fascia and manual therapies. She is about to make some big changes in her career pathway, which I am excited about, and we discuss...2025-03-2759 minFascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode 16: Valentines Day, Red Women Moon Cycles and The ClickSend us a textWelcome back to Episode 16, where I will be discussing Valentines Day, Red Women Moon Cycles and The Click.Today is Valentines Day, which seems to represent love, relationship and more in current culture. It was originally a fertility festival in honor of St. Valentine. We just went through the Leo full moon that carried a powerful energy force as it rose above the Sangre De Cristos here in Taos, New Mexico. I remember when I was younger that the full moon had much more charge on my soma, and I would...2025-02-1814 minFascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode 15: With Cole Cottin, Structural Integrator (Hellerworker) and moreSend us a textWelcome back to Fascia and Bones: Unpacking the Mystery. Some things I love—fascia and bones with a detective mystery. I am practicing manual osteopath and structural integrator and love working with the connective tissue of the body and the holistic systems of the body. I am also a long-time educator in the field of bodywork and movement. My hope is to share some insights in the fields I practice. Today I have the honor of interviewing Cole Cottin (they/she), Structural Integrator trained Hellerwork, teacher of SI, craniosacral and somatic prac...2025-02-131h 00Fascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode 14: Bones, Hormones and BloodSend us a textIn Episode 14, I am discussing some of the ideas around bones, hormones and blood! I finally have arrived to talking about bones. As a manual osteopath, I have been trained to work with bones through a variety of techniques. The term “osteopathy” was coined by its founder Dr. Andrew Taylor Still. The root of “osteon” is bone from Greek. Also from Greek, “Pathos” is the root for “suffering”. Learning to treat bones flipped my manual therapy work literally inside out. It was the most freeing experience to seemingly graduate from tissues to treating bones—this does...2025-01-2323 minFascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode13: I am discussing some of the ideas around somatic touch and supporting PTSD/CPSTD in clients.Send us a textIn Episode 13, I am discussing some of the ideas around somatic touch and supporting PTSD/CPSTD in clients. On January 7, 2025, at 11 am Mountain time, I will be presenting the results of my research in The Efficacy of Somatic Touch in Female Bodied with PTSD/CPTSD. You can join the Fascial Research Society and the webinar at https://www.fasciaresearchsociety.org/frs_webinar_series_womens_fa.php. My curiosity was around unpacking whether or not fascial oriented therapies such as osteopathic manual therapy (OMT), structural integration (SI), and other types o...2024-12-2322 minFascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode 12: Interview with Amy Bennett, BCSI ATSI LMT Faculty and CoachSend us a textIn Episode 12, I am interviewing Amy Bennett, BCSI discovering how she came to Structural Integration. Discussions around Anatomy Trains, IDA-SI and diving into somatic liberation, racial justice, the experience of othering. We also talk about assessment, power differential and how we may open up to more discussions within the field of SI. Amy is a Faculty in the UNM-Taos program https://taos.unm.edu/stin and she is part of the group who founded and is teaching in SI program in Portland, Oregon--Inner Dynamics Academy of Structural Integration. We had a c...2024-12-171h 05Fascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode 11: I will be diving into somatic liberation, racial justice, and the experience of other.Send us a textIn Episode 11, I will be diving into somatic liberation, racial justice, the experience of othering and more in preparation for my interview with Amy Bennett, BCSI ATSI LMT and coach in my next episode. To build on others work in the field of Structural Integration in unpacking somatic liberation, justice work and the history of racism in a Eurocentric ideology with the field of somatics and SI. 2024-12-1424 minFascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode 10: Follow up on discussion of traumas associated with pelvis, birth work, psilocybin, amygdala and flashbacks.Send us a textIn Episode 10, I will be following up on pelvis, discussing traumas associated with the pelvis as well as integrative birth work, psilocybin, amygdala and flashbacks. I was inspired by my interview of Denise Foster Scott on her work around reclaiming the pelvis and the subject is important to continue to hold a deep inquiry and processing 2024-12-0324 minFascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode 9: Interview with Denise Foster Scott on Reclaiming the Pelvis and Inner Dynamics Academy of SISend us a textIn Episode 9, I am interviewing Denise Foster Scott, Board Certified Structural Integrator and Instructor within the field. She has been an advocate within the field volunteering with IASI and developed a vital curriculum on supporting the pelvis and associated experiences around integrating trauma experiences associated with the pelvis. Denise’s course is external pelvic floor manual therapy and she will be teaching around the country in 2025. You can find out more at somavitality.com. If you are interested in joining the class next September 20-20. 2-25 here in Taos go to https://www.drk...2024-11-2158 minFascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode 8: Trauma, collective trauma, intergenerational and epigenetics.Send us a textIn Episode 8, I will be discussing ideas around trauma, collective trauma, intergenerational and epigenetics. I was driving home yesterday, the day after the presidential election in 2024, through the canyon along the Rio Grande Gorge. There was a dusting of snow on the cliffs on the right, with mist and sprinkles of snow. The river looked full of water lined with golden cotton woods with sprinkled with snow. I imagined I was in the Scottish Highlands, the place my ancestors are from, it all feels so familiar to my soma, a deep k...2024-11-1219 minFascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryIn Episode 7: Fascia and Bones we will be discussing concepts around embodiment of pelvis, the anatomy, root chakra, and a sense of belonging.Send us a textIn Episode 7, I will be discussing concepts around embodiment of pelvis, the anatomy, root chakra, and a sense of belonging.What does it mean to be rooted? Is it belonging to place with connection to earth and sky? Or is there a sense of inhabiting one’s roots or seat of your soul in your pelvis and sacrum? I would say that these are concepts and ideas I have explored for many years and later this month I am interviewing Denise Foster Scott, Soma Practitioner, Educator and BCSI. She will be sh...2024-11-0520 minFascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode 6: Fasica and Bones Yin Energy & Embryology and more with Carol AgneesensSend us a textIn Episode 6, I will be discussing ideas around yin energy in the field of structural integration, embryology, craniosacral, energy work and how we meet our clients in the field with Carol Agneesens. Carol began her career in education in special education. She had heard of Rolfing in high school and didn’t directly come across until she was working in the North West. After receiving her first 10 series, she enrolled at the “Mystery School of Structural Integration” in Boulder and trained as a Rolfer. She then went on to become a lead instructor and Ro...2024-10-241h 08Fascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode 5: Flow States, the importance of Rest as a practitioner, perceptual field and more with Suzanne PicardSend us a textIn Episode 5, I will be discussing ideas around Flow States, the importance of Rest as a practitioner, perceptual field and more with Suzanne Picard. Suzanne trained as a Rolfer in the field of structural integration. She came to Rolfing from a background in sculpture and visual arts with in MFA and taught in field. She was living in Boulder when she was exposed to Structural Integration for the first time and participated as a model in the classroom. She enrolled to train right at the get go. Suzanne became a practitioner, a lead i...2024-10-241h 13Fascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode 4: Empathy, Rest & ResistanceSend us a textPart 1In Episode 4, I will be discussing ideas around Empathy, Rest and Resistance. In July of 2024, Suzanne Picard and I co-taught and create a class in Living in Health, Cultivating Parasympathetic and Rest. I will be interviewing Suzanne, who is a Rolf Movement educator and practitioner of Structural Integration under the trademark known as a “Rolfer”. Some of the inspirations for this course came from the Nap Ministry’s founder Tricia Hersey. Tricia’s book is described as, “rooted in spiritual energy and centered in Black liberation, womanism, somatics, and Afrofuturism. With capti...2024-10-1712 minFascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode 3: Autumn Hunters Moon,Trauma and the Periaqueductal Gray Matter not the Vagus NerveSend us a textPart 1The nights are drawing in earlier here in the mountains and the moon is shining brighter as we come on to the upcoming Hunter’s Moon. We were sleeping outside over 9,000 feet amongst the spruce, pine and golden orange red aspen trees. There is something about being in the mountains that is in my blood and bones. There was a femur bone in our camp site, maybe an elk. The next day we road our mountain bikes and stumbled on many tibia bones, most likely cow and found a juvenile ma...2024-10-1516 minFascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode 2: What is fascia & a look at current researchSend us a textWelcome back to Fascia and Bones: Unpacking the Mystery. Some things I love—fascia and bones with a detective mystery. I am practicing manual osteopath and structural integrator and love working with the connective tissue of the body and the holistic systems of the body. I am also a long-time educator in the field of bodywork and movement. My hope is to share some insights in the fields I practice.Part 1In Episode 2, I am taking a look at some recent research to helps us unpack how we may sup...2024-10-1025 min
Fascia & Bones: Unpacking the MysteryEpisode OneSend us a textIn this first part, I am introducing the content and series as it is related to fascia and bones in the fields of manual osteopathy, structural integration and movement therapy. In the new podcast I will begin with interviewing folks starting with the field of Structural Integration (SI). I want to unveil some sticky points in our field and take an honest look at some bias that has happened due to how the lineage was set up by Dr. Ida Rolf. In the future, I hope to interview a broader range o...2024-10-0716 min
Touching Into PresenceEpisode 55 - Conversations with Dr. Kirstie SegarraToday's conversation is with Dr. Kirstie Segarra.
Kirstie Segarra, PhD BCSI RMTI E-RYT C-IAYT is a Doctor of Integrative Medicine and Structural Integrator in Taos, New Mexico. She has been practicing in the healing arts since 1996. She began her inquiry to study of the integration of the arts and spiritual practice in her Master’s degree in Whole System Design focusing on second order biological systems at Antioch University-Seattle in the mid 90’s. In affect, how to create change in biological systems. She studied a traditional form of bodywork in Bali then went on to get her mass...2022-08-2258 min