Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Home
Sitting in the comfort of my new desk at the College, I'm pretty much over the tiredness of traveling and will be digesting all that I heard and saw in my trip (including bumping into Paris Hilton at LAX airport!) and relaying the main points to staff and students in due course. I have audio recordings of the sessions and lots of notes but see that NZCM will be running a replay of the Congress by DVD in the near future and that Unitec will do the same as part of the Australia and New Zealand Osteopathic Research Conference in December to be held at Unitec. So there are plenty of opportunities to get all the information if you're interested.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Boston
Wow! First time I've had a chance to get online since getting to Boston. It really has been a full schedule of events. 6am starts for registrations and 12-1am finally getting back from post conference dinners.
After a few days in New York, I headed back up to Boston to get settled into the hotel and meet Mark Finch, classmate from NZCM from the Panmure days, and have a chance for a catch up. I switched on the tv and every channel had coverage of the Red Soxs v LA Angels playoff for the east coast baseball series. I thought I'd go for a walk and check out the ground - Fenway Park - across the river. When i got to the bridge and saw 4 fighter planes fly in formation over the ground with afterburners firing i figured it was a big deal. (I just checked the result of the AB's vs France. Was pretty difficult to find anywhere to watch the game with the baseball on! I know the result however and like see a replay at some stage, what happened?!)
Not really being a big baseball fan i passed up the kind offer of the scalpers to buy a ticket for $75 and soaked up the atmosphere with the crowd outside the park.
I found the venue for the Fascia Research Congress and pre -registered and headed back to the hotel. Having not seen Mark for 18 months we didn't get the earlier of bedtimes from all the story swapping and generally catching up.
Up early for breakfast and then headed over to Harvard Medical School conference centre for a 8am start.
What an amazing venue, big crowd and great organisation. It was quite something. Tom Findley opened the conference by saying he'd been dreaming about have an event like this for 30 years. That got a rousing response.
First speaker was by Donald Ingber who, in 30 minutes covered 20 years of cellular mechanotransduction. Wow! He set the standard so high and the information was so great, that the continued applause that followed was justly deserved.
As is usual at these kinds of confernces, strict time limits apply, so on the podium is a small box with 3 'traffic' lights on it. Green for go, yellow goes on for 5 minutes to go and red flashes with 10 seconds to wind up before the crook comes out and you get hauled off!!
I'll write more later but food and sleep are what I need right now. I'm now at the end of the first day of the IASI symposium so my head is swimming with knowledge and new thoughts from the past 3 days so I'll post more entries once I've had a chance to reflect.
After a few days in New York, I headed back up to Boston to get settled into the hotel and meet Mark Finch, classmate from NZCM from the Panmure days, and have a chance for a catch up. I switched on the tv and every channel had coverage of the Red Soxs v LA Angels playoff for the east coast baseball series. I thought I'd go for a walk and check out the ground - Fenway Park - across the river. When i got to the bridge and saw 4 fighter planes fly in formation over the ground with afterburners firing i figured it was a big deal. (I just checked the result of the AB's vs France. Was pretty difficult to find anywhere to watch the game with the baseball on! I know the result however and like see a replay at some stage, what happened?!)
Not really being a big baseball fan i passed up the kind offer of the scalpers to buy a ticket for $75 and soaked up the atmosphere with the crowd outside the park.
I found the venue for the Fascia Research Congress and pre -registered and headed back to the hotel. Having not seen Mark for 18 months we didn't get the earlier of bedtimes from all the story swapping and generally catching up.
Up early for breakfast and then headed over to Harvard Medical School conference centre for a 8am start.
What an amazing venue, big crowd and great organisation. It was quite something. Tom Findley opened the conference by saying he'd been dreaming about have an event like this for 30 years. That got a rousing response.
First speaker was by Donald Ingber who, in 30 minutes covered 20 years of cellular mechanotransduction. Wow! He set the standard so high and the information was so great, that the continued applause that followed was justly deserved.
As is usual at these kinds of confernces, strict time limits apply, so on the podium is a small box with 3 'traffic' lights on it. Green for go, yellow goes on for 5 minutes to go and red flashes with 10 seconds to wind up before the crook comes out and you get hauled off!!
I'll write more later but food and sleep are what I need right now. I'm now at the end of the first day of the IASI symposium so my head is swimming with knowledge and new thoughts from the past 3 days so I'll post more entries once I've had a chance to reflect.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
IASI
So onto talking about the second conference that I am attending, the second International Association of Structural Intergrators (IASI) Symposium. This event follows on from the first symposium held in Seattle last year. The theme of this Symposium is "Moving Forward" and it seems that this conference marks a major step for the structural integrators as they launch a standardised exam for the profession and start to link in with fascia researchers by having the symposium right after the Fascia Research Congress.
I've had an introduction to one viewpoint in the SI world through Mark Finch who has brought Tom Myers 'Anatomy Trains' material to New Zealand in the past couple of years. Those of you who have have attended one of Mark's workshops will have some idea of what SI - or Rolfing - entails. I understand that students cover the Anatomy Trains model in Clinical Therapeutics too. I'll be rooming with Mark during both conferences so I'll be picking his brain a bit further and no doubt we'll have a few debates.
I'm looking forward to listeing to a number of the speakers and seeing the practical demonstrations that follow. In particular
Judith Aston (Aston Patterning) who was an early associate of Dr. Rolf, who created the original "Structural Patterning" movement work; Emilie Conrad (the creator of Continuum movement meditation; Joseph Heller (the leader and source of the Hellerwork school of SI, author of several books on SI and the body, and creator of movement work in the Hellerwork tradition; and Dr. Peter Schwind, Ph.D ( Rolfing® instructor, mentor for the "Munich-Group", and author of Fascial and Membrane Technique which is in the NZCM library - well actually I have it out at moment :-).
I'm also really looking forward to seeing the presentation by Gil Hedley (Anatomist), who produced the Integral Anatomy DVDs which are the library also. Well worth looking at for a bodywide viewpoint on msculoskeletal anatomy and the importance of acknowledging the fascia in oragning that system.
Well that's it for now. I have a another day and night in New York so I'm off to make the most of it before heading to Boston and getting all fascial.
I've had an introduction to one viewpoint in the SI world through Mark Finch who has brought Tom Myers 'Anatomy Trains' material to New Zealand in the past couple of years. Those of you who have have attended one of Mark's workshops will have some idea of what SI - or Rolfing - entails. I understand that students cover the Anatomy Trains model in Clinical Therapeutics too. I'll be rooming with Mark during both conferences so I'll be picking his brain a bit further and no doubt we'll have a few debates.
I'm looking forward to listeing to a number of the speakers and seeing the practical demonstrations that follow. In particular
Judith Aston (Aston Patterning) who was an early associate of Dr. Rolf, who created the original "Structural Patterning" movement work; Emilie Conrad (the creator of Continuum movement meditation; Joseph Heller (the leader and source of the Hellerwork school of SI, author of several books on SI and the body, and creator of movement work in the Hellerwork tradition; and Dr. Peter Schwind, Ph.D ( Rolfing® instructor, mentor for the "Munich-Group", and author of Fascial and Membrane Technique which is in the NZCM library - well actually I have it out at moment :-).
I'm also really looking forward to seeing the presentation by Gil Hedley (Anatomist), who produced the Integral Anatomy DVDs which are the library also. Well worth looking at for a bodywide viewpoint on msculoskeletal anatomy and the importance of acknowledging the fascia in oragning that system.
Well that's it for now. I have a another day and night in New York so I'm off to make the most of it before heading to Boston and getting all fascial.
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