Island Soma Therapy

Island Soma Therapy Island Soma Therapy is a holistic center for bodywork, education and healing.

Friends, This will be Island Soma's final post, to reflect some recent business changes. The page will remain up as as r...
07/28/2024

Friends,
This will be Island Soma's final post, to reflect some recent business changes. The page will remain up as as reference for the time being. It's been a pleasure interacting and sharing here since 2012. There are so many wonderful memories.

Please join me as we say farewell to Island Soma Therapy, Hilton Head, SC (2003-2023).

After serving the Lowcountry as a wellness center for therapeutic bodywork, education, and holistic healing for two decades, I'm taking a sabbatical in order to pursue other work-related interests.

My permanent, full-time status is shifting, but I can still be reached via
https://www.islandsomatherapy.com

- Jeannie Kelley

The international website for Sharon Wheeler's work is currently the best place to view the worldwide schedule and keep ...
07/24/2024

The international website for Sharon Wheeler's work is currently the best place to view the worldwide schedule and keep up with the growing network of teachers around the globe.

Certified Teachers Find your local Teacher Trained by Sharon and with extensive experience, our teachers offer training local to you. Germany Andrea Clusen Berlin & Munich ScarWork, BoneWork, Cranium, TailEnd Christine Ernst Bensheim ScarWork Isolde Specka Hauenstein ScarWork Uli Straub Bietigheim-B...

Part 3 with Andrea Clusen tomorrow! It's been a wonderful collaboration on behalf of Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork.
04/03/2023

Part 3 with Andrea Clusen tomorrow! It's been a wonderful collaboration on behalf of Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork.

ScarWork III - A Demonstration of a Textural Art Form
Live Masterclass with Andrea Clusen (DE)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023 at 19h UK time

Join us as we learn about the working principles for Integrating Scar Tissue into the Fascial Web.
Andrea Clusen will guide you through a ScarWork session ‘in action’ highlighting a few of the fundamental techniques.
Whether new or old, most types of scars seem to respond with rapid healing and further improvement after the session work.

Register here: https://ehealthliving.org/portfolio-2/scarwork-3/

Celebrating having connected with a webinar platform to showcase Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork as a three part series with m...
03/03/2023

Celebrating having connected with a webinar platform to showcase Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork as a three part series with my friend and colleague Andrea Clusen. (Part one, an orientation, here: https://ehealthliving.org/portfolio-2/scarwork)

ScarWork II - Understanding Our Method of Resolving Scars
with Andrea Clusen (DE) and Jeannie Kelley (USA)

Free Talk 9 March 2023 at 19h UK time

Creating scar tissue is our body's way of mending trauma. However, these adhesions often leave us compromised with tension, restriction, and disorganization. Sharon Wheeler jokes about this being a "design flaw" because such compensations often lead to future complications. But, what if... we could "erase" the scarring, and integrate the tissue back into the fascial web?

In this second session about Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork approach, we will look at it through the lens of biotensegrity and examine how scars can influence areas both locally and body-wide. We will also shed light on the effects of some common surgical procedures, and start to imagine new possibilities for post-operative surgical outcomes.

As we come to understand ScarWork as a form of Structural Integration, we can begin to turn towards permanent solutions. Sharon Wheeler calls this "reverse engineering".

Sign up here: https://ehealthliving.org/portfolio-2/scarwork-2/

Happy Holidays from Island Soma. While you're staying warm this weekend, please enjoy this award-winning documentary by ...
12/24/2022

Happy Holidays from Island Soma. While you're staying warm this weekend, please enjoy this award-winning documentary by the folks at European Guild for Structural Integration about Dr. Ida Rolf's work and the training of practitiors. (Details in the comment thread).

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/structuralintegration

This is subtitled in 7 languages. To enable them click on the 'CC' button in the bottom right hand corner of the vimeo player.

A Very Important News Flash: "ScarWork meets Occupational Therapy"Two Large Planetary worlds just Collided in South Caro...
08/07/2022

A Very Important News Flash:
"ScarWork meets Occupational Therapy"

Two Large Planetary worlds just Collided in South Carolina's low country, and I'm Starstruck.

This has been YEARS in the making, and is now one small step for Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork, one Giant Leap for interfacing with the medical model...

https://www.wellness-rising.com
https://completepelvichealth.com

08/04/2022

This day, 9 years ago, Petra was nearing her departure. She still regularly appears in dreamtime for myself and others. She's within me, always.

It needs to be spoken now: Among other things, so many other things, this is Soul Work. It should be enough to say that ...
07/22/2022

It needs to be spoken now:
Among other things, so many other things, this is Soul Work.

It should be enough to say that ScarWork is light years ahead of its time. (As the intuitive Romy Wyser once said to me, "it's almost like this is an entirely new healing modality, like a star has been named, or a new planet has been found".)

It should be enough to say that this work will help countless individuals and make enormous contributions to science and research in a multitude of cutting-edge ways, not to mention it is paving the way for a complete and radical shift around the effectiveness of light touch in a world where "no pain, no gain" is still the dominant paradigm.

It should be enough. And it is, because it's more than enough as it is.

It's just that, this isn't all that it is...

Teaching ScarWork continues to blow my mind. I witness how the work repeatedly creates cracks in the collective in all sorts of ways, letting the light in, weaving us back, one by one, group by group - clients, students, practitioners - through the threads of our own broken existence, once again back into wholeness.

This work, by its own nature, which includes *the style and WAY Sharon Wheeler teaches* heals the damages done by our educational systems and gives absolute permission for women to be "Witches" (and men to be "Wizards") again.

I started to recognize this more clearly in the last few years, as more and more started to come out of the woodwork, out of the depths, out of hiding, out from shame and fear and self-condemnation. And now that I look back, I see it was there all along:

This work gently summons the genius, on-the-fringe, outside-the-box, nearly self-abandoned and self-protected individuals back from the marginalized, outcasted, glass ceiling regions... back to themselves again...
..and into the collective whole.

Our world so desperately needs this - everything about this - right now.

https://wheelerfascialwork.com
(Image credits: Suzanne Tornquist, Rashad Alakbarov)

07/13/2022

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