“The growing interest in the field of Energy Medicine indicates a desire for an integral approach to healing, one where the physical body and the human energy field are recognized as aspects of each other, where energy and matter are experienced as one, where the energetic is not neglected in favor of the physical, or vice versa.

SourcePoint Therapy offers this integral approach. The primary assumption in this work is that there is an energetic template or blueprint of health for the human body that can be accessed to restore and maintain the health of that body and connect people to their natural state of order, harmony, balance and flow."
- Bob Schrei

Blueprint

The intention of SourcePoint Therapy is to re-connect the individual with the energetic blueprint of health, the matrix of healing energy containing the information of order, balance, harmony and flow that sustains all life. SourcePoint Therapy training gives practitioners a thorough grounding in the theoretical foundation of the approach, exploring the concept of the blueprint from the perspective of many healing, philosophical and spiritual traditions.

Scanning for Energy Blockages

The practitioner learns techniques of scanning the energy field to locate the energetic blockages that obstruct the flow of information of order and balance from the blueprint. These blockages can indicate the source of the presenting symptom complex. SourcePoint Therapy teaches specific points (the Diamond and Golden Rectangle Source Points as well as the Navel Point), off the physical body, located in geometric pattern around the body, that facilitate the connection to the blueprint and the removal of blockages.

Guardians of the Body

Another fundamental principle of SourcePoint Therapy is that the body has its own guardian energies, manifested in the physical body as the immune system, which, when activated, profoundly support the healing process. Specific points (the Guardian Points) on the physical body are taught which invoke these energies. In their study of the Guardians of the body, students of SourcePoint Therapy can also learn techniques for identifying and drawing out foreign energetic intrusions that may be affecting the health of the client.

Energetic Structures

In addition to the basic Source, Diamond and Golden Rectangle Points students learn many other techniques utilizing energetic structures corresponding to sacred geometric pattern to bring the body to a state of order, balance, harmony and flow.

Sacrum

The sacrum is also an area of focus in facilitating the flow of life force energy in the body, and techniques of working with the sacrum are taught.

Who Can Benefit

SourcePoint Therapy can be integrated with any form of manual therapy and is appropriate for use with massage, acupuncture, cranial-sacral therapy, healing touch, rolfing, and physical therapy, for example. Once the energetic blockages have been determined and the basic points in the energy field have been held and activated, the practitioner’s own modality can be used to release the blockages and facilitate the flow of information from the blueprint. The fundamental practices involve no physical touch and psychotherapists can also use these techniques.

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SourcePoint Therapy: An Energetic Approach to Structural Integration, by Robert Schrei, Ray McCall, Donna Thomson, 2010 (published in the International Association for Structural Integration Yearbook 2010)
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This article will be published in the International Association of Structural Integrators Yearbook 2010, which will be available in March 2010. The article accompanies a workshop to be given by Bob Schrei and Ray McCall at the Association’s Symposium 2010 May 7-9 in Denver, CO. For more information: http://www.theiasi.org/event.php

SourcePoint Therapy and Its Implications for Rolfing Structural Integration, By Soken Paul Graf, 2010
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Working with the Blueprint, by Donna Thomson (from Massage & Bodywork Magazine, September/October 2008)
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Guardians of the Body, by Donna Thomson, 2007
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Healing in Todays World, by Donna Thomson, 2006
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The Blueprint, by Donna Thomson, 2006
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TESTIMONIALS:

From Rolfer’s:

“SourcePoint has enhanced my Rolfing skills to a whole new level entirely. It is a HUGE piece that was missing for me these past couple of years. I have a much deeper understanding of Rolfing and work with ease now. I SEE so much better as well, possibly because the results are far more obvious and dramatic when working with SourcePoint. I now understand how we SHOULD be moving, not just the IDEA of movement I am trying to evoke. I loved traditional Rolfing but was becoming pretty frustrated with it. I didn’t feel I was making as big of an impact; the clients felt better but in comparison people now rave about my Rolfing work. I would say it’s doubled my clientele in just the past six months. I am not even sure how I got by those other two years now knowing what I know. I would never work any other way. It’s too big a difference and I would feel blind without it. SourcePoint has allowed me to evolve into the Rolfer I was hoping to be." - Kelly, Kansas City


Today another stunning day with Sourcepoint. I feel like it's allowing me to become more the Rolfer I aspire to be, to work from a place of considerably more depth and listening and allowing versus "doing", really being able to ease up on the reigns and allow the client's system to lead the way. The connection with the client is deeper and the conversation between us nearly effortless, which is more enjoyable for us both, not to mention more efficient and effective overall.. So, well, it's usefulness to me as a Rolfer is an absolute no-brainer. So many thanks for this work! - Jill, Chicago


Sourcepoint Therapy is really terrific, especially as an assessment tool. I find it extremely helpful for determining where to start, what to do next and knowing when I am done. Sourcepoint is also very effective at removing energetic blockages that inhibit structural changes; it is one of the most profound ways of providing a client with support that I’ve come across so far. I have also experienced that it helps the client to organize and integrate through all of the taxonomies we talk about as Rolfers, which makes for much better results and allows me to treat people more completely and at deeper levels. I think that it’s a tremendous addition to our field, and I look forward to seeing how it develops in the future." - Soken, Certified Rolfer


From Acupuncturists:

I highly recommend training in SourcePoint Therapy for acupuncturists.

Patients come to me for a variety of reasons. Some are experiencing profound energetic disorders that manifest as medical pathologies, some come for imbalances in energy such as an imbalance of yin causing hot flashes, some come for disharmonies such as wood invading earth and some come because their energies not flowing, for example headaches as a result of stagnation.

The techniques of SourcePoint Therapy have given me another powerful way to address these (and many more) issues with my patients. After the training, I was surprised at how easy it was to integrate into my acupuncture practice. I have found that, once the needles are in, I simply access and hold the Source Points off the body while gently mentioning to the patient that their energy is ordered, balanced, harmonized, and flowing. This further aligns me with my intent to bring healing to the patient and gives both my patients and me a genuine, overall feeling of wellness.

Because the vast majority -- 95%-- of my patients now are specifically asking for SourcePoint Therapy while the needles are in, I know that they do feel the positive effects. Since I have starting using SourcePoint Therapy, some of my patients have experienced significant shifts in energies and some are now asking to learn how they can access the Source Points themselves.

I have found that the philosophic underpinnings of SourcePoint Therapy are entirely in accord with what I learned about Chinese Medicine. This is that the prenatal chi (ancestral chi) is a combination of chi from the heavens and chi from the earth, (parents) that combines to make the unique individual. I have interpreted the universal blueprint of health that is accessed in SourcePoint Therapy as being present, operative and a necessary precursor to the generation of post-heavenly chi and the flow of chi in the body that we acupuncturists are trained to assess.

By employing SourcePoint Therapy within the hour or so of an acupuncture treatment, I am able to bring to my patients the potent combination of an embodied experience of calm and enhanced energetic flow together with the imagery that aligns the mind with the experience. This is very helpful in healing and helps my patients to carry the benefits forward between sessions.

Patients like it and so do I!
Nancy Ann Miller, Licensed Acupuncturist
M.Ac., L.Ac., Dipl.Ac.
http://www.milleracupuncture.com

Here are a few of the many books that have helped to shape our thinking and confirm our intuitions in relation to SourcePoint Therapy, the Blueprint, energy medicine, information/energy fields, healing and related topics.

The Biology of Belief, Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D, Mountain of Love/Elite Books, 2005

The Biophysics of Integration, James L.Oschman, Ph.D, IASI Yearbook, 2005

Blueprint for Immortality, Harold Saxton Burr,  CW Daniel, Saffron Walden, 1972

The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life, R.O. Becker and G. Selden, SUNY Press, Albany, 1985

Chartres: Sacred Geometry, Sacred Space, Gordon Strachan, Floris Books, 2003

Cranial-Sacral Therapy and the Energy Body, Roger Gilchrist, North Atlantic Books, 2006

Craniosacral Biodynamics Volume One: The Breath of Life, Biodynamics and Fundamental Skills, Franklyn Sills, North Atlantic Books, 2001

Craniosacral Biodynamics Volume Two: The Primal Midline and the Organization of the Body, Franklyn Sills, North Atlantic Books, 2004

Crystals, Fabrics and Fields: Mataphors that Shape Embryos, Donna Jean Hathaway, North Atlantic Books, 2004

The Divine Matrix, Gregg Braden, Hay House, 2007

Divine Proportions: Understanding PHI in Art, Nature and Science, Priya Hemenway, Sterling Publishing, 2005

Dreamtime and Inner Space: The Way of the Shaman, Holger Kalweit, Shanbhala, 1984

Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life, Richard Grossinger, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, 2003

Embryogenesis:From Cosmos to Creature: The Origins of Human Biology,  Richard Grossinger, North Atlantic Books, 1986

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo, Sean B. Carroll, W.W. Norton, 2005

Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance, James Oschman, Butterworth Heinemann, reprinted 2004, 2005

Energy Medicine, The Scientific Basis, James Oschman, Churchill Livingstone, 2000

Engaging the Movement of Life: Experiencing Health and Embodiment through Osteopathy and Continuum, Bonnie Gintis, D.O., North Atlantic Books, 2007

The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, Lynne McTaggart, HarperCollins, 2002

Healing from the Source: The Science and Lore of Tibetan Medicine, Dr. Yeshe Donden, Snow Lion Publications, 2000

The Heart of Listening: A Visionary Approach to Craniosacral Work, Hugh Milne, North Atlantic Books, 1995

The Integration of Human Structures, Ida Rolf, Harper and Row, 1971

The Intention Experiment, Lynne McTaggart, Free Press, 2007

Jung and Reich: The Body as Shadow, John P. Conger, North Atlantic Books, 1988, 2005

Matrix Energetics: A Hands-on Guide to Subtle Energy and Radical Change, Richard Bartlett, Atria Books 2007

Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine, Candace B. Pert, Ph.D, Scribner 1997

Mysteries of the Dream-Time, James Cowan, Prism Press, 1989

Orthotropism and the Unbinding of Morphic Potential, Jeff Maitland, Ph.D, Rolf Lines, 2001, Vol. 29, No. 1, Boulder CO

Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos, Anchor Books 2005.

The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped our World, Richard Tarnas, Ballantine Books, New York, 1991

Planet Medicine: Origins, Richard Grossinger, North Atlantic Books, 1995

Planet Medicine: Modalities, Richard Grossinger, North Atlantic Books, 1995.

Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists, edited by Ken Wilbur, New Science Library, Boston & London, 1984

The Holographic Universe, Michael Talbott, Harper Collins, 1991

The Rainbow and the Worm: The Physics of Organisms, Mae-Wan Ho, World Scientific, 1998

Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code, Stephen Skinner, Sterling Putlishing Company, 2006

Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice, Robert Lawlor, Thames and Hudson, 1982

Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything, Ervin Laszlo,  Inner Traditions, 2004

The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Ray Kurzweil, Viking 2005

The Spiritual Brain: A NeuroScientist's Case of the Existence of the Soul, Mario Beauregard, Ph. D and Denyse O'Leary, HarperOne, 2007.

Stillness: Biodynamic Cranial Practice and the Evolution of Consciousness, Charles Ridley, North Atlantic Books, 2006

The Stillness of Life: The Osteopathic Philosophy of Rollin E. Becker, D.O., edited by Rachel E. Brooks, MD, Stillness Press, 2000

Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief, Herbert Benson, MD, and Marg Stark, Scribner, 1996

The Trauma Spectrum, Robert Scaer, WW Norton, 2005

The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality,  The Dalai Lama, Boradway Books, 1995

The Vibrant Life: Simple Meditations to Use Your Energy Effectively, Donna Thomson, Sentient Publications 2006

The Web of Life, Fritjof Capra, Anchor Books, 1996

The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe's Way toward a Science of Conscious Participation, Henri Bortoft, Lindisfarne Press, Hudson NY 1996

Wisdom in the Body, Michael Kern, North Atlantic Books, 2005

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