Integral Anatomy Intensive (6 HR/CE)

How to Take This Course (text)

• PDF: Course Quiz to use as a study guide

Video 1:  Intros and Models (27:16)

• 0:01 Opening Poem by Gil Hedley
• 2:33 Acknowledgement of and gratitude for donors and their families
• 3:52 Balance as not requiring symmetry
• 5:12 Components of Integral Anatomy
• 5:58 Textures as primary to terms
• 7:25 Continuity of layers
• 7:58 Relationship between textures and layers
• 8:25 Ultimately looking at the whole person
• 9:46 Models
• 10:47 Simple and sophisticated models
• 11:58 Physical models of the body
• 13:07 Conceptual models of the body
• 13:44 Body as machine
• 14:57 Body as mule
• 15:54 Body as temple
• 16:40 Body as source of intelligence and wisdom
• 18:25 Onion-tree model
• 20:20 Importance of deconstructing models
• 21:08 What is a model and how does it serve?
• 21:42 Rules of thumb for using models
• 23:41 Embalming as the art of turning dead bodies into models
• 25:31 Entering the “lab”

Video 2: The Skin Layer (19:09))

• 0:00 Surface presentation of the skin
• 0:48 Skin as an organ
• 2:24 Creating the skin with a scalpel 
• 4:37 Ephemeral nature of skin
• 7:12 Which layer is giving shape to any given form?
• 8:17 Whole body skin layer ex situ, unfixed
• 9:03 Whole body skin layer ex situ, fixed
• 9:30 Relationship of the skin to light
• 10:38 Expanding the concept of the body as not boundaried by our skin
• 14:10 Skin as taboo
• 16:02 What is your relationship with your skin?

 Video 3: The Superficial Fascia Layer (19:09)

• 0:48 Changeability of superficial fascia
• 5:34 Superficial fascia in a fixed form
• 7:11 Adipose deposition within superficial fascia
• 8:54 Absence of adipose in the genitals
• 9:29 Creating the layer of superficial fascia
• 9:54 Relationship of the superficial fascia with the deep fascia
• 10:17 Filmy fascia
• 10:51 Filmy fascia as allowing and limiting differential movement
• 14:37 Other terminology for the filmy fascia or “fuzz”
• 15:36 Varying relationship between superficial fascia and deep fascia in different parts of the body
• 16:13 Filmy fascia as anatomy and not pathology
• 19:17 Differential movement between the deeper layers
• 19:48 Backlit superficial fascia
• 20:12 Superficial fascia in fixed female form
• 20:52 Viscera as the shaping layer
• 21:29 Superficial fascia ex situ next to deep fascia in situ
• 21:26 Functions of superficial fascia as an organ
• 22:25 Superficial fascia as lymphoid organ
• 23:01 Superficial fascia as organ of sensuality
• 23:40 Superficial fascia as endocrinal and metabolic organ
• 24:08 Problematization of superficial fascia in our culture
• 26:15 Dissecting the superficial fascia layer of a female unfixed form
• 28:48 Unfixed superficial fascia ex situ
• 29:45 Historical relationships with superficial fascia
• 33:19 Maturing in our relationship with our body and superficial fascia
• 35:20 The inculcation of disgust for superficial fascia by the medical community 
• 37:01 Rehabilitating our relationship to fat
• 38:32 Brief, bullet-point review of superficial fascia

 Video 4: The Deep Fascia Layer (37:12)

• 0:00 Opening poem by Gil Hedley
• 2:36 Not all fat is superficial fascia
• 3:07 Absence of adipose in deep fascia
• 3:44 Deep fascia in a male, fixed form
• 5:24 Examples of multiple, regular, predictable fiber directions in the deep fascia
• 7:09 Body as liquid, evidence of fluid movement in tissue 
• 7:04 Deep fascia in a female, unfixed form
• 8:57 Bringing our metaphors to the dissection table
• 11:34 
• 12:50 Reflecting the deep fascia to reveal fuzz/filmy fascia
• 13:54 Following textures through the body
• 15:03 Fascia as alive, not inert
• 15:50 What’s the function of deep fascia?
• 16:41 Continuity of deep fascia with the muscle layer
• 17:45 Deep side of fascia lata
• 18:40 Creating the bag, or fascial plane of deep fascia 
• 19:11 Tensional, mechanical forces transferred through the filmy fascia
• 20:41 Muscle fibers rooting into the deep fascia 
• 21:26 The will as the most important part of our anatomy
• 22:23 Revisiting the deep fascia in a female, unfixed form
• 23:46 Deep fascia in a male, unfixed form
• 24:14 Differentiation of superficial fascia from deep fascia
• 24:19 How filmy fascia presents in unfixed tissue
• 26:05 Difficulty in following deep fascia in unfixed tissue
• 27:14 Fixed/fibrous relationship between deep fascia and muscle in the gluteals
• 27:53 Deep fascia on chest removed to reveal muscle layer on male, fixed form
• 28:45 Deep fascia on chest of male, unfixed form
• 30:50 Deep fascia of lower extremities on female, unfixed form
• 31:24 Vasculature of the deep fascia
• 33:13 How to touch the deep fascia to invite receptiveness
• 34:32 Brief, bullet-point review of deep fascia
• 34:34 Contractility of superficial fascia and deep fascia

 Video 5: The Muscle Layer (41:01)

• 0:04 When the muscle layer is the shaping layer of a form
• 1:18 Gil’s intentional “growing” (and losing) of his superficial fascia
• 4:19 Historical relationships with the muscle layer
• 11:20 Muscle layer of male, fixed form
• 11:44 Abstracting different tissues when we don’t look at them in relationship with one another
• 13:43 The gluteals as defined by the superficial fascia
• 14:55 The gluteal muscles with superficial fascia removed
• 17:13 Fast contractility of muscle
• 17:42 Expression of personality through muscle
• 17:54 Slow, sustained contractility of deep fascia
• 18:29 Deep fascia creating a septum, diving into the muscle layer
• 19:03 Filmy fascia between muscle segments
• 23:30 Age as a function of use, not years
• 25:14 Differential movement as a result of filmy fascia in the lower extremities of an unfixed form
• 27:09 Individuating named muscles within the muscle layer
• 29:29 Variability as the norm in the muscle layer
• 32:47 Scoliosis of spine demonstrating changeability of bone over time
• 34:20 Abdominal artery ex situ reflecting scoliosis of the spine
• 35:04 Nomenclature as determinate of how we view the body
• 37:11 Appreciation of beauty in the overlooked or ordinary
• 39:10 Obturator internus tendon

Video 6: The Visceral Layer (1:11:28)

• 00:30 Opening poem by Gil Hedley
• 2:22 Acknowledgements
• 4:00 Definition of viscera
• 5:43 Membranous layers surrounding the visceral spaces
• 8:35 Wholeness of viscera as a “layer”
• 10:46 Gaining/losing weight in the viscera
• 11:17 Viscera as operating under the principle of levity, not gravity
• 14:18 Our ability to exert control over our viscera
• 16:25 Reflecting the diaphragm from the peritoneum
• 18:18 Abdominal viscera
• 18:40 Greater omentum
• 22:02 Small intestines
• 22:25 Adhesions as result of pathology and surgery
• 24:15 Bouquet of the small intestine and root of the mesentery
• 25:03 The intelligence of the enteric nervous system
• 27:10 Reflections of the intestines in nature, the brain, the ovary
• 28:31 Stomach
• 29:29 Colon
• 31:44 Gallbladder and cecum as having similar functions
• 33:09 Myth of impacted fecal matter as typical
• 35:37 Appendix
• 35:51 Variations of location of viscera
• 36:39 Diaphragm, covered in membranes
• 38:57 As related with the liver
• 41:45 Muscle fiber direction of stomach
• 42:12 Vagus nerve listens to the gut, it doesn’t control it
• 42:56 Spleen 
• 43:10 Example of megalosplenia
• 44:31 Eviscerated digestive system and lungs
• 46:21 Pancreas and duodenum
• 46:54 Pancreatic duct
• 47:17 Ligament of Treitz
• 48:57 Sphincter of Oddi
• 49:30 Pyloric valve
• 50:32 “Sphincter bouquet” cardiac sphincter, pyloric sphincter, sphincter of oddi, ileocecal valve, anus
• 51:28 Dissection of kidney through the peritoneal and subserosal fascia
• 53:10 Adrenal gland as a potent communicator with our fat
• 57:38 Kidneys with aorta and vena cava
• 57:58 Reflecting the greater omentum and intestines to reveal the uterus, uterine tube, fimbriae and ovaries
• 59:14 Closer view of ovary, fimbriae, and uterine tube
• 59:43 Ovary on psoas
• 1:00:43 Os of uterine tube
• 1:02:42 Eviscerated female reproductive organs
• 1:05:21 Vaginal canal
• 1:06:49 Inguinal ring and spermatic cord
• 1:07:50 Eviscerated male reproductive organs
• 1:08:55 Cross section of testicle
• 1:09:54 Rabbit dissection
• 1:10:10 Mesentery and small intestine of rabbit
• 1:10:45 Uterus of rabbit

Video 7: The Nerve Tree and the Whole Heart (1:07:40)

• 00:00 Opening poem by Gil Hedley
• 2:42 Trees in the body
• 2:49 Nerve Tree
• 3:36 Nerves branches in the arm 
• 4:23 Palpating the radial nerve, ulnar nerve, and median nerve
• 6:02 Radial nerve in dissection
• 6:51 Tension in the nerve tree
• 8:41 Movement as something different than a hierarchical function of the neocortex
• 10:21 Clavicle and the brachial plexus
• 11:14 Skeletal tree and nerve tree
• 12:00 Membranous layers surrounding the brain
• 12:36 Dura and sinuses
• 13:32 Arachnoid
• 14:51 Pia
• 15:34 Arachnoid trabeculae
• 20:29 Brain and spinal cord ex situ, dura intact
• 22:11 Asymmetry of the body reflected in the brain
• 23:07 Brain ex situ
• 24:00 Pineal gland, olfactory tracts and bulbs, optic chiasma
• 25:20 Cerebellum in situ
• 26:03 Accessory nerve, hypoglossal nerve
• 26:32 Brain with evidence of strokes
• 27:46 Spinal cord exposed and in situ, dura removed at cauda equina
• 28:02 Effect of flexion and extension on the dura of the spinal cord
• 29:40 Vasculature in the dura of the spinal cord
• 29:57 Cauda equina, conus medullaris, filum terminale
• 32:48 Brain, spinal cord, and nerves ex situ
• 35:28 Braiding of vermis of cerebellum
• 35:51 Cross section of cerebellum
• 36:09 Function of cerebellum
• 37:31 Lung Tree
• 37:48 Bronchial tree
• 39:19 The body as part of the natural world
• 40:24 The longer we look, the more we see
• 42:04 Inflation of lungs, ribcage removed
• 43:18 Displacement of liver from inflation of lungs
• 44:53 Heart Tree
• 44:56 Ulnar artery in palm
• 45:22 Gil’s experience as a Rolfer seeing the pulse reverberating through the body
• 46:28 Evidence of cardiac bypass surgery in cadaver
• 48:00 Function of the heart
• 49:31 Spiraling/braiding nature of the heart chamber and major vessels
• 50:11 Gil’s “Heart Dance”
• 50:27 The structure of the heart as representing the movement of the blood
• 52:26 Hypertension, resistance to the movement of life in our body, and the progression of heart disease
• 58:11 The heart as the place where the blood refreshes its movement
• 58:28 The shape of the vasculature draws the blood through the body
• 1:00:20 The heart tree ex situ
• 1:01:32 Dissection of the heart center in unfixed form
• 1:04:04 Heart-lung machine
• 1:04:19 Calcification from a femoral artery
• 1:05:05 Example of megalocardia
• 1:05:29 Heart connections and closing