[Adta] ISMETA

[Barbara Nordstrom-Loeb]

To add my two cents to the ISMETA/RMT conversation, since I teach  
both DMT classes and Body Therapies/Somatics courses at the U of MN,  
my understanding is that RMT and the ISMETA organization is the  
umbrella organization for people who have Body Therapy/Somatics  
training (this includes approaches like Feldenkrais, Alexander, BMC,  
Bartenieff Fundamentals, etc etc.). Body Therapies tend to  
holistically focus on body patterns and how they reflect and impact  
all the other parts of who we are (feelings, psychology, spirit etc.  
--depending on which approach you are referring to).  Most Body  
Therapists DO NOT have the psychology, group and pyschopathology  
training that DMT's are required to take. This is changing, so a  
degree in Somatic Psychology includes both a body-based approach and  
psychology.
Where RMTs differ from DMT's is that our training focuses on both  
movement and body patterns and we also are required to take psych  
courses.  My experience in MN is that sometimes Body Therapies are  
slightly more accessible (although something like BMC is nowhere near  
main stream yet..although Shamanism, TCM and Aurvedic are- go  
figure???) I sometimes think that the concreteness of working with  
the body is more easily grasped by folks who dont work with  
embodiment than movement patterns. (Some how the mix of feelings and  
movement can be an edgy place for many folks.)

There is more I could say but hopefully this will help. Barbara
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Barbara Nordstrom-Loeb MFA CMA ADTR Certificate in Process Work
4632 York Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55410
Phone: 612-925-5277
e-mail: loebx001 at umn.edu

Only the walker who sets out toward ultimate things is a pilgrim. In  
this lies the difference between tourist and pilgrim. The tourist  
travels just as far, sometimes with great zeal and courage, gathering  
up acquisitions and returns the same person as the one who departed.  
The pilgrim resolves that the one who returns will not be the same  
person as the one who set out. The pilgrim must be prepared to shed  
the husk of personality or even the body like a worn out coat. For  
the pilgrim the road is home; reaching the destination seems nearly  
inconsequential. (Andrew Schelling, Meeting the Buddha, edited by  
Molly Emma Aitken,)



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