For three days, from October 10 to 12, 2015, I stayed in Osaka for training in Source Point Therapy (SPT). Today was the final day. I wrote about the first and second days separately (see “Learning the Blueprint: The Information Needed for a Human Being to Take Human Form” and “Using Sensation Rather Than Knowledge: Accessing the Blueprint“).
We learned a new technique, the Entry Point. It is an approach for establishing a personal connection with the client, and serves to make the SPT work more efficient. What is interesting is that here, rather than the awareness of connecting to the Blueprint, what matters is the awareness of a personal connection. It comes at the very start of the scanning learned on the second day.
I had thought that a method not oriented toward the Blueprint might get confused with Reiki, but it turned out to be less of a problem than expected. That is because I learned that SPT is not, fundamentally, about sending energy. And in fact, with Reiki you can feel energy running automatically from the crown to the feet, whereas in SPT there is no such sensation.
The Entry Point and scanning both address the whole body. The difference is that the fingers are used to locate the Entry Point, while the palm is used for scanning. This is hard to convey without feeling it. Searching with the fingers for the Entry Point, you find a place where the tingling is strong. Searching with the palm while scanning, you find somewhere the density is greater.
This is probably something that becomes clearer with accumulated experience, so I will look forward to what I notice from here.
The day ended with exchange sessions among the participants. Each session ran forty minutes, in the order Diamond Point, Entry Point, scanning and primary blockage, and Diamond Point again, with the Rectangle Point, Navel Point, or Sacrum Point brought in as needed.
I had learned in Rolfing how much it matters to trust what is happening inside oneself. This was an important moment for recovering the confidence I had lost during the Chi Nei Tsang training.
The training continues with Module 2 and Module 3. According to Hiro, the coming modules deepen the work by increasing the number of techniques for bringing what is obtained from the Blueprint into physical form.
What struck me was this: if Rolfing is a training that follows changes in the physical body, SPT follows patterns of thought — the space inside your thinking widens, and the head becomes easier. What I found genuinely strange was that, with the SPT training over, I felt no fatigue at all. If anything I had more energy. This was unlike any training so far.
That the other person’s body changes on its own without your thinking about it. And that there is a marker — how much awareness you are directing toward the Blueprint. This matters a great deal. In Rolfing it corresponds to the recipe of the Ten Series. Having something to fall back on when you lose your bearings mid-session is a help.
There is no shortage of applications to other bodywork, either. Doing the scan and primary blockage while someone is in a yoga posture deepens the asana. We mostly worked supine on the table this time, but it is possible seated or standing as well. The range is wide, and I am looking forward to seeing how my sessions change.
Of the fifteen participants, thirteen have decided to take Module 2. What will we learn in the next module? I am looking forward to it already.
Note, August 2026
Near the end of this piece there is a single line from Hiro. If Rolfing is a training that follows changes in the physical body, SPT follows patterns of thought — the space inside your thinking widens, and the head becomes easier.
I had forgotten writing it. Reading it again, I understand it now for the first time.
Where the word space went
The word keeps recurring after this. Each time, it points at something different.
The first instance was the year before. In the final interview of Phase II, Giovanni’s feedback included a line about giving space to myself and to the client to make sessions easier to conduct. Space here is the room a practitioner keeps for the other person and for themselves.
The second is in what was written about Giovanni. Takami Kamata, who studied Phase II with the same teacher, described him as someone who embodies space. The interval, the gap, how a boundary is held. The pause deliberately placed inside a session. Answering a question with a question, so that the person has room to search for themselves. Space here is the interval you leave in order to draw someone out.
The third is this piece. The space inside your thinking widens. This is about the inside of the head of the person receiving the work — not the space outside the body, and not the space between two people.
The fourth comes ten years later, in the Advanced Training. One of the three ways of cultivating neutral was sensing the space behind you. And in Ray McCall’s work with the soles of the feet, you suppose there are eyes there, open and close them, and observe how the relationship between body and space changes. It brought me to the understanding that space is not an absence but a field with quality (see “Journey to Becoming an Advanced Rolfer — A Summary of the Road to Certification“). Space here is the physical space surrounding the body.
The title of Maitland’s principal book is Spacious Body.
Room, interval, an opening inside thought, the space around the body. The same word in four places, each pointing at something different. And yet they are not unrelated. All of them face the same way: making an opening where something has become crowded.
That I was not tired that day
There is one more thing in this piece. With the SPT training over, I felt no fatigue at all — if anything I had more energy. Unlike any training so far.
In the three months before this, I had finished a seventeen-day training. Of that one I wrote that I could not relax, that I had to approach it with my guard up, that my health was not good and fatigue set in. The same year, the same autumn.
I think I was receiving, in my own body, the very thing that line describes — the space inside thinking widening, the head becoming easier. At the time, all I did was call it strange.