About six weeks have passed since I finished Module 1 of the Source Point Therapy (SPT) training, held October 10–12, 2015 (on the training itself, see “Learning the Blueprint: The Information Needed for a Human Being to Take Human Form,” “Using Sensation Rather Than Knowledge: Accessing the Blueprint,” and “The Final Day“).
Module 2 is now upon me, running from November 21 to 23. I am looking forward to finding out what techniques we will learn.
Since October 12 I have been bringing SPT into my Rolfing sessions, which amounts to roughly fifty sessions using it. I have also held two SPT practice meetings at my session room, ZERO, mostly with people from Module 1. Here I want to write about what I have learned — through receiving SPT myself in exchange sessions, and through bringing it into my daily meditation practice.
First, breathing. I have made it my practice to check the breath before beginning a Rolfing session. I had observed that this took a considerable amount of time. But when I bring in the sequence learned in SPT — Diamond Point, Entry Point, primary blockage, Navel Point, Diamond Point — the breath deepens and gives the impression of reaching throughout the body. I was able to move into the session straight away.
Second, clarity about where to work. In the Rolfing training you learn a procedure for each session, called the recipe. In session one, the aim is the breath, and you work through a set of designated places. But which of them should you actually go to? Consulting the Blueprint through SPT, including which side to work on, I have the impression that there is less hesitation.
Third, the moment after the work when the client gets up from the table and meets gravity. Integration is needed here, and I could observe that it happens more efficiently than before I brought SPT in. As a result, the seated work I do at the end of a Rolfing session is becoming simpler.
Finally, I have found that when the Rolfing work has gone well, the closing Diamond Point — or the sequence from Rectangle Point to Diamond Point — takes less time. SPT can be used as a way of checking whether the Rolfing work has gone well.
According to Hiroki Sato, the SPT instructor who runs TEN — the space for your Life & Body, SPT can in some cases help reduce allergic symptoms.
To give part of what he wrote: that there have been cases where Source Point alone improved allergic dermatitis and allergic symptoms, and that in the end what matters is where you focus and what you prioritize. And that while the blockage scan in Source Point works from whatever the person most needs, there are also methods, learned later on, for deliberately searching with a symptom or a desired improvement in mind.
It should be said that how such changes appear differs from person to person. What is written here is one individual’s experience, and it promises no particular result.
Which module covers this sort of thing I will find out in due course. In the meantime, I can also expect Module 2 to bring my Rolfing work further along.
I am due in Osaka this weekend. It coincides with the autumn foliage, so I would like to visit Kyoto if time allows.
Note, August 2026
This piece records the point at which I had used SPT in about fifty actual sessions. It falls in the six weeks between finishing Module 1 and starting Module 2.
Reading it again, everything in it turns out to be about time.
A record of things that got shorter
Checking the breath had been taking a long time; now I could move into the session straight away. I had been hesitating over which places to work; the hesitation lessened. Integration after the work became more efficient, and the seated work simpler. The closing Diamond Point began taking less time.
Four observations, and all four are about something getting shorter.
At the time I wrote this up as the effect of SPT. But the record allows another reading. I was about six months into practicing Rolfing, and sessions still took me a long time. Perhaps SPT did not shorten anything so much as make visible where the time should go.
In the 2025 Advanced Training, Less is More came up repeatedly. Support change with the minimum necessary intervention. With energy work, I also learned that the point of judgment is when the body’s own adjustment begins.
But I had received the phrase Less is More well before this piece. In Phase III it was taught as attending not only to what needs working on but to what does not. I knew the words. It took half a year for them to happen under my own hands.
Using it as a way of checking
There is one more interesting line here: that SPT can be used as a way of checking whether the Rolfing work has gone well.
If the work has gone well, the closing Diamond Point takes little time. If it has not, it takes longer. SPT is being used not to intervene but to measure.
In the 2025 Advanced Training, I learned Test, Intervene, Re-test as the basic sequence for encouraging integration. Observe, make the minimum necessary intervention, and observe again — not imposing a change, but watching for whether the client’s own self-regulation has begun (see “Journey to Becoming an Advanced Rolfer — A Summary of the Road to Certification“).
What this piece describes is that Re-test. I was doing it without knowing what it was called.