Hellerwork assumes that we are responsible for our bodies; that we have a choice; that life can be better from now on. Anyone can experience him/herself as a full manifestation of spirit in the simple acts of daily life...
Our organization
Hellerwork International (HWI) is the international organization that connects all the Hellerwork S.I. practitioners around the world. Its mission is to “nurture the growth and integrity of Hellerwork in the world”.
HWI is a Limited Liability Company (LLC) with owner/members of the Hellerwork S.I. practitioner groups. The day-to-day operations are handled by the Hellerwork Board of Managers made up of Executive Officers (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and President Emeritus), representatives of the Regional Practitioner Associations, and representatives of the Education Arm of the Hellerwork community.
A final function of Hellerwork International is to be the center of the fascial web that binds us all together, fostering community, communication and cohesion among the Hellerwork Practitioners around the world.
Our story
Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller was born in Poland in 1940 and received his early education in Europe. He immigrated to the United States at the age of 16, settling in Los Angeles. In 1962 he graduated from Cal Tech, and spent ten years as an aerospace engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where he gained extensive experience of structural stress.
Heller became involved with humanistic psychology and eventually left engineering. He became the director of Kairos, a Los Angeles center for human development, and participated in year-long training programs in bioenergetics and gestalt, as well as shorter workshops with Buckmister Fuller, John Lilly, and Viginia Satir.
He became a Rolfer in 1972 and continued to study through 1978 with Ida Rolf, the originator of structural integration. In 1973 he became a Structural Patterner after learning Patterning from Judith Aston. He received advanced training with Brugh Joy, a noted physician, author and innovator in the field of preventive medicine and the use of energy as a means of healing. He became the first president of the Rolf Institute in 1975.
As a result of his unique combination of expertise and training in structural integration, movement education, and body energy awareness, Heller began to synthesize a new form of bodywork. In 1978 he left the Rolf Institute and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he founded Hellerwork.
Heller currently lives and works in Mount Shasta, California. He continues to innovate and encourage the expansion and development of Hellerwork, worldwide.
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