Evolving Lives

Tim McNeely began his career as an urban sociologist, and after a major trauma and near death experience devoted his life to the practice and teaching of Dr. Ida P. Rolf’s traditional 10-Series. 

This process – an anatomically informed, and holistic bodywork protocol – organizes and aligns the human being in relationship to itself and its environment for maximum ease and potential. These ten sessions are Dr. Rolf’s lasting gift to humankind.

Tim believes, like the giants of the Human Potential Movement that came before him, that integrated beings create integrated relationships; integrated relationships create integrated communities, and integrated communities create an integrated world. In this spirit he chose western Nevada County as his laboratory a decade ago, and so far has taken 1% of this wonderful population through the transformative experience of the 10-Series. The impact of Dr. Rolf’s legacy there can be seen and felt.

Tim McNeely is the Co-Founder and Structural Integration educator for TensegrityU.  He is certified through the Guild for Structural Integration, and is an Anatomy Trains (ATSI) Advanced Practitioner.  He was a resident at the Esalen Institute and is a certified Esalen massage practitioner licensed in California. While at Esalen he also trained in CranioSacral therapy and Visceral Manipulation through the Upledger and Barral institutes, and is a regular participant in anatomical dissections with Gil Hedley and Tom Myers. He is currently a studying Somatic Experiencing. Tim has made it a mission to study with as many of Ida Rolf’s original Esalen cohort as possible, and many of them are his friends and mentors to this day. He lives and practices in Nevada City, CA.

Kate Flore is an occupational therapist, educator, and Gestalt facilitator. She believes that we are all an instrument of healing – first for ourselves, and then for others and that healing is best done within a supportive community container. She began her profession researching population health disparities at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and the Altarum Institute in Washington DC before a health crisis led her to pursue a healing path outside of the biomedical model. She has a master’s degree in public health, a clinical license in occupational therapy and is on faculty at the Esalen Institute.

After a decade of competitive cycling and desk work, Kate realized that her body had taken the shape of her occupations – her feet off the ground and head forward – limiting movement and self-expression.

In her recovery from an injury that left her left arm and hand without function, it was a combination of movement therapies (yoga, pilates, Gyrotonic), Rolf Structural Integration, the Feldenkrais Method and learning therapeutic touch that began to re-integrate her limb. And it was being part of the Esalen community that re-integrated her spirit. During her training at Esalen, Kate discovered the power of group Gestalt relational process, “Open Seat”, to integrate bodywork and support personal agency. Blending these modalities, she has dedicated her teachings and clinical practice to helping others find ease in body, movement, and spirit. She brings these practices to vulnerable populations including our correctional system, people with terminal illness, and children with severe disabilities. 

As co-founder and an instructor for TensegrityU, Kate is committed to helping support practitioners develop the eyes, hands, body mechanics, presence and professionalism needed to deliver effective holistic and client-centered work. 

Kate is a certified Esalen massage therapist, has trained in Gyrotonic and Pilates and in the Feldenkrais Method with Harriet Goslins, Russell Delman, Jeff Haller, and Raz Ori, and Gestalt Relational Process with Dorothy Charles and Christine Price. She lives and practices in Nevada City, CA and at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA.