ABSTRACT Christoph Sommer interviews his faculty colleague Peter Schwind on how our work can influence the brain. Schwind discusses early insights, the manual work of Jean-Pierre Barral, DO, the classic intranasal work of Ida Rolf’s Seventh Hour, the interface of the viscerocranium and neurocranium, the senses as bridges to the brain, and the important concepts of ‘container’ and ‘contents’.

“If you have a liver structure that is functioning very badly and the rest of your body is doing reasonably well, you will be taking away energy from your general store to keep that liver going.”1 Ida P.Rolf