Structure, Function, Integration Journal – Vol. 47 – Nº 1

ABSTRACT The author considers her first year of practicing Rolfing® Structural Integration, and particularly the Ten Series. She reflects on how the Series gives a framework to much of her work, but also how a grasping towards its goals can hinder an attitude of neutrality

ABSTRACT The late Rosemary Feitis was an early and influential publicist of Rolfing Structural Integration (SI). She was instrumental in getting Ida Rolf’s books published, in the management of the early school, and in the foundation of the Rolf Institute®. She was also a Rolfing practitioner, homeopath, osteopath, and author. We are indebted to her – and we will miss her.

ABSTRACT The author presents a viewpoint of the Ten Series as one phase in an ongoing project of Rolfing® Structural Integration, including advanced Rolfing work and ongoing maintenance. He discusses this from the context of his history with Ida Rolf through to his dedication to working with families multigenerationally with Rolfing SI.

Advanced Rolfing Instructor Jan Sultan shares with faculty colleague Ellen Freed a deep and broad view of the Ten Series, from his initial training with Ida Rolf through the insights and understanding developed through fifty years of practice and teaching.

ABSTRACT Linda Grace reflects on the Byron Gentry notes from an early class with Ida Rolf (published in this issue), the friendship of Gentry and Rolf, and the development of Rolfing® Structural Integration since this early process.

ABSTRACT The notes taken by Byron Gentry in a class with Ida Rolf circa 1955 give a bird’s-eye view into the evolution of the Rolfing ten-session series (or ‘Recipe’) and the thinking of Dr. Rolf. Archivist Jeff Linn discusses the ‘Gentry Notes’ as the first historical documents that can be relied on in explaining the development of structural integration (SI) as opposed to what might be called hearsay evidence previously.

ABSTRACT We present a transcription of what are among the earliest available notes detailing Ida Rolf’s ten-session series, as she taught it in the mid-1950s under the name of Postural Integrity and as preserved by Byron Gentry, DC, an early student. The notes were re-typed for clarity, with introductory comments added and an image from the archival originals. Rolf and Gentry became great friends, and over the years shared a regular and voluminous correspondence. We include a scan of a letter Rolf wrote to Gentry, less for content than as a document of their friendship and mutual regard.

ABSTRACT Russell Stolzoff talks with Brad Jones about their collaboration in research on structural integration (SI) for soccer players, their love of working with athletes, and their curiosity about the role embodiment plays in sports performance.

ABSTRACT Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) instructor Ray McCall explains the way sessions of the Ten Series interrelate in a harmonic fashion, giving the series an inherent order on many levels. When we bring this conceptualization into our practices, our work is enriched in many ways.