Telling, Pushing, Asking, Waiting:
Some years ago, I was bit by a tick and contracted a fairly stubborn case of Lyme Disease. Over the next three years, I saw countless health practitioners, both conventional and complimentary. As one practitioner after another grappled with my intractable and mysterious set of pains and symptoms, I was struck by how often my […]
Fictional Rolfing
One of the most interesting aspects of bodywork is its rich use of metaphor. Just as when we try to verbalize music, we find ourselves describing our experiences of body in a representative figurative language, since this is invariably the most meaningful way to communicate our internal sensations and aid our clients in describing the […]
The Advanced Training, c. 2005
From Dr. Rolf’s original formulation, the advanced class has gone through several permutations. Based on her mandate that in order for the work to be of value it must reach higher and higher levels of specificity, we have been steadily developing protocols that allow us to tailor the work for the needs of the individual. […]
The Allowing-Will
THE ALLOWING-WILL A glimpse into the heart of creation, an experience of the lotus land of purity and the body of the Buddha, an opening into the radiantly presencing spaciousness of this, will inevitably send you careening into the impoverished notions of body, self, and world that our culture blindly projects as truth. The examples, […]
The Use and Abuse of Biodynamics
Within the Rolfing community there is growing interest in one of the most astonishing discoveries made by William Garner Sutherland, D.O. late in his life. His discovery was nothing short of a Copernican revolution in therapy. He called it the breath of life. Since his death, Sutherland’s theories and ways of working have evolved and […]
Revisioning Rolfing in Light of Biodynamics:
During the last seven years of his life, after nearly fifty years of study, Dr. W. C. Sutherland, the originator of cranial osteopathy, came to an understanding of how the body heals itself, and how a practitioner might perceive and interact with this process. The American Osteopathy Association did not take kindly to Sutherland’s newest […]
The Heart of Stillness
Sometime in late 1982, I began studying the cranium as a way to further my understanding of the Seventh Hour. At the time, I purchased Dr. Upledger’s first book and began working privately with one of his students. I was taught the ten-step protocol and although my tutor was highly skilled, I felt uncomfortable following […]
Active Fascial Contractility
Fonte: Structural Integration – 2006 INTRODUCTION Fascia is usually seen as serving a passive role in biomechanical dynamics, transmitting mechanical tension that is generated by forces outside of itself. Contrary to this common conception, Staubesand1 and Rolf2 proposed that fascia is able to actively contract and relax by itself and that such fascial tonus changes […]
How Meditation Helps You Become Your Own Best Friend
Have you ever had the experience of a client getting up off the table and not being ecstatic about the work you did together? It feels like the rug got pulled out from underneath you and you’re not sure if you’re going to land on your feet or your face. It’s an experience we might […]
Equine Rolfing
It was a beautiful June morning, not too hot and not too cold. The Spanish station was on the barn radio. The smell of horse manure and that peculiar smell of urine from alfalfa-fed horses filled the barn. The flies were biting but still lazy in the morning coolness. The horse I was Rolling was […]