Osteopathy in a Rolfer’s Practice
Per Haaland: With your background as a nurse/midwife, you are known to some of us in the Rolfing® structural integration world as a practitioner highly skilled in the visceral manipulation work of Jean-Pierre Barral. Tell us a little bit about how broader osteopathic concepts, and the visceral approach in particular, have been integrated into your […]
Manual Therapy for the Peripheral Nerves
Once again Jean-Pierre Barral, D.O. and Alain Croibier, D.O. have followed the original idea of Barral’s thinking and practical experience: that the content is more essential to the organism than the container. In line with this general thought, the central and peripheral nervous systems (CNS and PNS) have been the focus of explorations over the […]
Fascial Layers of the Neck
This article is taken from a workshop I have offered and a presentation I gave at the International Association of Structural Integrators Symposium in Seattle, Washington this past fall. It will initially cover anatomy pertinent to the three fascial layers of the neck, then give some ideas/ guidelines for contacting these layers, and finally include […]
The Advanced Training
The Advanced Training follows several paths that intimately intertwine throughout the class. One is the learning of precise and sophisticated techniques for addressing structural issues that arise constantly in our practices, along with the anatomy and understanding of structure that underlie these techniques. Another path is the exploration of how we perceive both ourselves and […]
Three Rolfers in a Lab
There are two quite different kinds of people dealing with the health of human beings. First of all, there are the “real” physicians. After extensive university studies – during which they have to learn by heart more things than even the most able of them could possibly remember – they have to find out in […]
Building a Successful Rolfing Practice
INTRODUCTION Beginning fifteen years ago, and extending over a period of five years, I published in Rolf Lines a series of articles, reports and suggestions about various aspects of building and maintaining a successful Rolfing practice. The focus then, as it is in this article, was not on the clinical aspects of the work, but […]
The Relationship of Contralateral Gait and the Tonic Function Model of Structural Integration:
CONTRALATERAL GAIT AS A BAROMETER OF NATURAL HUMAN FUNCTION Contralateral movement of the spine primarily, and of the limbs secondarily, seems to be “hard-wired” into human coordination. Put another way, the human body is designed to walk and run so that the lower trunk and pelvis rotate and the upper trunk and shoulders counter-rotate. The […]
Core Stabilization, Core Coordination
The author is once again grateful and indebted to Hubert Godard for his capacity to respect and synthesize both the contributions of science and the wisdom of experience HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE In the past five years, the concept of spinal segmental stabilization has received considerable attention from research science.’ Sometimes known as “core” stabilization, this approach […]
Review of a Headache in the Pelvis
Though the ideas in A Headache in the Pelvis are well known within the Rolfing’ community, it is important for practitioners to be aware of this book. The next time a prospective client calls and says, “I have prostatitis and have been to everyone, can Rolfing help?”, you will have little hesitation when reaching for […]
Know Thy Self
Intention is one of the many powerful tools that we use as Rolfers. Having awareness around cellular processes refines our ability to hold influential thoughts while we work with our clients. The immune system is a cellular process maintaining our system free of infection from bacteria, viruses, funguses, parasites and even cancers. How the body […]