Whiplash Injuries – Reprint
What is whiplash, how is it obtained and how alleviated? “Whiplash” is a blanket term for a strain, a quick movement generally unexpected and produced by outside sources on the patient and is reacted to according to the patient’s consciousness of the impact. Stub your toe, hit a door or suffer any other sudden action […]
Element Four: MOVEMENT
<img src=’https://novo.pedroprado.com.br/imgs/2005/697-1.jpg’> A dancer, Michael Nebadon, formulated some concepts of movement which, for me, have made structural integration a great deal clearer. His idea of expansional balance was already implicit in Dr. Rolf’s concepts of core and sleeve, I think, but she did not fully communicate the dynamic aspect of her vision. Often her students […]
The Intersubjective Field of Healing:
INTRODUCTION Recent advancements within neuroscience confirm that the therapeutic alliance (i.e., the collaborative relationship between patient and therapist) plays a major role in the outcome of therapy, even more so than technique. A primary component of the alliance is the emotional bond that is formed and the regulation of feelings between patient and therapist. With […]
Short Right Leg Syndrome
A hotly debated and exceptionally significant postural issue begging for a logical and practical explanation is the short right leg syndrome. An inferred awareness of the existence of leg length asymmetry has existed for thousands of years and despite decades of research questioning how leg length differences relate to chronic pain and somatic dysfunction, the […]
The Advanced Class
Why take the Advanced Class? Completing the Basic Class gives anyone the right to practice as a Rolfer. What more can there be? Other techniques can be learned from other organizations and then added to the Rolfing. The issue is mastery and having a reliable path that will take one there. Mastery is developing a […]
Co-Laborare
I got my bachelor’s degree in clinical psychology in 1971, then graduated as a psychologist in 1973. I started working right away. Those days the field of Psychology was evolving rapidly. The ideas of Wilheim Reich were giving place to a body-oriented psychotherapeutic approach. Some classical paradigms were being challenged and an important discussion around […]
The Functional Rationale of the Recipe
This paper is an attempt to synthesize the author’s years of study and teaching of Rolfing° and Rolf Movement with the concepts she has learned from Hubert Godard – Rolfer, movement educator and dancer, brilliantly articulate on many occasions in Brazil, America and Europe. The author wants to express to him her deepest gratitude for […]
Talking to Ida Rolf
These “sayings” of Dr. Rolf were found in a sheaf of type-written class notes that has been copied many times, passed on from student to student. I got it from a fellow student and have no idea from whom it originated; nor did he. The class notes came from a number of different classes, suggesting […]
Structure and Energy
Structural Integration is a system by which the semi-plastic tissues of the human organism are re-ordered so as to effect specific predictable changes in structure and function. It is a process by which mechanical energy is systematically introduced into myofascial connective tissue systems. One of the more striking results of this process is the structural […]
Dynamic Process Integrity
Modern workers, struggling to find that physiological balance called “health,” have been coming to the realization that they must abandon the notion of a specific “remedy” to correct a specific “disease.” Many workers have accepted the idea that by the nature of a complex universe, no one school of therapy is adequate to deal with […]