The Role of Acupoints in Rolfing
A few years ago, I wrote an article about my discovery that the superficial fascia was organized in “acustripes,” i.e., the area defined on the edges by the acupuncture meridians. In my own practice, I continue to explore ways to release tensions in the connective tissue in the acustripes. I search for even more effective […]
Rolfing, Visceral Manipulation, and Acupuncture
In 1983 I was auditing Rolfing class. Van Dam, our assistant teacher, told us during his demonstration of the seventh session that he often did a lot of work on the scalp. I must admit that for many years I never paid much attention to his advice. About 15 years ago, I started to work […]
Connective Tissue as an Energetic and Informational Continuum
SUMMARY Those who are interested in fascia and connective tissue occasionally get glimpses of remarkable phenomena that are at the edge of perception and that seem inexplicable in terms of science. This article looks at a number of such phenomena that give us insights into the role of the connective tissue/ living matrix as a […]
Muscle Repositioning
Introduction Manual therapies, enduring, and subjective Manual therapies are part of human cultural history. Over the centuries, countless manual therapies have been developed, and even now many traditional approaches are still used alongside modern techniques. But perhaps because manual therapies are difficult to study, their mechanisms of action are poorly understood. This hinders their further […]
The Garden of Paradise
[:en]<center>The Vision</center> Our vision for the new school for Structural Integration we?re creating in Ecuador includes being in a beautiful, temperate (non-tropical) natural environment that offers not only excellent instruction in Structural Integration but also ample opportunity for reflective immersion in nature as well as richly diverse participation in a highly creative learning community. Our […]
Exploring Our Legacy
The Source Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) was raised in a wealthy Polish aristocratic family. As a highly educated engineer and Russian Army officer, he survived his wounds while serving on the horrific battlefields of World War I. In 1915 he was ordered first to Canada, and, in 1917, transferred to New York to serve as a […]
Points of Departure
<center>Globalocal</center> To declare a prejudice from the outset, I am an avid proponent of the holistic and educational aspect of Ida Rolf?s work.(1) Structural Integration is, as she herself said, in the line of Asklepios, not in the line of Hippocrates.(2) Structural Integration is one jewel on a long necklace that links our daily work […]
Reiki and Structural Integration
Reiki Initiation and Structural Integration Training Thirty years ago, I encountered a fascinating system of energy healing called Reiki. Japanese in origin, it is a practice of receiving, channeling, and giving life-force energy to create balance and healing in any living thing. During my first degree Reiki initiation, I felt myself receiving an infusion of […]
The Mysteries of the Blueprint
My clients often hear me say that Structural Integration does not focus on symptoms, pathology, or a diagnosis of disease, but rather on that ?blueprint of perfection? within each of us, from which we all fall short. I explain that this is why Structural Integration results are essentially permanent: our bodies recognize what is being […]
Deconstructing Pain in Structural Integration
<center>Introduction</center> Pain has always, justifiably or not, been associated with the experience of Structural Integration. This is exemplified in jokes from the early days of Structural Integration about a Rolfing practitioner ?sharpening his elbow,? and seems to be the main thing that the public at large knows about the process. During Structural Integration training, the […]