A Gift from My Grandmother

ABSTRACT Frances Demmerle shares how she became an osteopath and the influence that her grandmother, Dr. Ida Rolf, had on her career trajectory. click “download” to get full text in PDF

A Rolfing® Family

ABSTRACT Bethany Ward and Larry Koliha are both Rolfing® Structural Integration faculty while also being husband and wife; in this article they share their journey to co-creating their careers and their lives. [Authors’ note: Larry and I worked on this article together but, in keeping with the topic, we are family, and that means whoever […]

A Phenomenology of Whiteness in Rolfing® S

ABSTRACT This paper discusses aesthetic and phenomenological philosophies as a lens to understand and discuss Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) and its relationship to orientation, neutrality, and Whiteness. Three primary understandings of orientation are discussed to investigate the aesthetic standards SI upholds, and the racialized implications of such standards. The first orientation relates directly to the […]