Working with Insurance
Anonymous: I share my office with a physician and he uses certain ICD-9 codes to bill for the Rolfing that I do. I am considered a “contractor” that provides services that he bills for. I would caution you about using ICD-9 codes yourself since we do not diagnose folks. At best it might be ineffective […]
Communicating with Clients
Anonymous: Rolfing® attracted me because it created changes, and especially changes in aliveness, openess, pain, awareness and embodiment. So I’m not opposed to change per se. My concern is more about how I go about creating these changes and whether the changes are welcomed or not. Does the change come from “complying” with someone else’s […]
The Electromagnetic Approach to Rolfing
THE BASICS I have been asked to explain what I mean by “direct electromagnetic Rolfing.” Here is a more or less off the-cuff explanation. The body mind is not so much material as materializing. Structure does not exist independently of bioelectric activity, it only appears to in death and dissection. Moreover, living structure as such […]
Don Hazen’s Neurological Notes
LAMINECTOMY Technically a laminectomy is the procedure of cutting away part of the lamina, the posterior part of the vertebral arch from the transverse to the spinous process, in order to gain access to the spinal canal. A discectomy is removal of part or all of the disc. Fusion is not necessarily part of a […]
Rolfing Ruminations
As Rolfers, we struggle to explain what it is we do. There is an intricacy and complexity to the experience of our work that is richer than we can say. I find that the most fruitful discussions are the ones in which I am actively engaged in trying to bring forth from that complexity a […]
Posterior Cervicals
Anonymous: Cervical straightening comes from an “attitudinal” contracture atop the foramen magnum, around the basal brain in front of the occiput. It is like a riveting shut of the dural tube from above. I help people monitor/inhabit the top of their throat for tension while I end feel by cradling the occiput, scanning the dorsal […]
Motility or Mobility?
Bill Smythe: The following distinctions from osteopathy might be helpful: Biokinetic Motility: Outside pressure toward inside. This is based on embryological development where in the first two months there is an outside fluid pressure acting on the membrane system which is epigenetic, i.e., acting outside of genetics. Biodynamic Motility: inside pressure toward outside. This is […]
Radical Somatics and Philosophical Counseling
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS “Radical Somatics and Philosophical Counseling” was written in response to an invitation to present a paper at the December 1998 American Philosophical Association meetings in Washington, D.C.. I have been practicing philosophical counseling for years both within and outside my practice as a Rolfer. When I learned that there was an organization called […]
Interview with Steve Hancoff
Bill Harvey: You are into Core Energetics? Steve Hancoff: Yeah, at this point I’m on the faculty of the Core Energetics Institute in New York, and I’m assisting one of the senior teachers in the new school in Atlanta. In February 1999 I’ll have workshops in Israel. BH: How does one get to be on […]
Where Do You Draw the Line?
The average somatic practitioner has one of two reactions to the word “borderline.” The look in his/ her eyes is either a blank stare that indicates ignorance, or abject terror that indicates a strong negative bias, probably unexamined. I think both are mistakes. This article is about what we can learn from “borderlines,” and more […]