A Lifting, Three-Dimensional Model of Human Structure
After starting my practice in 1978 it became clear very quickly that Rolfing® was a difficult concept to get across to the general public. The use of slides alone helped people grasp the notion of structure and the importance of gravity. Building upon that, the importance of gravity, structure, and proper movement could be brought […]
What’s in a Handshake?
The anniversary of Dr. Rolf’s birth has prompted many to review the paths their lives have followed since their first contacts with her work. One of my early and profound experiences was shaking hands with Dr. Rolf. I was to give a talk on the energetics of connective tissue in an advanced class in Philadelphia […]
An Interview with Carlos Repetto
HANS GEORG: Carlos, can you tell us how you developed your work and what this “Theatre Of Gesture” is all about? CARLOS: My interest in the theatre extends back as far as my childhood. The impressions I got during my first experiences in school have molded me indelibly. Play acting became something natural for me. […]
A Look at the Past and Future of Rolfing
I spent a wonderful and enlightening week this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will, Dr. Marvin Solit who was tine of Dr. Roll’s earliest students and whom I’m sure most of you have never heard of. I certainly hadn’t until tins Oschman brought him to my attention. The earliest years of Dr Roll’s ,caching and exploration:, […]
Breathing in The Gravity Field
PREFACE Breathing is a familiar phenomenon to us all. Each one of its has a unique experience of breathing; in fact, we don’t have any experience of life without breath. Nonetheless, if I were to ask you “what is, the function of breathing?” chances are you would answer something like “CO2-O2 exchange.” You would answer […]
The Psychology Curriculum of F.O.B.
BH: When I was twined, twelve wears ago at this point. Psychology as a subject matter wasn’t touched at all. We had very Sophisticated judges of human character in the teachers. Some of that had to rub off but my question is, what’s happening nosy’ Now there is pre training, which wasn’t around when I […]
The Teachings of Anne Wilson Schaef and Rolfing
BH: Tell me about your training with Anne Wilson Schaef. How has it affected your approach to Rolfing? Have you started doing counseling during your sessions? SS: One of Anne’s views which I’ve adopted and that I’ve found to really be true, is the belief that the body will innately heal itself. We as therapists, […]
Jungian Psychology and Rolfing
BH: You’ve gone in a particular direction with the question of Rolling and psychotherapy…. NF: I had a relatively difficult childhood. I was on the couch in psycho analysis tit New York when I was nineteen, the locus then being that I had been in and out of four different colleges. It was very important […]
Bioenergetics and Rolfing
BH: Were you a Bioenergetics therapist before you were a Rolfer, or did you decide to become one since you became a Rolfer? CL: I was in bioenergetics therapy and was introduced to Rolling when people told me that Rolling should be part of my therapeutic process. In therapy, I got Rolfed and then became […]
The Translucent Human
Let’s begin with a very simple question, one that I have asked a lot of people including a number of medical professionals. If you took all the cells out of a human body what would you have left? I mean this literally. If you removed every muscle cell, organ cell, glandular cell, nervous system cell, […]