A Few Things We Need to Know About Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus a serious chronic metabolic disease will cause people to die earlier than they would without it. Diabetes Mellitus, is a greco-roman word that actually means: excessive and sweet urine. In the past, before labs existed, devoted Doctors did not only look at their patient’s urine, they must have tasted it too. How else […]
Rolfing as a Third Paradigm Practice
As part of the effort over the past several years to create a national certification for body-workers, a great deal of time and effort was expended in trying to categorize the many forms of bodywork. Out of that process has come a three-paradigm model for characterizing bodywork. First paradigm methods are characterized as palliative in […]
Moving Toward Our Evolutional Potential
Anyone who has spent any time reading Dr. Rolf’s written word knows that she was profoundly interested in the effect of Rolfing on human evolution. But exactly what this effect might have been was never stated clearly. In some references she speaks about evolution as if it had to do with personal growth and transformation. […]
A Review of the Future of the Body Workshop
I’d like to share my experience of The Future of the Body workshop taught in September ’95 by Emilie Conrad-Da’oud and Don Van Vleet. It was a fascinating course and I believe that the cross pollination of the ideas put forth by Emilie and Don are opening the way for a new contextual framework of […]
Spacious Body – Explorations in Somatic Ontology
Jeffrey Maitland’s book, Spacious Body, explores our experience of being alive and articulates the philosophical nature of this experience. It is not a book about Rolfing® structural integration, although Rolfing plays a major role in the author’s personal transformation. Maitland attempts to remove the confusion that commonly surrounds our conflicted experience of the subjective and […]
Valerie Hunt’s Infinite Mind: The Science of Human Vibration
With the publication of Infinite Mind: The Science of Human Vibrations (364 pp., Malibu Publishing Co., Malibu, CA 90265), Valerie Hunt has once again distinguished her self in service to the Rolfing community in particular and to the human community in general. Dr. Hunt, who first came to our attention through her research of Rolfing […]
Dueling Dualism
One of the trickier problems to which I have committed hours of mental gymnastics is “dualism.” After first realizing it was not a philosophical commitment to fencing, and therefore the opposite of pacifism, my first tactic was to simply confess to peers, “Hi, I’m Gil: I’m a Dualist.” That at least got it off my […]
Change, Transformation and the Universal Pattern of Myofascial Holding
At the 1994 Annual Meeting I attempted to define and distinguish between what I have come to call the two primary paths of Rolfing: Rolfing as a path of therapeutic change and Rolfing as a path of transformation. I continue to find this distinction useful and would like to clarify and expand on it in […]
Rolfing in Industry:
Background In April of 1992 1 began working, as a Rolfer, for Starkey Laboratories, Inc. A privately owned company, Starkey is the world’s second largest manufacturer of custom hearing aids. In 1992 they were aggressively addressing problems of high workers’ compensation costs, much of which was due to repetitive stress injuries, such as carpal tunnel […]
Review of Neuroanatomy Involved in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) has been an interest of mine for several years, so I was very pleased to be asked to be a participant on this panel. Carpal tunnel syndrome is precisely defined as a “compressive peripheral neuropathy of the median nerve at the wrist.” It is the most common of the peripheral neuropathies […]