Developments on Foundations of Bodywork:
The Foundations of Body work has recently gone through a period of unprecedented development and growth. The following was written at the request of the Rolfing faculty, who felt that an update on the FOB’s recent progress would be important to share with the membership at large. Some Background The Foundations of Bodywork (FOB) is […]
An Interview with Rev. Rosalyn Buyere
GH: I’m reviewing Valerie Hunt’s book, Infinite Mind, for Rolf Lines, and I did an article on Emilie Conrad-Da?ud when she was in town. So I was thinking, Well, the time has come to get the third party of this triumvirate of great women. (triumgynate?) RB: Well, you know the last time I talked to […]
Multiple Sclerosis
A progressive inflammatory demyelinization of the white matter of the brain and spinal cord. Presents with multiple and varied neurological symptoms. Usual course is intermittent, progressive, and relapsing. There seems to be a strong genetic component in susceptibility to the disease. Etiology is unknown; theories include autoimmune and/or viral causation. Structural clinical symptoms include: -joint […]
Bell’s Palsy
One-sided swelling of the facial nerve within its canal which gives rise to paralysis or weakness of the facial muscles supplied by the nerve. Most commonly Idiopathic and/or familial, occasion ally associated with Herpes zoster or simplex, sometimes caused by exposure to cold. Usually arises suddenly (over a few days) and presents with total or […]
Rolf Movement Integration: A Fresh Look
There is a popular notion among some members in the bodywork and somatics field that movement work is difficult to speak about. This is often attributed to the fact that the English language is inadequate in describing our internal experiences. Another reason given for this communication dilemma is the fact that (supposedly) our internal experience […]
Joint Motility
What is Motility? Many Rolfers have begun to talk about working with motility. I was first introduced to the term motility in visceral trainings with the Up ledger Institute and again in my Advanced training in 1993. I believe the phenomenal of motility is also what I had been exploring as “unwinding” since my pre […]
Reminiscences of Dr. Rolf
Anna Hyder was a model for Ida Rolf in a class in 1973. Anna had had polio as a young child, spent 15 months in the hospital, and had surgery on her left foot and right achilles tendon at the age of 8. In a 1991 interview with me, she described her experience of being […]
Ida Rolf Is Still Talking
Strength so often is an idea that has effort in it, and this is not what we are looking for. For Rolfing you need the strength that is the result of balance. Now realize this, Ida Rolf did not invent structural integration the body invented it. If I hadn’t come along seeing it and hearing […]
An Osteopath Looks at the Rolf Method – Explorations
I have been asked to write an article with some such title ,as “an Osteopath looks at the C f Method.” I am willing to the attempt, and it is pose that I am better qualified do so than some others bese I have now been an ospath for some forty years I have been […]
The Evocation of Unique States of Consciousness as a Consequence of Somatic Practices
I have been a practitioner of Rolfing for more than25 years and it has been even longer since I received my first sessions from Dr. Rolf. From the beginning, I have experienced in myself and my clients changes in states of consciousness that accompany this work. In fact, the appeal of this work has often […]