Rolfing and Strabismus
Learning To See One fine day, less than a year after all the raz-a-mataz of being born, I sat quietly listening to my mother in conversation with a neighbor, probably trying to make some sense out of it, when, unknown to me and all by itself, my left eye began looking in the opposite direction […]
The Surreptitious Aortic Aneurysm
Atherosclerosis, also called Arteriosclerosis, the hypertrophy and fibrosis of the large muscular arteries (the aorta and its major branches) eventually weakens and disrupts the elasticity of these arteries. This loss of elasticity contributes to high blood pressure. The hardened and scarred arteries do not freely expand and contract with the varying needs of blood during […]
A Rolfian Review of Anatomy
in The Beginning: Growth In The Womb-World The moment of conception is creation of life. Within two weeks, the germ cell has become an embryo with three basic germ layers: the ectoderm, the mesoderm, and the endoderm. This is not unlike a star birth in outer space in which the gaseous nebula later condenses into […]
In Profile… An Interview with Rosemary Feitis and Louis Schultz
Bill: To generations of Rolfers, what is amazing about you, Dr. Feitis, is that you decided at an advanced age to become a medical doctor. You went and immersed yourself in the medical model, coming from a place, which is as far from the medical model as was possible at one point. Having done this, […]
Matter, Energy, and the Living Matrix
Introduction: Matter and Energy Rolfers and other somatic practitioners have daily and remarkable experiences of human bodies functioning as whole bio energetic systems. The paradigms or metaphors used to describe these experiences maybe structural (material), spiritual, and/or energetic. Here we address aspects of these perspectives and some of the relationships between them. It is our […]
The Experience of Movement
I think I am not speaking only for myself when I say that kinesthetic-oriented individuals can be short on discourse when it comes to expressing the wealth of inner wisdom they contain about movement. Those of us who are verbally disinclined will use gesture, posture and locomotion long before we will resort to words. Often […]
Primary Reflexes and Structural Typology
This article will introduce a new-more neuro biologically oriented-way to look at structural typology. Before doing so I will relate it to other already existing typologies in our field. Currently there exist two structural typologies in the field of structural integration which have been published and have influenced the official teaching of our faculty: the […]
Keep Your Heart Open and Cover Your A…
The themes of our first column “Carotid Sinus Syndrome and Carotid Sinus Syncope” have been chosen in honor of a dear and understandably unnamed colleague and in honor of the swift sympathetic response the above named syncope caused in her body. First a brief quotation to define the problem: “Strong pressure on the neck over […]
In Profile… Robert Schleip
August 15, 1993 Bob: I just want to say that I’m really excited about the articles you’ve been writing for Rolf Lines, and it feels to me cutting edge material. I was blown away by your workshop. You’ve been a gadfly. You’ve been pricking at the membrane of the Rolf Institute and the faculty to […]
Rolfing The New York Mets
BH: Hello, Matt. MS: Does it sound funny, us on both phones? BH: No. MS: Well, we’re okay. BH: Well, in my vision of what we’re doing today, and you can correct me at any point. MS: We don’t know what we’re doing. BH: Well, what I wanted to do was not make have this […]