AIDS: The Human Touch Approach
Fonte: Rolf Lines – SET/OCT 1988 The use of touch as a healing tool has been accepted, honored, suspected, discounted, and revived again and again for centuries. Throughout each shift in position, a constant reality has maintained: when one person contacts another person with touch, changes occur. If that touch is brought with ill intent, […]
Movements that Rolf – Part I
I would like to call your attention to the possibility of “MOVEMENTS THAT ROLF”. Until now, as a community, we have been involved with many issues concerning movement, and this article is in no way a comment on any of that history. Rather this is a communication of a fact that becomes more and more […]
The Farther Reaches of Rolfing
We know that Rolfing impacts more than just the physical being. Many of the words we commonly use to describe our work speak to phenomenon that exist at many levels of experience. For example, we can apply ideas such as balance, center, integration, space and lightness to body structure as well as to psychological and […]
A Vision for Humanity
Like so many teachers, I complain that people do not seem to understand my basic goals, the fundamental purposes for which Rolfing has been developed. In an effort to lessen this type of frustration, I offer the following summary of Rolfing ideas, purposes, and developments. First, let me reiterate what I have often said before: […]
A vision for humanity
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Post Advanced Seminar
We have just completed a three week class for Advanced Rolfers and Movement Teachers, and comments which follow are to share some observations and reflections on the process. A CONTEXT OF PEERS. We began with the notion that, at this level of continuing education, it was appropriate to think in terms of a context which […]
Research Project Updates
UpdatesPhase I Cottingham / Porges Article Published in Physical Therapy Journal Enclosed with this Rolf Lines is a reprint of our first article that appeared in the March 1988 issue of Physical Therapy, the journal of the American Physical Therapy Association. This article is based on the results of the first investigation (Phase I – […]
The Organ of Form: Towards a Theory of Biological Shape
What is shape? Living organisms have shape. This is so obvious a statement that we take it for granted and become oblivious of the fact that there is no adequate theory of living form and shape in contemporary biology. In this paper, when we employ a theory of shape we shall be concerned with not […]
Integration – Two Sides of the Same Coin
During the 18 years I have been Rolfing and working with people in all ways, I have discovered a basic truth. Underneath all the conditioning and outer negative beliefs and behavior patterns we are beautiful shining stars. When people come to get Rolfed they come for a variety of reasons including relief from chronic physical […]
External Rotation of the Femur
I would like to share with you some thoughts about “external rotation of the femur”. Jan Sultan clarified an important point for me in his description of “internal and external types”. His external type had a tension in the piriformis muscle of the external rotator group. The effect of a short piriformis is an internal […]