Crior and Collapse – Part II: Toward the Restoration of Order
Often, people with conditions such as back pain will visit their physician and be handed a list of exercises. Experienced therapists know that there are times when any sheet of exercises may be highly effective. There are other times when the same exercises may be, at best, of minimal help or, at worst, downright harmful. […]
Thoughts on Core and Sleeve
PERSONAL HISTORY. In class when people would ask Dr. Rolf for the anatomy of core and sleeve, she would give an impatient answer, with which I would then argue. After a few years I decided that core was not a structure but rather a feeling. This did not make it any less real. I sort […]
Rose’s Poses
Question: Is there a healthy way of doing shoulder stands without wrecking the alignment in the cervicals? Are these inverted poses really that necessary? Answer: The answer is yes, to the first question, providing the individual is aligned and healthy in the cervical vertebrae in the first place. A mat or blanket is a very […]
Liability Insurance Essential to Professional Security
As little as twenty-five years ago, malpractice suits were few and far between. In those days, when litigation was filed against a hospital, physician, nurse technician, or any of the allied health care practitioners, the suit was ordinarily the result of an extremely serious mishap, and even then only after careful and painstaking consideration. Furthermore, […]
The Problem of Cranial Movement
Many Rolfers have recently become interested in techniques of cranial manipulation. In doing so, we often uncritically adopt the assumptions underlying these techniques without questioning their scientific and anatomic bases. There is a significant difference of opinion between anatomists and the various schools of cranial movement specialists as to the very existence of “cranial movement”. […]
Research Committee Requests Information & Assistance
The Research Committee is pursuing two projects you can help us with. The first project is to support and initiate research into the effects of Rolfing on human performance. By this we refer to peak performance, as in winning an athletic competition, setting a world record, performing a accident or other trauma to the body. […]
Connecting Tissue and Medicine
German Rolfers Tour and Teach " Down Under"
This fall and winter, Certified Rolfer Robert Schleip and Rolfing Movement Teacher Barkha Wolf will conduct a tour to major cities in Australia. They will present lecture/demonstrations of Rolfing and Rolfing Movement; promote the work through contact with the media; and teach a three-week workshop entitled “Seeing and Understanding Bodies: A Rolfer’s View of Human […]
Rolfing and Associated Changes in the Angle of Pelvic Inclination and Autonomic Activity
First, I would like to express our thanks and appreciation to all of you who have given so freely to Phase II of the research project. Your support has indeed made, this project possible. As I outlined in the May-June, 1987 issue of Rolf Lines, our research is a joint project of the University of […]
Who Really Invented Tensegrity
Tensegrity structures and Geodesic Domes are two phrases which were coined by R. Buckminster Fuller. But as I have explored his work, I have discovered that, although he did much important work in both fields, neither one was his invention. The first multi frequency dome was built on the roof of Zeiss Optical in Jena, […]