Back Work
Dear Fellow Rolfers, BACK WORK I want to communicate an idea about back work – an easy way to reset vertebrae that are out of line. Although I had been working along those lines in terms of Osteomassage technique (which I developed before becoming a Rolfer) and Manual Therapy (Norwegian physiotherapy system combining massage and […]
Printed Advertising
I’m passing along some ideas about print advertising and a few more ads I’ve created recently. (They appear on the following page.) I am now rotating about ten different ads in the same weekly paper. They are producing the results I intended. By focusing primarily on “informal ads”, with a lot of content and high […]
Uses for Rolfing Photos
This is written to discuss the role of photography in the practice of Rolfing. As an extension of a class assignment, I was asked to submit these ideas for the general membership. It was stated that “We may have forgotten the purpose of photography in our practices,” hence, the need for this review. In the […]
Rolfing By The Numbers
I’ve been interested to discover that 1986 is very much related to the theme of our connectedness, as understood from the ancient science of numerology. This is a way of looking at the Rolf Institute as if it were an individual, and its date of incorporation as the date of birth. This was May 27, […]
Letter from Stanley Rosenberg
I would like to share some more information about Rolfing, structure and acupuncture. There is another intersting body of knowledge which includes acupuncture as one of its elements which can help us look more effectively at patterns of relationships in the body structure. Looking at this information with the eyes of a Rolfer, we can […]
Humans are Hydraulically Designed Technologies
More than 50 percent by both volume and weight of the average physical structure and mechanics of all biological species on our planet consists of water”, Bucky Fuller writes in his last and most important work, Critical Path. This fact is important to Rolfers if we compare this scientific data to the fact that humans’ […]
Toward the Further Reachings of Rolfing…
Dear Colleagues: Studying physical reality has long been recognized as essential in understanding the nature of human existence. And so it should be. Everything is made out of the same basic stuff, is ultimately born of the same source, and so is part of a fundamental unity. Understanding certain aspects of reality are particularly important […]
The Feminine Principle in Healing
It is a common practice among male shamans in primitive cultures to dress as women during healing rituals. They believe that women are more able to connect with the healing forces of the spirits that lie within the psyche. In the practice of male dominated western medicine, extremely aggressive “masculine” techniques are applied to body […]
Osteopathy: Andrew Taylor Still
Andrew Taylor Still (1828-1917) was a practicing country doctor in the state of Virginia when he founded and developed the theory and manipulative techniques of osteopathy. Still had lost three of his children to spinal meningitis. It was this tragedy and the common misuse of powerful toxic drugs of the era that led to his […]
The Hundredth Monkey
The Japanese monkey, Macaca fuscata, has been observed in the wild for a period of over 30 years. In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand. The monkeys liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes, but they found the dirt unpleasant. An 18-month-old female […]