Rolfing: Therapy or Education?
My Dear Colleagues, In my view, the work we do has reached the place where expansion of our scope is imperative. The stance that Dr. Rolf took in placing this work as education rather than therapy was, in part, motivated by the political climate in which it developed. During those early years, the alternative (to […]
Rolfing Structural Integration
For the past two semesters at Colorado Mountain College I have been studying Arthur Young’s ideas from his book ‘The Reflexive Universe. My instructor, Dr. Bob Whitehouse in his course “Exploring Human Potential” challenged us to compare different evolutionary thinkers with Young, and I chose as my term paper to relate Dr. Rolf’s work to […]
Research on Rolfing
BACKGROUND Last year the Aspen Research Institute submitted to the Rolf Institute a proposal called THE MUSCULO-SKELETAL RESEARCH PROJECT. Developed by Dr. Julian Silverman, the aim of that project is an integrated exploration of the effects of musculo-skeletal balance upon the various systems within the body. One aspect of the research proposed was to study […]
About the Canadian College of Osteopathy
A small number of Certified Rolfers have enrolled in the Canadian College of Osteopathy (CCO), a five-year program in traditional osteopathy with campuses in Toronto, Vancouver, and Halifax. Here, we interview two graduates of the program to learn more about the school, its curriculum, and its relevance to a Rolfing® practice. ABOUT THE PROGRAM […]
Rolfing Was Never Meant to Be Painful
JB: Hal, rolfing is one of the newer body therapies that has blossomed into prominence, and as such it’s shrouded in a lot of mystery. A lot of people have conceptions about rolfing, and I think a nice jumping-off point for this interview would be for you to explain what rolfing is. HM: To attempt […]
Letter from Hans Flury
Dear fellow educators and/or therapists, I succumb to the temptation of injecting my own present state of confusion into this important discussion. Therapy Webster’s: The treatment of any physical or mental disorder … Duden (German Webster’s): … in order to restore health. Health being a state (!) of well-being. Within the paradigm […]
Rolfing
The first purpose of this article is to present a brief description of Rolfing, its purpose and the results that it achieves. The second, more fully developed purpose, is to uncover and explore some prevalent assumptions about human bodies which art not often brought fully to consciousness and so are not fully examined. These assumptions, […]
Building a Rolfing Practice: the Results of a Survey
This report presents and analyzes the findings of a survey conducted among Rolfers in the Northeast Region in the Winter, 1982-83. The purposes of the survey were to obtain descriptive data on how successful Rolfers are in building their practices, and to determine the kinds of efforts that are most successful in practice building. Of […]
Letter from John Hammer
I am writing in reference to what Dr. Silverman calls putting the “center line” in the structure of the Rolf Institute. Up to the present the Rolf Institute has not assumed the responsibility of editing written articles and papers on Rolfing before reprinting them. Nor has the Institute taken the position of authority of printing […]
Letter from Donald Soule
I am writing the first part of this letter as a member of the Selection Committee and the second part to share my feeling about the “fixing”/recipie discussion. The Selection Committee is going through some reorganization and I am soliciting your input and feedback. The Committee will surely appreciate points of view other than those […]