Rolfing Children with Cerebral Palsy
Wendy is very excited about what is happening: she has noticed significant changes in her body -not so much in her walking pattern as in her ability to move in certain ways and to perform tasks she was not able to do prior to her Rolfing. Although she thinks she will need more work before […]
An Interview with Ida P. Rolf – Part II
FEITIS: How did you happen to meet John Bennett? ROLF: Well, in the late 1950’s, a client of mine from California -Robinson was his name – said, “Do you know anything about Subuh” And I said, “No, but I know where I could find out about it if you really want to know.” And he […]
What Is Rolfing About?
In general mankind has subscribed to the idea that even though they must acknowledge their apparent animal origin in relation, they nevertheless feel themselves unique in Ix wing, as they think, “upright.” The idea of “upright” has a value to humans such that it is used not only to apply to the physical body, but […]
Neuromuscular Structuring of Human Energy
First I would like to put my subject into a large framework by reviewing the major emphasis in science today. For over a hundred years science was primarily involved in the manipulation of exact measurements, attempting to discover the very elemental facts and properties of matter. In the Twentieth century the emphasis has shifted. Measurement […]
The Story of Fire
Once upon a time a man was contemplating the ways in which Nature operates, and he discovered, because of his concentration and application, how fire could be made. This man was called Nour. He decided to travel from one community to another, showing people his discovery. Nour passed the secret to many groups of people. […]
The Erosion of Our Therapeutic Freedoms in the Twentieth Century
During the latter half of the nineteenth century few states in this country had strict medical licensing laws. During this period of therapeutic freedom the United States had its “Golden Age” of active therapeutic minorities and the American people had the benefit of many therapies. My own specialty of homeopathy, although first systematized in Germany, […]
The First Journey
There was an old woman who maintained at the edge of the clearing on the foot of the mountain. Out of percept and open sky, she welded her wisdom of the everyday and the extraordinary. She was Indian, mostly some mix. She claimed the mountain was a still point around which all moving was done. […]
The Effect of Rolfing on Whiplash Injuries
In this era of high speed travel, as well as the pressure of earning a livelihood in a highly industrialized society, anal[ too frequent insult to bodies is the whiplash injury. I have been concerned at the increasing number of people who have come to me in my role as a roller, who have been […]
Health and Natural Law
On reading the appreciation by Dr. Rolf on the new edition of Dr. Henry Lindlahi?s Philosophy of Natural Therapeutics for which I am responsible, I have little to add. I would, however, like to make a new additional observations. The thing which I feel to be most important about this and other works of Lindlahr […]
Getting More from Your Rolfing
I have just been through the ten sessions of rolling! The experience has been an interesting and exhilarating one: it’s been a time of rebirth and rediscovery for my self. As a person who had always lived much more in my head than in my body, I would like to share with any readers who […]