An Introduction to Structural Integration (Rolfing)
STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION, or rolfing, as it is popularly known, is a technique for reordering the body so as to bring its major segments head, shoulders, thorax, pelvis and legs toward a vertical alignment. Generally speaking, rolfing lengthens the body, approaching an Ideal in which the left and right sides of the body are more nearly […]
The Dura Mater (reprint)
The Dura Mater is the most general tissue of the body for it controls the body and is directly or indirectly in contact with all the tissues of the body. It is also a laminated covering and has as many as six laminations in some areas. It completely covers the brain and forms the Falx […]
Swedenborg’s Interpretation of the Human Body in the Light of Recent Research – Part II (reprint)
FASCIA The healing arts deal with universal principles, understandable, balanced, relatively unchanging, orderly, constructive, consecutive and true. Man and all things below him are consecutively created for uses on whatever plane or degree they occupy: mineral, plant, insect, animal and man. A know ledge of what is to be is inherent in the seed; the […]
Swedenborg’s Interpretation of the Human Body in the Light of Recent Research – Part I (reprint)
We hear much about “the whole man” yet who knows what the whole man is? He has been divided into the physical body (physiology), mind (psychology) and soul (theology), each a separate body. I have been in the healing art for over sixty two years and I have always considered man as a unit, physical, […]
The Cranium (reprint)
The outermost covering or protector of the brain is the cranium which includes its bony structure, scalp, and hair. This bony fortification and bulwark of the cranium protects and limits the brain’s motion, for being a living structure, it expands and contracts in the same manner as does any other living cell or organ. The […]
An Appreciation for Isabell Biddle, D.O.
Our friend, Isabell Biddle, left our three-dimensional world four years ago (December 5, 1970). Those of us who had known and worked with her are still aware of our spiritual loss in her passing. Many of our newer workers met her briefly in her last years. However short their acquaintance, her impact was always that […]
The Concept of Strength
What is strength? When we say that an individual is strong, what do we mean? That he can lift 200 lbs., dance a full evening-length ballet, run twenty miles, or live 100 years? The capacity to do one of these things does not in It self convey the ability to do any of the others. […]
Adult Basic Connective Tissue
FORWARD A body lacking connective tissue would be a pulsating mass of protoplasm. During man’s evolution, connective tissue provided a material for specialization of his various conceptualized systems and a connecting medium for the bio-energetic regulation of the body. As a part of the musculoskeletal system and thereby influences his energy level within this force […]
T’ai Chi
I came to T’ai Chi not as a movement person, and probably because I wasn’t. I was looking for a movement, or form, that would enliven rather than exhaust, something that would increase strength from the inside rather than drain energy. I looked to an Eastern form, since there I could find a traditional mindset […]
Medical Malpractice Laws as They Relate to Holistic Health Perspectives
Introduction In the summer of 1972, I had the opportunity to audit the practitioner training in order to explore for myself the origins of the rolling process which I had experienced. During that training I came to understand from Dr. Rolf how the dynamics of health were different from the tenants of medical science, a […]