Twenty Years with Rolf Movement
It has been twenty years since I began my practice in Rolf Movement Integration (RMI). Over the years the work has grown and matured, as has our understanding of Ida’s vision, which involved seeing the individual as a whole person. As Vivian Jaye says, “The way a person walks across a room is the way […]
Essential Works in Biodynamics
This quote from D.H. Lawrence could have been written about the study of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BDCST). BDCST is as much a training in perception as it is a therapeutic process. BDCST has given me the opportunity to immerse myself in a field ripe for impassioned study. Recently, I was asked to review some of […]
Making of a Rolfer – From John Lodge
From John Lodge: NAME SIX SYSTEMS OF THE HUMAN BODY AND DISCUSS THEIR BASIC FUNCTION, CONSTRUCTION AND INTERRELATIONSHIPS. The Skeletal System “Bones do not hold up the body. They determine where soft tissue, which does hold up the body, shall be alloted its space in the organism.” (Dr. Ida Rolf ) It is clear that […]
Mechanisms of Perception: Their Development & Function
The perceptual basis of all motor activity includes all known senses. However, this discussion will be restricted to those perceptual mechanisms which are universally concerned with performing motor activity, eliminating occasional sensory participants in motor activity such as taste, audition, and other senses not ordinarily concerned with motor activity. The physiological mechanisms which are universal […]
Personal Report
In the middle of May, just before training classes began at Big Sur, the Foundation held its first conference on research, attended by a mixture of 100 people from three different groups. Rolfers came whose interest stemmed from their professional work. People from various scientific disciplines who had been rolfed themselves came to seek out […]
Research Concepts
SUMARY: The time is ripe for research in SI. Success in this effort requires active participation by the best rolfers and scientists who can be recruited. Whether SI becomes a healing cult, or moves into a solid, scientific methodology depends largely on practitioners. Decisions have to be made regarding the type of research paradigm to […]
The Therapist as Gravity
It occurred to me as I spent some time reflecting on this morning’s session that as much as I appreciated what had been going on around here, there was a point at which a proverbial forest hadn’t been recognized for the proverbial trees. This is what 1 would like to bring to your attention at […]
The Fence or the Ambulance?
It was a dangerous cliff, as they freely confessed, Though to walk near its crest vas so peasant: But over its terrible edge there had slipped A duke and many a peasant: So the people said something would have to be done, But their projects did not at all tally: Some said, “Put a fence […]
On Pain
For me, the pain associated with rolfing comes in three nearly distinct levels. On the first level, I hide out from the pain, usually in my head, perhaps fantasizing another place or time to forget a portion of what is happening. On the second level, I begin to accept the pain and its location, but […]
Homeopathy
When I first met Ida P. Rolf in 1973, she was teaching a basic Rolfing class in Lake Placid, Florida; and as her “secretary”, I was responsible for assisting in her travels and maintaining her household. One of the essential pieces of luggage she carried with her was a large, well-worn leather valise filled primarily […]