Lecture – Demonstration
We believe the evening came off as well as it did because it was a team effort, and we are commenting on the procedure in case someone else wants to use it. Keith started out with a semi-formal rap, Peter analyzed the model and did the processing, local practitioners fielded questions during and after the […]
An Introduction to Structural Integration
Most adults accept aches and pains and “that tired feeling” as a part of everyday life. To relieve this unease, some take a vacation, others explore psychotherapy. Relief is seldom more than temporary. Yet almost everyone is aware that they have the potential for a much fuller experience of life. The missing key lies in […]
The F. Mathias Alexander Technique
1. Introduction “No one would deny that we ourselves enter as an agency into whatever is attempted and done by us. That is a truism. It is not so generally said, however, that the hardest thing to attend to is that which is closest to ourselves, that which is most constant and familiar, this closet […]
Talk on Wilhelm Reich´s Work
I feel both moved and a little bit anxious about speaking on this subject tonight. I’ve been involved for many years with Reich’s work. I’ve also been involved in a number of other ways of thinking including psychoanalysis and traditional sociology. But I keep coming back to Reich’s work as a kind of nagging, unfulfilled […]
Rolf Is More Than a Four-Letter Word
I have read much material on the physiological aspects of rolfing, and also on the area of pain. Yet my desire to enter into rolfing was only vaguely connected to the ideas of Structural Integration as such, and my experiences as a rolfee were much more important from an emotional than from a physiological aspect. […]
Whiplash Injuries
What is whiplash, how is it obtained and haw alleviated? “Whiplash” is a blanket term for a strain, a quick movement generally unexpected and produced by outside sources on the patient and is reacted to according to the patient’s consciousness of the impact. Stub your toe, hit a door or suffer any other sudden action […]
The Body and Its Uses – The Gurdjieff System
We can be aware of being present “here and now”. This awareness may be experienced indirectly as a thought “about” presence and it can also be experienced directly “as” presence. The second mode is irreducible to any simpler or more immediate mode of experiencing. Thus a tooth ache is “here and now” and does not […]
Mind and Body
The way the mind and the body are united has preoccupied men throughout the centuries. ‘A healthy mind in a healthy body’ and similar sayings show the kind of unity that was conceived at the time. In other teachings, the healthy mind makes a healthy body. My contention is that the unity of mind and […]
An Osteopath Looks at the Rolf Method
I have been asked to write an article with some such title as “An Osteopath looks at the Rolf Method.” I an willing to make the attempt, and it is possible that I am better qualified to do so than some others because I have now been an osteopath for some forty years and I […]
Notes On Pain : A Participant´s View
I think a lot of what I have gotten out of the rolfing experience has come out of the particular interpersonal situation that is created almost necessarily between rolfer and rolfee. One aspect of this basic situation is that of a strong powerful authority figure responsible for evoking pain in the rolfee. This is a […]