A New Look at Eye Training
Vision is an area which to a great extent remains outside the realm of treatment by natural and autogenic methods. The orthodox means is by medical and surgical intervention or by mechanical and optical aids. At the turn or the century, William Bates, an orthodox ophthalmologist, recognized that emotional factors piety a significant role in […]
Roundtable Rap on Rolfing
Dramatic Personae RF – Roland Fischer ID – Ida Rolf JS – Julian Silverman JL – John Lilly RF. To start out, just a short recapitulation of the discussion yesterday of the sensory motor ratios in relation to the perception-hallucination continuum at higher levels of allotropic arousal… Instead of saying that hallucinations are perceptions without […]
Resource Service
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Fragments of a Whole Process
Dear Dr. Rolf. I am grateful for what the (Structural Integration) processing has done for me ? Please forgive the subjectivity and please forgive the writing of fragments of a whole process that has been taking place in me. Some of the following may seem like “old stuff” to you by now, but it is […]
Do You Know How to Breathe?
There is no shortage of information about the physiology of breathing most of us know that too little oxygen or too much carbon dioxide will make us want more air, and we know that various reflex mechanisms in brain, blood vessel and lung will work automatically to get the breathing process going. This is what […]
Psycho-Physical Integrity
The technique evolved by the late F. Matthias Alexander is generally regarded as one for altering the postural behavior of individuals, and indeed it can be so regarded. However, it concerns itself with considerably more than this. It is a technique for altering the reaction of the individual to the stimuli of his environment, and […]
Muscle Activity
Just what is histochemistry? I think most of us have a fair idea of what chemistry is, but how is histochemistry different? Histochemistry is just a combination of histology and chemistry. Histology is and has been for many years the science that deals with the microscopic anatomy of tissues. We do this simply by removing […]
Discharge Freeing Past Failures
The Rolf practitioner must become skilled at recognising all forms of discharge, both emotional and physical. Often the psychology of the discharge, the emotional outpouring (generally in a vocal form) is the most dramatic, and the most obvious. However, the physical expressions the soreness, pains, chemical changes that would be manifest either in sweating or […]
The Re-Constructive Use of Pain
What of pain as a factor in psychological and physiological evolution? How much is known about pain, and the larger syndrome of stress to which it belongs? How does it function in the learning process, in the development of the self concept, in inhibition, in consciousness? Can it be used constructively to facilitate deep-seated personality […]
Some Thoughts on the Problem of Immunity – Part II
The first half of the following article appeared in the Summer 1970 issue of the Bulletin. There, Dr. Proby (an Irish osteopath who also uses techniques derived from Ida Rolf’s work) argued that immunization and vaccination as currently carried out may, despite their probable efficacy in some cases, ultimately do more harm than good. The […]