Your Spine Is Not a Column

Editor’s note: This article is an excerpt (Chapter 9) from Mary Bond’s book Your Body Mandala (2018: MCP Books, Maitland, Florida, reprinted with permission). We have made modifications for our journal style. [ Click to download PDF Article ]

Fascia Insights – Third Rhythm of the Cranium

ABSTRACT For years the primary evidence of the third rhythm of the cranium was observation by palpation. In 2021 Dr. Thomas Rosenkilde Rasmussen and Dr. Karl Christian Meulengracht published their results of direct observation of the third rhythm using robotics and software analysis in their peer-reviewed publication, “Direct measurement of the rhythmic motions of the […]

From the Editor-in-Chief -Structure, Function, Integration Journal march 2022

“The appearance of this quarterly seems a promise that Structural Integration has finally come of age. As such it is indeed a joyous occasion for me personally, calling for celebration and good wishes. I can imagine nothing more festive and appropriate for this milestone than this medium of communication as projected by our editors. It […]

REVIEWS – A Manual Approach to the Brain – Part 1

A Manual Approach to the Brain – Part 1 with Jean-Pierre Barral Reviewed by Allan Kaplan, Certified Advanced Rolfer™ Viewing this latest offering of DVDs from Jean-Pierre Barral, DO, was a poignant experience for me: I attended Barral’s brain class a year ago, just as COVID-19 was breaking around the world, and returned to the […]

Awakening the Rhinencephalon

By Naomi Wynter-Vincent, PhD, Certified Advanced Rolfer™, Rolf Movement® Practitioner ABSTRACT Rolfers do manual work on and in the nose in the Seventh Hour of the Ten Series. This article reflects on those protocols as well as the implications of COVID-19 precautions. The author explores the idea of nasal intelligence and the role smell has […]

Working with the Bates Method of Vision Education Within Rolfing® SI

By Naomi Wynter-Vincent, PhD, Certified Advanced Rolfer™, Rolf Movement® Practitioner and Pierpaola Volpones, Basic Rolfing® and Rolf Movement Instructor   Naomi Wynter-Vincent: What, for you, is the significance of eyesight and ways of using the eyes in Rolfing Structural Integration (SI)? Pierpaola Volpones: One of the keystones in Rolfing work is body-reading. And it’s one […]

Exploring the Grunwald Eyebody Method®

ABSTRACT In this interview, Ina Bretschneider-Baker discusses her experience with the Grunwald Eyebody Method and the positive impact it had on her eyes and life. Grunwald eye types are considered and how this information aligns with Bretschneider-Baker’s Rolfing® Structural Integration practice.   Ina Bretschneider-Baker Naomi Wynter-Vincent: The Grunwald Eyebody method makes use of these remarkable pinhole […]