The Dura Mater
The Dura Mater is the most general tissue of the body for it controls the blood supply to the brain from 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 […]
Apropos of Movement
It seems to me that movement is the great law of life, that every single thin moves. All forms move in the sense that everything appears, takes on form, functions and disappears. In the same sense, everything is horn, crows and then lies; or comes into being, chances, and then goes out of being. The […]
Toward More Effective Manipulative Management of Chronic Myofascial Strain and Stress Syndromes
Osteopathy began as one man’s dissatisfaction with the philosophy and methodology of treating human ills in vogue at the time he practiced the healing arts. (1) (2) The early success and acceptance which Andrew Taylor Still and his students achieved was the result of utilizing new applications of basic principles long known, but infrequently used. […]
Philosophy and Techniques of Gestalt Therapy
A basic assumption of Gestalt therapy is that an individual’s own existing inner resources are adequate to cone with his Problems and conflicts once these are utilized and brought into effective action This therapeutic approach, then, relies on the existing potentials within the patient at the time he seeks therapy. The therapeutic process is directed […]
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THE HIDDEN PATTERN Chapter 1 Yes, bodies can change – your body can, my body can. I do not mean deteriorate I do not mean “age” in the commonly accepted sense. I mean that bodies, the average physical body of flesh and blood is actually an amazing plastic medium which can change and change quickly […]
Notes from a Journal
Writing about my experiences a subject for the Ida Rolf course recently held at Los Angeles faces me with the problem of trying to say in words that communicate whet is basically untranslatable from my inner flow of feeling and knowing. Making this attempt is important though, because from all outward appearances the Rolf procedures […]
Workshop Talk
Notes for New Technicians By Mary Bond Change is a process, not an event; not a single hour of Rolf work or series of ten, but a lifetime. The new Rolf technician knows this, but I would suggest that the events which occur in the course of the work tend to be so spectacular that […]
Structural Integration and Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt therapy emphasizes “awareness” and “focusing on the obvious”. in working with people our existential message can be paraphrased: “come to your senses”, or “lose your mind and gain your senses” as Fritz Perls outs it. Coming to one’s senses” is synonymous with coming to one’s body. There are no senses in the cortex, or […]
Swedenborg’s Interpretation of the Human Body in the Light of Recent Research – Part II
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 knowledge of what is to be is inherent in the seed; the soul or […]
Changing the Body and Its Image
Proponents of Structural Integration maintain that as a result of the introduction of specific stimuli to neuromuscular structures certain changes can be brought about in these structures which move the total organism in the direction of better spatial relationship of bodily parts and better total adjustment to the gravity field. These proponents further hold that […]