On the Origin and Spiritual Dimension of Rolfing® SI
ABSTRACT This article describes the early influences that shaped the development of Rolfing Structural Integration (SI). Dr. Rolf’s training as a biochemist and her commitment to a materialist view of the body is shown to be complemented or perhaps complicated by her interest in ‘energetic’ descriptions of bodily events. A review of her biographical details […]
Tales from the Closet
I graduated from the Rolf Institute® [now the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute®] in September of 2017 and was fortunate to have an office waiting for me at a fitness center of a college near Dayton, Ohio. This is a great start for me because the management created my website, advertised with flyers, takes payments […]
Thoughts on Practicing and Teaching the Ten Series and the Seventh Hour
ABSTRACT Sterling Cassel interviews Basic and Advanced Rolfing® Instructor Sally Klemm about the Ten Series – when and how she practices it, and thoughts on teaching it. They also give particular attention to the Seventh-Hour work on the cranium as Klemm is also a teacher of craniosacral work. Sterling Cassel: The Ten Series is the […]
A Tribute to Rosemary Feitis
ABSTRACT The late Rosemary Feitis was an early and influential publicist of Rolfing Structural Integration (SI). She was instrumental in getting Ida Rolf’s books published, in the management of the early school, and in the foundation of the Rolf Institute®. She was also a Rolfing practitioner, homeopath, osteopath, and author. We are indebted to her […]
Memories of Vivian Jaye
ABSTRACT To honor Vivian Jaye’s life and passing, Jane Harrington, her longtime Rolf Movement partner and good friend, was asked to write about Vivian’s contribution to the Rolf Instite® (RISI), now the Dr Ida Rolf Institute® (DIRI). She, in turn, asked DIRI faculty Pedro Prado and Libby Eason to share their experiences with Vivian. […]
Instructor Dialogue
ABSTRACT Larry Koliha and Bethany Ward, Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) instructors and also a couple, share thoughts about the Ten Series, both in teaching and in practice. Larry Koliha: I firmly believe that what Dr. Rolf investigated and came up with is a fantastic model. The Ten Series works with all the regions and layers […]
The Bigger Context for the Ten Series
Introduction I was asked to write an article about the Ten Series. One thing I learned from studies with Dr. Rolf and her son Dick Demmerle is that the Ten Series is not ten sessions, but one session broken into ten hours. Similarly, in my mind, there is no such thing as the Ten Series […]
A Question for Jan Sultan
Introductory Remarks by Ellen Freed On a Zoom call recently, I asked Jan Sultan one large question having to do with being taught by Dr. Rolf, and how the basic curriculum of our Ten Series has influenced him in his life and teaching. Jan considered what I asked, nodded, and said, “I can […]
A Memoir of Byron Gentry and His Notes
In 1983, twenty-eight years after Byron Gentry D.C. wrote this description of Dr. Ida Rolf’s ‘Processes’, I walked into the old Rolf Institute® on Pearl Street and immediately saw huge dual portrait of Dr. Rolf and Dr. Gentry, including his large scoliosis and his beautiful Rolf ‘Line’, though it took me a few […]
The Gentry Notes as Critical Rolfing® History
Szaja Gottlieb: I don’t think a lot of people are aware of who Byron Gentry was and what the ‘Gentry Notes’ are. So, a general description of who Byron Gentry was and how the notes came about and then how you obtained them might be a pretty good place to start. Jeff Linn: Byron […]