A Fresh Look at the Role of Fascia
Gil Hedley (left) and Bruce Schonfeld (right) Karin Wagner: Hi Bruce. Thanks for taking the time to do this interview. Let’s start with why you decided to make this film, The Secret Life of Fascia. Bruce Schonfeld: I went to film school and I’d been angling to make a film for a long […]
Scoliosis: Assessment and Treatment
PART I: ABOUT SCOLIOSIS All scolioses share certain characteristics, and each scoliosis has a unique combination of other features. All snowflakes are recognizable as snowflakes and no two have ever been found to be identical. So it is with scoliosis. Commonalities in Scoliosis First, the common ground. All scolioses are sidebending (frontal plane) […]
Scoliosis: A Way of Growing
Figure 1: An olive tree. Figure 2: Bamboo. During my years of practice as a Rolfer™, I have come to think of scoliosis as a way of growing. There are trees that grow straight toward the sky and others that twist and torque: bamboo and olives trees. Both are beautiful (see Figures 1 and […]
The Mystery of Scoliosis: Working from Inside Out
Anne Hoff: Thank you Til. I think most people in the Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) world know who you are, through the Rolf Institute® (now the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute™) and your classes and books, but please say a little bit about your current activities. Til Luchau: I spend a lot of my time […]
Working with Scoliosis in Sidelying
Each client is unique, but a lot of scoliosis patterns are a version of the ‘three-curve’ scoliosis pattern described by Christa Lehnert-Schroth. In her seminal book on scoliosis treatment, Lehnert-Schroth describes how torsion relationships create overly strong muscles on the convex side of the curve and short tight muscles on the concave side. Discussing her […]
Working with Scoliosis – In Our Clients and Ourselves
Bibiana Badenes (left) and Bethany Ward (right) How has scoliosis affected your life? Bibiana Badenes: I really think my scoliosis has shaped who I am and influenced my personal development. During my childhood, I had a lot of back and neck pain and movement limitations in specific areas. Bethany Ward: I agree. While […]
Containers and Contents – In General and in Relation to Scoliosis
ABSTRACT In this interview, conducted in September 2018 when he was in the U.S. to present at the Rolf Institute® Membership Conference, Peter Schwind discusses his ongoing work with harmonizing the cavities of the body and their contents. Specific attention is given to a discussion of this in relation to scoliosis. Anne Hoff: Thank you […]
Embody, Disembody, Re-embody, Body
ABSTRACT The scoliotic client is met with a world that idealizes the spine being ‘straight’ and faced with diagnoses and treatment that often focus exclusively on angles, scales, and measures of the spine and rib cage. But what is the experience of the person living within the spine and rib cage? The author broadly reviews […]
Rolfing® SI and Sports
This research abstract is a reformatting of a poster presentation by researchers at Western Washington University, including Certified Advanced Rolfers™ Russell Stolzoff and Brad Jones. The poster was presented at the November 2018 Fascia Research Congress in Berlin, Germany. The study was conducted in 2014 Image of soccer player not part of original presentation. ABSTRACT […]
Working with Scoliosis
ABSTRACT In our regular “Ask the Faculty” column, worldwide Rolfing® Structural Integration faculty answer a question related to the theme of the journal. In this issue, Basic and Advanced Rolfing Instructors and Rolf Movement® Instructors discuss working with scoliosis from angles related to etiology, treatment, expectations, psychobiology, and adjunct modalities that they are experienced in. […]