Changing the Trajectory of Life
From Anne Hoff: As Editor-in-Chief of this Journal, planning a theme on Rolfing SI for infants and children, I felt it was important to include Briah Anson among the Rolfers who shared their perspectives. I was familiar with Briahās work from her book and video on working with children (see bibliography), and knew that she […]
Developmental Torsion in the Long Bones of the Leg
Introduction This article describes normal and abnormal developmental changes in orientation of joints in the legs. Knowledge of these developmental pathways is essential for working with children. It provides the practitioner with valuable insight to where each child is in this developmental sequence, allowing reasonable expectations to be set for structural work, and may point […]
Considerations for Sessions for Newborns with Feeding Issues
Newborns commonly arrive in our offices with feeding issues. Problems transferring milk can show up as pain for the nursing mother, as a baby who grows increasingly frustrated and upset during feedings, or when a babyās weight gain is insufficient for healthy growth. As trained Rolfers, we already have a facility for working with the […]
Furthering Idaās Vision
Authorās Note: Karen Price is a Certified Advanced Rolfer in Palo Alto, California. Karen has been a Rolfer for nearly forty years and has specialized in Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) for children for the duration of her practice. I had the opportunity to speak to Karen to ask her more about her experiences working with […]
What We Have in our Hands
It isnāt often that a newborn person meets a pair of hands that offer Rolfing Structural Integration; yet when this meeting does happen, growth assistance that can gently guide the structural accomplishments that are actively expressing can be offered to this fresh human organism. The newborn baby is still pulsing like a singular pouch of […]
RolfingĀ®Ā SI for Babies,Ā Children, and Families
Introduction Starting in 1975 with one of Dr. Ida P. Rolfās grandchildren, I have worked with hundreds of babies, children, and whole families. My intention and commitment is to see Dr. Rolfās vision realized in our work and thereby create fundamental changes to the world we live in. In the last year of her life, […]
Working with Children
A: I very much like working with children and work with infants, children, and pre-adolescents. In my Basic Training, during the auditing phase (yes, it was during that time, the āStone Ageā of Rolfing SI), Stacey Mills ā our Rolfing instructor ā had organized an afternoon with children of different ages, from babies to […]
The Three-Dimensional Foot, Part 2
This is a follow-up to my article āThe Three Dimensional Foot: The Role of the Toes and Metatarsals in a Typology of Transverse- Arch Rotationsā (Boblett 2014). I presume readers will enter this with a knowledge of the previous articleās contents. Very briefly, I presented five types of foot patterns: two presenting in Internal clients, […]
Snowflakes Falling
Snowflakes Falling Each One Landing No Place Special 1. Snowflakes are l ight. They f loat unpredictably in the air. TheyĀ haveĀ a bit of mass, so they do eventually land, somewhere. They offer us a chance to imagine the freedom of a body in motion and the event of falling and landing. What […]
Biotensegrity Summit Report
On Thursday September 17, 2015 the First Biotensegrity Summit gathered in Reston, Virginia. I had the great pleasure to attend this and the preceding Biotensegrity Interest Group, or BIG, which was celebrating its seventh meeting, and out of which the Biotensegrity Summit was born. Run jointly by John Sharkey (famed clinical anatomist, exercise physiologist, and […]