The Haptic Sense, Part 1
The author wishes to express special thanks to Hubert Godard for bringing these concepts to the Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) community. To perceive is to construct a mental representation through the receipt of sensory input; i.e., we are conscious not of the things around us, but only of our subjective representations. For centuries, philosophers and […]
Cross-pollination of Rolfing® SI and Other Endeavors
Q: Can you speak to something in your own life that has cross-pollinated with your Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) practice, leading you to a particular perspective, understanding, or way of working? A: Speaking of the cross-pollinations that have affected my perspective on the body, and on Rolfing SI, the first mandate from Ida P. Rolf […]
A New Paradigm of Anatomy
John Sharkey Brooke Thomas Brooke Thomas: Today, I’m talking with John Sharkey who is a clinical anatomist, exercise physiologist, and European neuromuscular therapist. He’s developed the world’s only master ’s degree in neuromuscular therapy, which is accredited by the University of Chester (UK). He’s on the editorial boards of the Journal of Bodywork and […]
Putting the ‘Health’ Back into Healthcare
So many therapists are striking at the pattern of disease, instead of supporting the pattern of health. One of the things that you as Rolfers must always emphasize is that you are not practitioners curing disease; you are practitioners invoking health. Invocation is possible by an understanding of what the pattern is, the structural pattern […]
Rolfing® SI as Part of Healthcare
Introduction Twenty years ago I became a Rolfer. Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) training changed my way of looking at a person, a client, a patient – seeing the whole person not just the parts, and also understanding the relationship of the parts. This also led me to a new sense of myself and has been […]
A Team Approach
Over the decades, I have developed an extensive referral network. Many of my clients can benefit from other services in addition to what I can offer. Other practitioners have their areas of expertise and often recognize that at any given time, their clients may need additional services, including what I can provide. I refer to […]
A Physician’s Perspective
Introduction by Linda Loggins: Through mutual colleagues from Texas, I met Wiley Patterson in Boulder in the 1990s. Wiley and I have interacted at regional meetings, structural integration workshops, and occasional social gatherings. I consider him a friend and colleague. Wiley graduated from Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara medical school in December 1978. He went through […]
Fascia Pioneer
Thomas Findley Anne Hoff Anne Hoff: We’ve been wanting to interview you for the Journal for quite some time, so I’m thrilled this is taking place. Let’s start with your background. You became a medical doctor in 1977, got a PhD in physical medicine and rehabilition in 1983, did your basic training with the […]
From Embryo to Adulthood
Editor’s Note: This interview was originally done for Brooke Thomas’s The Liberated Body Podcast. You can listen to this interview at www.liberatedbody.com/jaap-van-der-wal-lbp-057/ Jaap van der Wal Brooke Thomas Brooke Thomas: My conversation today is with an embryologist and anatomist, one of my longtime personal heroes, Jaap van der Wal. He’s been a professor at various […]
Manually-Evoked Tensegrity and Pandiculation, Part 1
Foreword This article describes the development, initially serendipitous, of a style of fascial manipulation currently referred to as Tensegrity Touch. Its outset was the observation from various Rolfer colleagues who noticed “something different” in the my (Bertolucci’s) manipulation maneuvers. Operating from the Outside: Blunt Dissection This all started back in the late 1980s, during my […]