Dancers and Rolfing® SI
[:en]Amy Iadarola: How did you start working with dancers in your practice, Rebecca? Rebecca Carli: Well, I have worked with various types of dancers since the beginning of my Rolf Movement Integration and Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) career – twenty-eight years ago now. Likely, dancers are drawn to my practice because I have college degrees […]
Osteopathic Thoughts on Structure
My career as an osteopathic physician is a natural extension of my Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) practice in the 1980s. After all these decades, persistence has been a key to the learning process: the body does not yield its structural secrets in a linear timeline nor at my discretion. The various disciplines give you a […]
Edges
What is an edge? Why is it important? Edges are where people meet. Centers (Drummond 2014) and edges are the conditions under which individuality emerges. If you don?t know where your center is, no one can meet you. If you don?t know where your edges are, you can never meet anyone. Meeting happens body to […]
Fascia as an Auto-Regulatory System
Bruce Schonfeld: We?ve talked a lot about fascia research. How is Western medicine receiving all of the research and taking it into consideration? Tom Myers: It is happening very fast. It is being received into the mainstream with speeds I would not have credited to happen in my lifetime. I have surgeons coming to me […]
The Three-Dimensional Foot
An old witch from Ranchos told me that La Que Sabe knew everything about women, that La Que Sabe had created women from a wrinkle on the sole of her divine foot: This is why women are knowing creatures; they are made, in essence, of the skin of the sole, which feels everything. This […]
Seeing
Nobody ever taught you to look at experience before. They taught you to look at the symbol of the experience; at the abstract of the experience. Dr. Ida P. Rolf (class notes) Perception is central to the practice and theory of Rolfing Structural Integration (SI). Yet, the eye a Rolfer™ needs is probably the […]
Athletic Legends and the Power of Rolfing® SI
[:en]The octogenarian body under my hands was broken and distorted by five decades of professional abuse. It also belonged to a Canadian icon. Gordie Howe is the Babe Ruth of professional hockey. “Mr. Hockey” (the nickname by which he is still known and to which he holds a trademark) was the all-time leading scorer in […]
Lessons in the Body’s Potential
Wayne?s Perspective Sandy and I have worked with many great Minnesota Vikings and other National Football League (NFL) players over twenty-three years, including Cris Carter, who was recently inducted into the Hall of Fame, and Vikings running back Adrian Peterson. Adrian has had a total of 10,115 rushing yards in the NFL and eighty-six touchdowns. […]
When Working with Athletes
The Psychology of Athletes For many, there are no limitations only the completion of the goal. These are the athletes and dancers who may flow into our practices seeking help to repair an injury or to rehabilitate from one, and to improve athletic performance. They may be elite or recreational athletes, as well as novices, […]
Aging Rolfer, Aging Clients
Truth be told, I was never a young Rolfer, and am certainly not now, thirty years later at age seventy-six. Feeling old and creaky at age forty-five after my first class at the Rolf Institute® (RISI) in 1983, I went to Louis Schultz and told him that I needed to be able to sit on […]