On Treating Clients with Chronic Pain
McWilliams: I would to ask you a few questions about how you work with clients who are in pain, especially in chronic pain. I?m going to cover a couple of areas: from an historical perspective ? the things you got from Dr. Rolf; from a clinical perspective, what you?ve picked up from your own experience; […]
Expansional Balance and the ‘Line’
I was quite inspired when I finished my classes with Dr. Rolf in 1968. As a psychologist I felt I had acquired a way to communicate with the core consciousness of a person through the body. Nine years earlier, in graduate school, I had had a ‘beginner’s enlightenment’ using a Zen Buddhist meditation. I discovered […]
Fascia as an Auto-Regulatory System
Bruce Schonfeld: What is the current research saying about fascia being an auto-regulatory system in the body? Tom Myers: It may be hard for some to understand how little was published about fascia in the 1970s. There was a hard-to-follow un-illustrated description of fascial planes by Edward Singer. There was a wonderful, prescient article by […]
Innovations in Caring
Amy Iadarola: I was excited to hear about the service work you are doing. Can you tell us a bit about the organization and how you became involved? John Barton: The organization is Caring Chiropractic, Inc. (CCI), formed in 2010 as an innovative 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Kalispell, Montana ? a thriving northwest Montana city […]
Giving Back to the Elders
In 1985, I was introduced to Native American communities and their traditional spiritual practices. Along the way, I have developed some very long-lasting friendships. I have had the opportunity to spend a great deal of time around many of these people on and off the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations in South Dakota. Often I […]
The Experience of Working in Post-Disaster Fukushima
Anne Hoff: Let’s talk about what happened in Japan with the Fukushima earthquake/ tsunami and nuclear disaster. What was your experience of the earthquake in Tokyo? Hiroyoshi Tahata: The Big Shake happened at 14:46 on March 11, 2011. I was driving with my wife to pick up my son at his school. Aftershocks continued for […]
Sink or Swim
I got off easy in the Boulder County flood of September 2013, and for that I am grateful. I live in Niwot, Colorado, and as the joke goes, we live in an environmental bubble: while there was torrential rain on every side of us the day of the flood, and a mile and a half […]
Rolf Movement® Faculty Perspectives:
Author’s Note: This is the first in a series of interviews with Rolf Movement practitioners who incorporate movement studies within their practices in interesting ways. Over the past twenty years, Aline Newton and I have often participated in workshops taught by Hubert Godard. When we were together in October of 2013 attending a class held […]
Resumo das Apresentações da Reunião Anual
Naper ? processosavanços ? 15 anos de trabalho pelos integrantes do grupo Apresentação Andreza Spadão Reunião Anual novembro 2013 Memória O Projeto Ambulatório começou a ser implantado em São Paulo em setembro de 1998, com a participação de seis rolfistas: Bia Pacheco, Bia Whitaker, Eleonora de Freitas, Marcia Cintra , Paula Mattolido professor Pedro Prado, […]
Impressões sobre a Reunião Anual
Impressões sobre a Reunião Anual de 2013 Por Rosângela Maria Baía São minhas … assim podem estar equivocadas, talvez. Mas três coisas não me saem da cabeça: conexão, conexão, conexão… 1. Estamos mais próximos da medicina tradicional do que pensávamos, no sentido de parceria… 2. O toque leve, sensível, que chega, espera, procura, que encontra, […]