NBM e MNC: Narrative-Based-Medicine e Medicine Non Convenzionali
Le Medicine non convenzionali sembrano più adatte a rispondere a quella crisi di fiducia che nasce dalla tendenza della biomedicina di trattare la malattia esclusivamente dal punto di vista biologicopatologico, come qualcosa da eliminare dal vissuto esperienziale dei soggetti coinvolti. ?(1) La richiesta che arriva dalla parte dei pazienti è di essere presi in considerazione […]
Structural Stretches / Self Exploration and Cultivating the Vertical
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This manual was created and compiled with the help of so many friends over the years, and in so many different places that it has, in fact, become a truly worldwide collaboration of many hearts and minds. First of all I must acknowledge the profoundly important foundational work of Dr. Ida P. Rolf and […]
Estudo de Pacientes com Síndrome Fibromiálgica Tratados pelo Método Rolfing de Integração Estrutural
Estudo de Pacientes com Síndrome Fibromiálgica Tratados pelo Método Rolfing de Integração Estrutural Paula Stal de Campos Maia Estudo de pacientes com síndrome fibromiálgica tratados pelo método Rolfing® de Integração Estrutural Dissertação apresentada à Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo para obtenção do título de Mestre em Ciências Área de concentração: Neurologia Orientador: […]
A Dialogue Between Two Rolfers
Tom West: The good folks of the Rolf Institute have asked us to dialogue concerning a father and daughter both becoming Rolfers. I can say at the very beginning how proud I was when my daughter decided to move in this direction. But first of all, let me say a few words about my getting […]
More About Focal Dystonia and Rolfing SI for Professional Musicians
While reading the very interesting conversation between Tessy Brungardt and Carolyn Pike entitled “Rolfing for Professional Musicians” (Structural Integration, September 2008), and specifically the material about pianist Leon Fleischer and focal dystonia, I found a sentence that motivated me to write something about my own experience with focal dystonia. The sentence that got my attention […]
A Rolfer’s Response to Gracovetsky
This article is a response to Dr. Serge Gracovetsky’s presentation to the Rolf Institute Annual Meeting in 2008 in Boulder, Colorado. Because it is the job of Rolfers to understand healthy function of the muscular/skeletal system, as well as to observe the impediments to it, we are interested in a comprehensive model of walking that […]
Embodiment and Grace
What is Embodiment? When we think about our work with our Rolfing clients, we think not only about helping them to achieve alignment, but also about helping them to achieve embodiment of the Rolfing process. What is embodiment of Rolfing Structural Integration? What does it look like? What does it feel like? How do we […]
Dimensional Touch
The greatest sense in our body is our touch sense. It is probably the chief sense in the processes of sleeping and waking; it gives us our knowledge of depth or thickness and form; we feel, we love and hate, are touchy and are touched, through the touch corpuscles of our skin. Lionel Tayler(1) […]
SourcePoint Therapy and Its Implications for Rolfing Structural Integration
The SourcePoint Blueprint and “The Line” SourcePoint Therapy theory brings with it the powerful implication that the “vertical line,” Dr. Rolf’s “line of gravity,” is an actual energetic structure – an energetic organ with a function as vital to our being as breathing. Rolfers talk about “the Line” as an indicator of order; but it […]
A Polarized Conversation About, Amongst Other Things, “The Line”
Two Rolfers meet for supper in a pub and, after sharing a hearty and convivial meal (and downing a number of beers, which always helps to loosen the tongue), remove their gloves as they begin to propose very different views of “The Line,” whose certainties depend at least partly on refuting the validity of the […]