My Practice in Two Cities
I was a professional dancer, dance professor and choreographer for over twenty-seven years before I started the Rolfing training. I finished Unit III at the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration® (RISI) about a year ago, in October 2007. There are challenges to starting a new career and practice at fifty. Quadruple that when you factor […]
Boulder… and Beyond
Editor’s Note: In this issue we profile two Rolfing practitioners in Boulder, Colorado, which presumably holds the record for practitioner density per square mile. Interestingly, both of our subjects also have traveling practices. A key difference is career stage – sone has been in practice for many years, the other is relatively new. As I […]
The Client Who Doesn`t Feel Anything
Q: Do you have any suggestions for working with clients who have little body awareness (for example, clients who cannot feel any change from a session, even though as a practitioner you can see changes have occurred)? A: Most of us have had some experience with a client who doesn’t feel anything. As we […]
A Broader Perspective on Mouth and Nose Work
Q: Please discuss mouth and nose work in Rolfing beyond the traditional seventh hour of the Ten Series. When would one consider it, whether elsewhere in the Ten Series, in post-ten work, or in advanced work? A: Dr. Rolf placed particular emphasis on the seventh-hour work. In her teaching she insisted that the object […]
Os Primeiros Anos
INTRODUÇÃO Por Lúcia Merlino Vinte anos atrás, um grupo de treze pessoas se unia para organizarfacilitar os estudos de um novofascinante método de abordagem corporal: o Rolfing. Nessa edição, você vai conhecer um pouco da história desses colegas, que com sua garradisposição, possibilitaram o florescimento do Rolfing no Brasil. Vamos voltar ainda um pouco atrás. […]
Conference Report
Editor’s Note: This article appeared in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies (2008) [12], pp. 3-6 and is reprinted with permission from Elsevier Publications at www.intl.elsevierhealth.com/journals/jbmt . The 2nd International Fascia Research Congress will be held at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 27-30, 2009. Registration will begin by October 2008. The research […]
Interview with Serge Gracovetsky, Ph.D.
Editor’s Note: Serge Gracovetsky will be a keynote speaker at the 2008 Rolf Institute® Annual Meeting, The Art and Science of Fascia. His presentation, From Fish to Man: the Story of the Human Spine will be held on August 1, 2008. He is the author of The Spinal Engine and was awarded “Best Paper Presentation” […]
On Core (and Sleeve) – reprint
…In which a review of existing theories leads to yet another theory; that, too, is rejected in favor of the priority of tradition; and the essay proceeds to an appeal for a return to Ida Rolf’s original formulation. But this is discovered to be ambiguous; and the essay concludes, inconclusively, with speculation as to what […]
The Core as a Coordination
Part of Ida Rolf’s genius was that she intuited many fundamental truths about human function long before there was any rigorous science to support them. This can be seen, for instance, in her belief in the central importance of the role of water metabolism in the plasticity of the connective tissue network (Rolf […]
Body as a Movement System
Ida P. Rolf formulated structural integration (SI) based on premises regarding the biochemical and biomechanical properties of fascia, and regarding the relationship of the Earth’s gravity field and the capacity of human beings to find normal posture. Neuro-scientific research and clinical observations of SI practitioners suggest that the logical explanations for why and how SI […]