The Case Study Method: Scientific exploration of Rolfing® SI in the Holistic Paradigm
Introduction
Structural Integration is a broad field, and we now have multiple schools that honor this work with
a common heritage and an individualized inquiry; practitioners from these schools have been working
to legitimize this work, which is derived from Dr. Rolf, in the scientific field. Recent developments in understanding the nature and behavior of fascia have helped us all to deepen our understanding of how and why it is that structural integration works. The following is an article that relates the effort being carried out in Brazil by the ABR. We hope that it can encourage many other schools and fellow practitioners to investigate and write about what their particular approach to structural integration is producing. Not only do our commonalities need to be recorded, but also our special differences deserve highlighting. In the following studies, investigations have been carried out according to the approaches that are specific to the Rolf Institute® and its members in Brazil. I’m sure that as more of us investigate and write, our identity and differences will be perceived more clearly, which will help further the creative spirit that is inherent to the practice of structural integration.
[The following article first appeared in Structural Integration: The Journal of the Rolf Institute®, Vol. 39,
No. 2, December 2011.]
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