A singer shares how her work with Rolfer and Rolf Movement Practitioner Bibiana Badenes helped her recover from significant polytrauma caused by a motor vehicle accident. The rehabilitative work, even when different than traditional Rolfing® Structural Integration, was based in the Rolfing Principles of Intervention.

This article first discusses the sensory and functional qualities of the human hand; Bibianna Badenes uses sensorial words that illustrate the expansive qualities of the hand. Second the reader is invited into a series of hand movement interventions to support self-care for the hands of Rolfers and all hard-working hands.

ABSTRACT The authors dialogue about scoliosis, the personal impact of having scoliosis, and how they have used their own bodies through self-experimentation to develop Rolfing Structural Integration and Rolf Movement techniques to bring clients into greater body awareness, ease, and efficiency in movement. With two perspectives – Ward works mainly with adults, and Badenes with teenagers individually and in groups – they offer insights that support experimentation and improvement in how we work with clients with scoliosis.