ABSTRACT The notes taken by Byron Gentry in a class with Ida Rolf circa 1955 give a bird’s-eye view into the evolution of the Rolfing ten-session series (or ‘Recipe’) and the thinking of Dr. Rolf. Archivist Jeff Linn discusses the ‘Gentry Notes’ as the first historical documents that can be relied on in explaining the development of structural integration (SI) as opposed to what might be called hearsay evidence previously.

ABSTRACT We present a transcription of what are among the earliest available notes detailing Ida Rolf’s ten-session series, as she taught it in the mid-1950s under the name of Postural Integrity and as preserved by Byron Gentry, DC, an early student. The notes were re-typed for clarity, with introductory comments added and an image from the archival originals. Rolf and Gentry became great friends, and over the years shared a regular and voluminous correspondence. We include a scan of a letter Rolf wrote to Gentry, less for content than as a document of their friendship and mutual regard.

ABSTRACT This serves as an introduction to and commentary on the significance of the next article, “Fascial Tissue Research in Sports Medicine: From Molecules to Tissue Adaptation, Injury and Diagnostics: Consensus Statement.”

Author’s Note: This article is the second part of “The Art of Rolfing SI and The Art of Sculpture” which appeared in the March 2017 issue. In 1978, when I was thirty years old, I was in therapy (art therapy) and received the Ten Series. Almost immediately, my orientation changed from being an intellectual and a scholar to being a physical laborer, doing construction and furniture moving but also art and sculpture. In light of the theme of this issue, “Rolfing SI, Psyche, and Consciousness,” I decided to reduce my personal viewpoint from this article so that elements of transformation that I underwent might be understood more analytically and objectively. My personal aim is to understand what happened to me almost forty years ago and my hope is that this approach will illuminate for the reader the fascinating and mysterious relationship between SI and psychological growth. The artwork included is meant not to illustrate any of the ideas discussed but simply to record a personal journey and to evoke a feeling.