ABSTRACT Til Luchau, long-time Rolfer and director of Advanced-Trainings.com, discusses scoliosis in a wide-ranging interview that covers his influences, orientation toward working with scoliotic clients, working with teenagers, expectations, conventional treatments, and changing understanding of scoliosis towards a three-dimensional model.

Til Luchau is the Foundations of Bodywork Faculty Chair, and teaches the Skillful Touch and Therapeutic Relationship components of the FOB. He welcomes your correspondence and interest in the FOB, and can be reached at [email protected] or c/o the Rolf Institute.

Julie Diamond, Ph.D., worked with analyst/physicist ArnoldMindell (author of Working with the Dreaming Body, The Shaman’s Body, Sitting in the Fire, etc.) as one of the original founders of Process Work (or Process Oriented Psychology). In this interview from January 3rd, 1999, Julie talks about some of the basic ideas behind Process Work and gives examples of how they might be applied in private practice.I began studying Process Work with Arny Mindell in the mid-1980’s as a student of bodywork and body-centered therapies at Esalen. As I did, you will notice where the Process Work perspective differs from our own (for example, the emphasis on the psychological aspects of symptoms and experience), as well as the similarities we share (e.g., seeking the “self-correcting” capacity of the body). My hope is that both the differences and the similarities will prove stimulating and educational. As a Rolfer who also works as a psychotherapist, the dynamic interaction between these two modalities keeps me reflecting, growing, and refining my appreciation for each, in all their disparate and complimentary views, values, and methods.

I have a lot of clients who exhibit a valgus leg pattern. How much of this problem is typically due to the genetic structure and bony alignment, and how much is due to myofascial imbalance and faulty movement patterns? Are women, who naturally have wider hips than men, more predisposed to problems of this type? What are the general considerations and goals in working with these clients to help them achieve better structure and balance?