Stress-Reduction Speaks to Media

Recently my Rolfing colleague Owen Marcus and I have received some media attention when one of the local TV stations wanted to approach Rolfing from the point of view of stress reduction. So I called John Cottingham and asked him what I could legitimately say about stress reduction on the basis of his research. What […]

Alongamentos Estruturais

INTRODUÇÃO Logo após minha graduação em Psicologia Clínica, em 1973, participei de um grupo de estudos com o Dr. Gaiarsa, em São Paulo, Brasil. Pela primeira vez, então, meus olhos se abriram para a importância da propriocepção na senso-percepção, na auto-imagemna auto-estima, assim como em sua aplicação no trabalho com a transformação(1). Em 1981, conclui […]

Contribuição da Integraçnao Estrutural Rolfing® para o Equilíbrio Postural, na Locomoção e na Qualidade de Vida de Adulto Portador de Paralisia Cerebral

Contribuição da Integração Estrutural Rolfing® para o Equilíbrio Postural, na Locomoçãona Qualidade de Vida de Adulto Portador de Paralisia Cerebral CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO ÍTALO BRASILEIRO CURSO DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM INTEGRAÇÃO ESTRUTURAL ROLFING® ROSÂNGELA MARIA BAÍA CONTRIBUIÇÃO DA INTEGRAÇÃO ESTRUTURALROLFING® PARA O EQUILÍBRIO POSTURAL, NA LOCOMOÇÃO E NA QUALIDADE DE VIDA DE ADULTO PORTADOR DE PARALISIA CEREBRAL […]

Observations on Sultan’s Body Classification System

I would like to share with you some observations about the relationships of myofascial tensions in the head to what happens below. I remember in my introductory anatomy class, Louis Schultz told a story about Ida. Louis and two other anatomy teachers were doing a dissection to better understand the structure of fascia (rather than […]

Il Rolfing ed i Suoi Aspetti Comuni Alla Dottrina Omeopatica

Omeopatia Rolfing: due discipline a confronto L’Omeopatia È la dottrina concepita dal medico Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), che intuì il principio per cui i pazienti devono essere trattati con quei rimedi che nel soggetto sano hanno prodotto sintomi simili a quelli che essi lamentano. Hahnemann definì la propria medicina ?omeopatia? contrapposta alla ?allopatia?, intendendo che ?per […]

The Need to Know

It is the privilege of the newcomer to question the basic concepts of the new field, (and) I once wrote and tried to prove that the tensegrity model is no correct anatomical model. Then the only reaction in Rolf Lines was a letter consisting of one word: “Phew” I am not a total newcomer anymore, […]

Effects of Soft Tissue Mobilization (Rolfing Pelvic Lift) on Parasympathetic in Two Age Groups

Mobilization of the bony pelvis and the surrounding soft tissues has been used in medical practice since the beginning of recorded history. Ancient Chinese, Egyptian, and Greek medical accounts all describe pelvic manipulations and associated changes in breathing, arterial pulse, body temperature, and muscle tone(1). Several schools of manual therapy, including chiropractic, osteopathic, and Rolfing, […]

As Fases da Capsulite Adesiva do Ombro com o Método IE Rolfing®

As Fases da Capsulite Adesiva do Ombro com o Método IE Rolfing® This case study sought to verify the effects of Rolfing® Structural Integration on clients in three stages of adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder: acute or “freezing”, “frozen” and “thawing”. Ruggi (2011) had already shown good results with this form of treatment on one […]

A Rolfian Review of Anatomy

in The Beginning: Growth In The Womb-World The moment of conception is creation of life. Within two weeks, the germ cell has become an embryo with three basic germ layers: the ectoderm, the mesoderm, and the endoderm. This is not unlike a star birth in outer space in which the gaseous nebula later condenses into […]