Post-Impressions
CYNTHIA ALLEN WRITES: “Treatment with Dr. Ida Rolf, June 23, 1969” I arrived via several helping hands and strong backs in the living roan where Dr. Rolf teaches. There were about ten students there having a coffee break. They seemed an unusually open, friendly and supportive group. Dr. Rolf looked me over and said that […]
How to Chance Whole Systems
The following principles are without exception lifted from Dr. Ida Rolf’s Practitioners’ Course, although the organization (and, in some cases, the general statement of a principle) is my own. The principles seem to me impressively generals I think that EACH ONE applies to each stroke_ a rolfer makes, to what a roller does in the […]
Bibliographical Afterthoughts on the Alexandrian Movement
Alexander’s work is very much alive in this country today. I can think or at least three good reasons why this should be true. The first is the basic soundness of Alexander’s observations on the nature of habituated response patterns both conditioned and unconditioned reflex behaviors. His method actually offers a way out of the […]
The Therapist as Gravity
It occurred to me as I spent some time reflecting on this morning’s session that as much as I appreciated what had been going on around here, there was a point at which a proverbial forest hadn’t been recognized for the proverbial trees. This is what 1 would like to bring to your attention at […]
Getting More from Your Rolfing
I have just been through the ten sessions of rolling! The experience has been an interesting and exhilarating one: it’s been a time of rebirth and rediscovery for my self. As a person who had always lived much more in my head than in my body, I would like to share with any readers who […]
Interview with Ida Rolf
R: What would you like to know about aging ? How you do it ? Q: I’d like to know how you call yourself what words do you use to describe the place you are in your life right now ? R: I don’t know. I’m not at all certain of your question. Q: Do […]
Pelvic Tilt and Coxarthrosis
I want to tell you of a booklet that has only appeared in German but could be of interest to all Rolfers. Its title is “Das Aufrechte Stehen” – “Standing Upright”. It is by two manual therapists who have worked to make these techniques acceptable to traditional medicine: Dr. med. Gottfried Gutmann and Dr. med. […]
Exercise
Reams of paper are covered these days in honor of one of our newer American Gods ’96 Physical Fitness. Unfortunately, much of this paper is wasted because the concepts advanced are misconceptions, misunderstandings of the actual physical structure of bodies. This lack of understanding exists on the levels of both professional and lay devotees. The […]
New Thoughts on the Alexander Technique
The Alexander Technique attempts to achieve balance in physical structure and movements very much like that which is the Foal of Structural Integration. Unlike Structural Integration, however, the Alexander Technique seeks to achieve this balance not by realigning the body structure directly, but rather by evoking appropriate patterns of movement through the use of imagery […]
The Cranium
The outermost covering or protector of the brain is the cranium which includes its bony structure, scalp, and hair. This bony fortification and bulwark of the cranium protects and limits the brain’s motion, for being a living structure, it expands and contracts in the same manner as does any other living cell or organ. The […]