1978 Children’s Project and Advanced Class
In our experience, Ida Rolf was a scientist, a philosopher, and a poet. With her hands she put “Ideas of Order” into human bodies. As Rollers, these Ideas have been placed deep into the contours of our minds. In 1978, Ida Rolf again worked her way through an entire cycle of teaching through the Children?s […]
Rolfing: Therapy or Education?
My Dear Colleagues, In my view, the work we do has reached the place where expansion of our scope is imperative. The stance that Dr. Rolf took in placing this work as education rather than therapy was, in part, motivated by the political climate in which it developed. During those early years, the alternative (to […]
Philosophy and Techniques of Gestalt Therapy
A basic assumption of Gestalt therapy is that an individual’s own existing inner resources are adequate to cone with his Problems and conflicts once these are utilized and brought into effective action This therapeutic approach, then, relies on the existing potentials within the patient at the time he seeks therapy. The therapeutic process is directed […]
Fragments of a Whole Process
Dear Dr. Rolf. I am grateful for what the (Structural Integration) processing has done for me ? Please forgive the subjectivity and please forgive the writing of fragments of a whole process that has been taking place in me. Some of the following may seem like “old stuff” to you by now, but it is […]
The Body and Its Uses – The Gurdjieff System
We can be aware of being present “here and now”. This awareness may be experienced indirectly as a thought “about” presence and it can also be experienced directly “as” presence. The second mode is irreducible to any simpler or more immediate mode of experiencing. Thus a tooth ache is “here and now” and does not […]
The Concept of Strength
What is strength? When we say that an individual is strong, what do we mean? That he can lift 200 lbs., dance a full evening-length ballet, run twenty miles, or live 100 years? The capacity to do one of these things does not in It self convey the ability to do any of the others. […]
The Vertical: Experimental Side to Human Potential
Like so many teachers, some of them very close to home, I complain that people do not seem to understand my basic goals, the fundamental purposes for which Rolling has been developed. In an effort to lessen this type of frustration, I offer the following summary of Rolling developments. purposes, and ideas. Rolfing Develops Potential […]
Requieum pour une Grande Dame
New York City, October 1972. The wide stage ob Carnegie Hall. A packed house here to see a white-haired lady, affectionately known as “the elbow,” give a lecture. Stout and small, imperious in her gait and demeanor, she struts up and down the aisles, gesturing broadly in annoyance of the poor organization of the event. […]
Toward More Effective Manipulative Management of Chronic Myofascial Strain and Stress Syndromes
Osteopathy began as one man’s dissatisfaction with the philosophy and methodology of treating human ills in vogue at the time he practiced the healing arts. (1) (2) The early success and acceptance which Andrew Taylor Still and his students achieved was the result of utilizing new applications of basic principles long known, but infrequently used. […]
Resource Service
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