A Larger Context
The overall focus of this letter is inclusive rather than exclusive, expansive rather than contractive. We feel strongly that, as a community, we must focus on the primary issues expressed in Jan’s letter rather than the semantics. (i.e. “fix-its”) An evolutionary process, such as Rolfing, includes functional reality (i.e.economy unemployment, inflation, the mere inability to […]
National Admissions Committee Changes
Tom Wing will no longer be serving on a regular basis on the Admissions Committee. He has agreed to be on call when needed. Tom has served for many years on Admissions both before it became organized as a national committee and also for the past four years. I have the highest esteem for his […]
Changing the Body and Its Image
Proponents of Structural Integration maintain that as a result of the introduction of specific stimuli to neuromuscular structures certain changes can be brought about in these structures which move the total organism in the direction of better spatial relationship of bodily parts and better total adjustment to the gravity field. These proponents further hold that […]
Some Thoughts on the Problem of Immunity – Part II
The first half of the following article appeared in the Summer 1970 issue of the Bulletin. There, Dr. Proby (an Irish osteopath who also uses techniques derived from Ida Rolf’s work) argued that immunization and vaccination as currently carried out may, despite their probable efficacy in some cases, ultimately do more harm than good. The […]
Psychotherapy by Somatic Alteration
When mind-body interactions are considered in psychotherapy, attention is usually directed to the effect of the “mind” on the body. Thus, unexpressed or unexamined feelings of resentment, for example, may be viewed as responsible for elevation of blood pressure or for migraine headache. To remove these “functional symptoms,” psychotherapy attempts to alter the “mind.” The […]
Personal Report
In the middle of May, just before training classes began at Big Sur, the Foundation held its first conference on research, attended by a mixture of 100 people from three different groups. Rolfers came whose interest stemmed from their professional work. People from various scientific disciplines who had been rolfed themselves came to seek out […]
The Erosion of Our Therapeutic Freedoms in the Twentieth Century
During the latter half of the nineteenth century few states in this country had strict medical licensing laws. During this period of therapeutic freedom the United States had its “Golden Age” of active therapeutic minorities and the American people had the benefit of many therapies. My own specialty of homeopathy, although first systematized in Germany, […]
Building a Rolfing Practice: the Results of a Survey
This report presents and analyzes the findings of a survey conducted among Rolfers in the Northeast Region in the Winter, 1982-83. The purposes of the survey were to obtain descriptive data on how successful Rolfers are in building their practices, and to determine the kinds of efforts that are most successful in practice building. Of […]
Food for Thought
Listed below is a series of questions for people who for one reason or another did not write the applicants’ paper. They are questions of general interest to all rolfers. Should anyone care to do research or meditation on these (or allied) subjects, the Bulletin will welcome the results. Describe the progression of hours in […]
Swedenborg’s Interpretation of the Human Body in the Light of Recent Research – Part II
The healing arts deal with universal principles, understandable, balanced, relatively unchanging, orderly, constructive, consecutive and true. Man and all things below him are consecutively created for USES on whatever plane or degree they occupy: mineral, plant, insect, animal and man. A knowledge of what is to be is inherent in the seed; the soul or […]