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 […]
The Re-Constructive Use of Pain
What of pain as a factor in psychological and physiological evolution? How much is known about pain, and the larger syndrome of stress to which it belongs? How does it function in the learning process, in the development of the self concept, in inhibition, in consciousness? Can it be used constructively to facilitate deep-seated personality […]
A Personal Interpretation of Rolf Work
It is assumed that human perception of life and subsequent behavior can be changed by inner movement manifesting outward (decision to action) or by outward changes manifesting inward (action to feelings). Both are required, at appropriate times, in my opinion, to develop creative potential. My time spent with two analysts in 10 years was not […]
Mechanisms of Perception: Their Development & Function
The perceptual basis of all motor activity includes all known senses. However, this discussion will be restricted to those perceptual mechanisms which are universally concerned with performing motor activity, eliminating occasional sensory participants in motor activity such as taste, audition, and other senses not ordinarily concerned with motor activity. The physiological mechanisms which are universal […]
The Story of Fire
Once upon a time a man was contemplating the ways in which Nature operates, and he discovered, because of his concentration and application, how fire could be made. This man was called Nour. He decided to travel from one community to another, showing people his discovery. Nour passed the secret to many groups of people. […]
Rolfing
The first purpose of this article is to present a brief description of Rolfing, its purpose and the results that it achieves. The second, more fully developed purpose, is to uncover and explore some prevalent assumptions about human bodies which art not often brought fully to consciousness and so are not fully examined. These assumptions, […]
Fascia
Fascia is the name for any of a wide variety of connective tissues. It develops from the mesoderm and is distributed extensively throughout the body, providing a kind of “packing” for muscles, bones and vessels. The two kinds of fascia that most concern the Structural Integration practitioner are superficial fascia and deep fascia which are […]
Structural Integration and Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt therapy emphasizes “awareness” and “focusing on the obvious”. in working with people our existential message can be paraphrased: “come to your senses”, or “lose your mind and gain your senses” as Fritz Perls outs it. Coming to one’s senses” is synonymous with coming to one’s body. There are no senses in the cortex, or […]
Discharge Freeing Past Failures
The Rolf practitioner must become skilled at recognising all forms of discharge, both emotional and physical. Often the psychology of the discharge, the emotional outpouring (generally in a vocal form) is the most dramatic, and the most obvious. However, the physical expressions the soreness, pains, chemical changes that would be manifest either in sweating or […]