Principles of Adaptive Alignment and their Application in the Assessment of Frozen Shoulders and Problem Thumbs
Principles of Adaptive Alignment and their Application in the Assessment of Frozen Shoulders and Problem Thumbs
Fascia Research Creates Opportunities for Community and Personal Growth
Bethany Ward, MBA, BCSICM, CARTM, is a Rolf Movement® practitioner and instructor at the Rolf Institute® of Structural Integration. Past-president and current board member of the Ida P. Rolf Research Foundation, she serves on the International Fascia Research Congress Steering Committee. A self-proclaimed fascia geek, Ward can’t stop talking about fascia and structural integration—whether […]
Reiki and Structural Integration
Reiki Initiation and Structural Integration Training Thirty years ago, I encountered a fascinating system of energy healing called Reiki. Japanese in origin, it is a practice of receiving, channeling, and giving life-force energy to create balance and healing in any living thing. During my first degree Reiki initiation, I felt myself receiving an infusion of […]
Structural Integration as a Model Craft
We will explore the educational path in Structural Integration and compare it to the path taken in a craft guild. Parallels between the two educational models are explored. I would like to examine how we can learn something so challenging, profound, and revolutionary as Structural Integration and how we can learn it in such a […]
The Lateral Intermuscular Septum Complex of the Fascia Lata:
The Lateral Intermuscular Septum Complex of the Fascia Lata: FULL TEXT: click “download”
Foundations of Structural Integration: What I’ve learned in 33 years of Rolfing®
Foundations of Structural Integration: What I’ve learned in 33 years of Rolfing® Foundations of Structural Integration: What I’ve Learned in 33 Years of Rolfing® Ritchie Mintz Ritchie Mintz is a Certified Advanced Practitioner of Rolfing® Structural Integration. Trained at the Rolf Institute® in 1978, he has decades of experience straightening human frames and aligning bodies […]
Research and Relevance: Sometimes the Best Answer is a Question
Emily developed her love of the natural world and science while growing up in Austin, Texas. She has been a bodyworker since 2000, and began her Rolfing® training in Germany, where she and her husband Chuck lived for six years. Emily is a Board Certified Structural IntegratorCM and Certified Advanced RolferTM with a Rolfing practice […]
Points of Departure
<center>Globalocal</center> To declare a prejudice from the outset, I am an avid proponent of the holistic and educational aspect of Ida Rolf?s work.(1) Structural Integration is, as she herself said, in the line of Asklepios, not in the line of Hippocrates.(2) Structural Integration is one jewel on a long necklace that links our daily work […]
The Self and Gravity: An Evolutionary Process from the Ideas of Ida Rolf and C.G.Jung(1)
<center>The Self and Gravity</center> We differentiate and evolve when we become integrated within the gravitational field and to our vertical impulse. To quote Dr. Rolf: ?Whenever life differentiates towards a greater, more complex degree of order, the upwards thrust becomes more apparent and more significant.?(2) According to Dr. Jung, during the process of individuation, we […]
Fascial Stretch Therapy? and SI:
Fascial Stretch Therapy™ and SI: New innovations for practice Chris Frederick Chris Frederick has been an SI practitioner since 2004 and a physical therapist since 1989. He is co-director and a lead instructor with his wife, Ann Frederick, of the Stretch to Win Institute where multidisciplinary manual therapy professionals are trained and certified in Fascial […]