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 […]
Don Hazen: In memoriam and appreciation
Don Hazen: In memoriam and appreciation Don Hazen: In Memoriam and Appreciation Libby Eason Don Hazen, DC, Certified Advanced Rolfer™, passed away on August 2, 2011, after a threeyear ordeal with throat cancer, at the age of 67. He lived and practiced in El Cerrito, CA and is survived by his wife of 32 years, […]
Exploring Our Legacy
The Source Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) was raised in a wealthy Polish aristocratic family. As a highly educated engineer and Russian Army officer, he survived his wounds while serving on the horrific battlefields of World War I. In 1915 he was ordered first to Canada, and, in 1917, transferred to New York to serve as a […]
DFA Somatic Pattern Recognition
In this paper I would like to present my understanding of how the Duggan/French Approach (DFA) to Somatic Pattern Recognition fits into the family of Structural Integration and of the aspects that make DFA work different from the original SI as developed by Dr. Ida P. Rolf. I will try to describe our intervention, called […]
Fascial Fitness: Fascia oriented training for bodywork and movement therapies
Fascial Fitness: Fascia oriented training for bodywork and movement therapiesDivo G. Müller and Robert Schleip Divo G. Müller is one of the first internationally authorized Continuum teachers in Europe since 1992. She is a Somatic Experience practitioner and author of a book, numerous articles, and DVDs, all of which teach a specially designed movement approach […]
The Case Study Method: Scientific exploration of Rolfing® SI in the Holistic Paradigm
The Case Study Method: Scientific exploration of Rolfing® SI in the Holistic Paradigm Introduction Structural Integration is a broad field, and we now have multiple schools that honor this work with a common heritage and an individualized inquiry; practitioners from these schools have been working to legitimize this work, which is derived from Dr. Rolf, […]