Rolfing Children with Cerebral Palsy
Wendy is very excited about what is happening: she has noticed significant changes in her body -not so much in her walking pattern as in her ability to move in certain ways and to perform tasks she was not able to do prior to her Rolfing. Although she thinks she will need more work before […]
Rolfing By The Numbers
I’ve been interested to discover that 1986 is very much related to the theme of our connectedness, as understood from the ancient science of numerology. This is a way of looking at the Rolf Institute as if it were an individual, and its date of incorporation as the date of birth. This was May 27, […]
Rolfing the Person Living with AIDS
AIDS is a complex phenomenon. On the one hand, it is just another disease. Just beyond the physical disease are questions and emotions arising from many levels . for anyone committed to healing work. Questions such as, how can I protect myself from infection? How can I prevent infections from spreading client to client? How […]
Theoretical Aspects and Implications of the Internal/External System
The typology of internal and external structure was first presented by Jan Sultan in the Notes on S.I. 86/1. It has been implemented in the practice of some Rolfers in various forms and has shown to help understanding structure better and therefore formulating goals for working in a structurally more pertinent manner. Its potential has […]
The Third Journey
As I reached the cliff top, laid before me was the ocean expanse and fragrance of wet sand. I wondered if my direction had been correct; scanned the beach below. At the edge of the river flowing out of the mountain into the ocean, I thought I made out a Form in motion. Yet as […]
Printed Advertising
I’m passing along some ideas about print advertising and a few more ads I’ve created recently. (They appear on the following page.) I am now rotating about ten different ads in the same weekly paper. They are producing the results I intended. By focusing primarily on “informal ads”, with a lot of content and high […]
Hand Stabilizers for Rolfers
Rolfers often work with their hands shaped in the “closed fist” configuration (see Figure 1). Experienced practitioners know this shape is susceptible to mechanical distortion, stress and pain. Pressure on the closed first tends to over flex knuckle joints and can drive fingernails into the palm of the hand (Figure 2). This can be very […]
The Temporo-Mandibular Joint in the Combined View of a Dentist and a Rolfer
Dentistry and Structural Integration approach the TMJ complex from quite different perspectives: While dentists focus primarily on pathology and the painful symptoms of this special area, Structural Integration considers the TMJ to be one unit which is interrelated by connective tissue components with all other segments of the body. Structural Integration aims for balance of […]
How Not to Hurt: Eight Methods to Delete Pain
All the stories revolved around pain, or so it seemed as my friends told of their rolling experiences. It made rile shy; but in the sessions, methods of processing pain soon evolved. It became fairly easy to strip away the horror of pain, by means of several different methods. Oddly, sometimes method 313 won’t work, […]
Olympic Runners Being Rolfed
The running study being, conducted at Arizona State University (ASU) is ready to begin. The pretesting of the three groups of ten subjects is completed. There will be a control group, a group receiving ten massages, and ten subjects being Rolfed. The thirty participants will all be elite runners, some of whom have qualified for […]