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 […]
Specialty Pad Provides Comfort
I want to share with my colleagues what I consider to be an advancement in Rolfing technology. Breakthroughs being rare, this may be the most recent since rising from the floor onto the Rolfmg table. I want to recommend the use of foam, corrugated (“egg-carton”) sleeping pads placed over the mat you already have on […]
The Line, the Midline, the Postural Curve and Problems of Stance
Ida Rolf’s discovery of gravity as the major physical factor determining the shape of the body, its structure, culminates in the extremely simple block model. It demonstrates that the alignment of all segmental gravity centers, which should optimally be vertical, is the most succinct indicator for the degree of integrity or its lack in a […]
The Garden
Once upon a tine, when the science and art of gardening was not yet well established among men, there was a master gardener. In addition to knowing all the qualities of plants, their nutritious, medicinal and aesthetic values, he had been granted a know ledge of the Herb of Longevity, and he lived for many […]
Crior and Collapse – Part I: How We React to Trauma
All sentient beings that I have observed react to trauma in specific, predictable patterns: to the extent they are able, they withdraw; to the extent they are unable to withdraw, they collapse. Poke an amoeba, an elephant or a human and it will immediately pull away; poke it hard enough and it will break down. […]