Research Project Updates
UpdatesPhase I Cottingham / Porges Article Published in Physical Therapy Journal Enclosed with this Rolf Lines is a reprint of our first article that appeared in the March 1988 issue of Physical Therapy, the journal of the American Physical Therapy Association. This article is based on the results of the first investigation (Phase I – […]
Muscle Repositioning: A New Verifiable Approach to Neuro-Myofascial Release?
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13608592 Muscle Repositioning: A New Verifiable Approach to Neuro-Myofascial Release? The clinical observation of involuntary motor activity during application of a particular style of myofascial release (Muscle Repositioning—MR) has led to the hypothesis that this technique might evoke neurological reactions. Preliminary EMG recordings presented here show involuntary tonic cervical erector action during MR. Involuntary eye movements were also observed. […]
Neuromuscular Structuring of Human Energy
First I would like to put my subject into a large framework by reviewing the major emphasis in science today. For over a hundred years science was primarily involved in the manipulation of exact measurements, attempting to discover the very elemental facts and properties of matter. In the Twentieth century the emphasis has shifted. Measurement […]
The Feminine Principle in Healing
It is a common practice among male shamans in primitive cultures to dress as women during healing rituals. They believe that women are more able to connect with the healing forces of the spirits that lie within the psyche. In the practice of male dominated western medicine, extremely aggressive “masculine” techniques are applied to body […]
New Rolfing Book Published
Brian W. Fahey, Ph.D., Adv. Certified Rolfer (Albuquerque, New Mexico) is pleased to announce publication of The Power of Balance: A Rolfing View of Health by Metamorphous Press, Inc., Portland, Oregon. By late Autumn, the book is expected to be in stores, as well as available for purchase from the Rolf Institute’s Boulder Headquarters. Containing […]
Having Your Image Work for You
The word “image? has gotten a bad rap in the past few years with such books as Dress of Success, and we often think of image as being what the stereotyped car salesmen try to have and chiropractors never do. The image we as Rolfers and Rolfing Movement Teachers project is what the public sees. […]
What Is Rolfing About?
In general mankind has subscribed to the idea that even though they must acknowledge their apparent animal origin in relation, they nevertheless feel themselves unique in Ix wing, as they think, “upright.” The idea of “upright” has a value to humans such that it is used not only to apply to the physical body, but […]
Humans are Hydraulically Designed Technologies
More than 50 percent by both volume and weight of the average physical structure and mechanics of all biological species on our planet consists of water”, Bucky Fuller writes in his last and most important work, Critical Path. This fact is important to Rolfers if we compare this scientific data to the fact that humans’ […]
Second Article Published in Physical Therapy Journal
Enclosed with Rot f Lines is a reprint of our second article appearing in the September 1988 issue of Physical Therapy, The Journal of the American Physical Therapy Association. Co-authored by Stephen W. Porges, Kent Richmond, and myself, the article describes our 1987 investigation, a clinical-oriented study demonstrating that a single post-ten Rolfing session can […]
Sobre Celso Nunes
Muitos de nós rolfistas ainda não encontramos a própria maneira de falar sobre o Rolfing. Alguns de nós, quando o fazemos, temos a fala impregnada com certo embaraço, timidez ou relutância. Diferente disso é o testemunho de Celso Nunes, nosso colega, que hoje residepratica em Florianópolis. Sem hesitações ou travas, ao contrário, com entusiasmogrande riqueza […]