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 […]
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 […]