Jungian Psychology and Rolfing
BH: You’ve gone in a particular direction with the question of Rolling and psychotherapy…. NF: I had a relatively difficult childhood. I was on the couch in psycho analysis tit New York when I was nineteen, the locus then being that I had been in and out of four different colleges. It was very important […]
Gravity, Lift, and Inertia – Part II
LIFT IN THE BODY Perhaps a close look at the ways living organisms have solved the problems of gravity can teach us about physics in action. A recent article by Rolfer Austin McElroy’ explains the concept of lift as it applies to the Rolf work. His model, reproduced here in Figure 1,demonstrates with helium balloons […]
Therapy Balls and Rolfing
Introducing therapy balls into my Rolfing sessions has proved to be somewhat like Jonathan Jo’s wheelbarrow full of surprises. They provide unexpected solutions to a wide range of the structural challenges we see in our offices. I was pleased to learn following my presentation at last year’s Annual Meeting that many Rolfers already have a […]
Perception and the Cognitive Theory of Life:
When it comes to the practice of Rolfing®, it is not much of an exaggeration to say perception is everything. One of the most important and difficult skills that every Rolfer must learn is the ability to “see.” The problem of teaching students to perceive the whole person in accordance with our five taxonomies of […]
The Electromagnetic Approach to Rolfing
THE BASICS I have been asked to explain what I mean by “direct electromagnetic Rolfing.” Here is a more or less off the-cuff explanation. The body mind is not so much material as materializing. Structure does not exist independently of bioelectric activity, it only appears to in death and dissection. Moreover, living structure as such […]
Central Nervous System Processing in Idiopathic Scoliosis
There are two kinds of scoliosis: neuromurcular (associated with a known neuromuscular disease like cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy) and idiopathic. Idiopathic is a two-dollar word meaning. ” we don’t flow why,” and probably more than half of the cases are idiopathic. There art- thousands of teenagers and sometimes older adults, having major spinal surgery […]
Every Move We Make
I confess: Rolfing® gives me a rationale for teaching movement. It was Ida Rolf’s insights about movement, conveyed in a demonstration in a Brentwood church basement in 1968, that inspired me to take off my dancing shoes and start using my hands. It was clear that this gnarled old woman knew more about what makes […]
Advanced Rolfing: Activating Core Energy
On April 28th I returned from a six-week advanced studies program at the Rolf Institute in Boulder, Colorado The Rolf institute is the school that Dr. Ida P. Rolf founded for the purpose of training and certifying Rolfers, doing research into the long-term benefits of Rolfing and its benefits to the society- at-large, and as […]
Letter from John Hammer
I am writing in reference to what Dr. Silverman calls putting the “center line” in the structure of the Rolf Institute. Up to the present the Rolf Institute has not assumed the responsibility of editing written articles and papers on Rolfing before reprinting them. Nor has the Institute taken the position of authority of printing […]
Movements that Rolf – Part I
I would like to call your attention to the possibility of “MOVEMENTS THAT ROLF”. Until now, as a community, we have been involved with many issues concerning movement, and this article is in no way a comment on any of that history. Rather this is a communication of a fact that becomes more and more […]