Further Thoughts on Femur Rotation and the Hip Flexors Psoas and Iliacus
The effect of the hip flexors iliacus and psoas on rotation of the femur is significant in understanding structural patterns and developing effective bodywork strategies. Robert Schleip’s lecture notes (Schleip, 1988) suggests that hip flexors medially rotate the femur. Schleip focuses on the psoas primarily, but his argument is equally true for iliacus as well […]
Interview with Les Kertay
Bill Harvey: So you’re a clinical psychologist as well as a Rolfer? Les Kertay: Yes. BH: Do you just break it up half and half time wise? Or do your practices overlap? LK: Well, the answer to that question is still forming. I do some fairly straightforward Rolfing®, probably between 30 and 40 percent of […]
Refrying Freyette
Before continuing the discussion of Dr. Harrison Freyette’s laws of spinal Motion, I want to express toy appreciation to Robert Schleip and Jeff Mainland for devoting time In tackling the thorns subject of spinal biomechanics and sharing their knowledge with how Rolf Lines readers. Any undertaking to apply mechanical laws to human structures particularly the […]
Working with Health Clubs
My initial success in introducing people to Rolfing through their health clubs was notably unspectacular. Several health clubs in our area are accustomed to having independent professionals offer presentations on health issues to their members inside the club, and it was not difficult to have Rolfing incorporated in a series that might have included nutrition […]
Building a Post-10 Rolfing Practice
An underdeveloped area for service and practice building for many Rolfers is the post-10 practice. Increasely, I have found the post-l0 part of my practice to be a valuable on-going service to clients a source of considerable satisfaction to me; a valuable way to develop my Rolfing skills; and a significant numerical part of my […]
Synesthesia
While demonstrating a Rolfing® technique during an alternate modalities class, a strong distinctive odor was emitted by my model as her tissue released under my hands. Commenting on this olfactory eructation, I was asked to describe it. My spontaneous reply: “It smells yellow!” Naturally, this elicited puzzled expressions and a confused silence. I explained that […]
Toward the Further Reachings of Rolfing…
Dear Colleagues: Studying physical reality has long been recognized as essential in understanding the nature of human existence. And so it should be. Everything is made out of the same basic stuff, is ultimately born of the same source, and so is part of a fundamental unity. Understanding certain aspects of reality are particularly important […]
Movements that Rolf – Part II
A while back I wrote an article for Rolf Lines about the organization of connective tissue in stripes which run between the acupuncture meridians. I was inspired by Robert Schleip’s article about having clients move while we Rolf. I had many successes with it. The idea popped. into my mind of how to combine movement […]
On Hanging Tough Under Your Bushel Basket
Placing this article in the entrepreneur’s column” is a bit of a misnomer and for those of you with full practices, I bid you to move along elsewhere in this issue. The folks who are starving are the ones I’m interested in reaching. Newly certified Rolfers confront a very challenging paradox in starting up their […]
The Biomechanics of the Thoracolumbar Fascia
Introduction In biomechanical terms, the cardinal process involved in lifting is the balancing of moments. Gravity acting on the trunk and any weight to be lifted exerts a forward bending moment on the trunk. To raise the trunk, and thereby the weight, this moment must be balanced and overcome by a backward bending moment, and […]