The Jungle Gym: An Inquiry into Fitness
This article is an introduction to an on-going inquiry into what we know and can say about fitness. The inquiry is the Jungle Gym, developed by Emilie Conrad Da’oud. The Jungle Gym is a contribution to the evolution of a biologically based, self-reflexive model of exercise and fitness. The Gym has evolved out of the […]
Integral Anatomy, Part I
Bill: I think everybody who has come in contact with Roger Jordan’s article on dissection and Robert Shleip’s notes on a dissection posted on the Rolf Forum has really benefited from what you have single-handedly brought to our community which are these dissection courses. How did this happen? How is it that you get bodies? […]
The Ethics of Touch
What constitutes ethics in a helping relationship? What is ethical touch? These are questions that have accompanied me for thirty years, first as a recipient of Rolfing®, later as a Rolfer and still later as a teacher of Rolfing. In this time I have seen, experienced, heard of and done many things that I now […]
Remarks About Structure Starting from an Aesthetic Point of View
When I first began working as a Rolfer, it was in a center where, as well as doctors, there was a beauty department. So I often happened to work with women who had difficulty in accepting their physical aspect. While I tried to motivate these people to feel and to perceive their bodies and not […]
The Somatics Study Group
The second annual Colloquium on Somatics Inquiry, conducted by the Somatics Study Group, will be held at CIIS on Friday and Saturday, March 9th and 10th, 2001. It is open to the members of the Somatics Study Group, the panel of judges, and those whose papers are selected for presentation. At that time, the second […]
A Hands On Strategy
The heart of this article is a chart which describes, for a full working week in August, 1992, each action I took that week to build my practice. By actual count, there were 24 such activities. This number does not include calls I made that did not result in a direct conversation with someone, scheduling […]
Dialogs on Gravity Kinesthetics
From Christopher Veck and Adjo Zorn Dear Editor In Rolf Lines 1/1997 there was an article called “Structure in Free Float” by Liz Gaggini. The author tried to open the perspective of a new understanding of Rolfing using concepts of Einstein’s General theory of relativity. Being physicists and Rolfers we consider this article to […]
Twenty Years with Rolf Movement
It has been twenty years since I began my practice in Rolf Movement Integration (RMI). Over the years the work has grown and matured, as has our understanding of Ida’s vision, which involved seeing the individual as a whole person. As Vivian Jaye says, “The way a person walks across a room is the way […]
The Further Reachings of Rolfing….
Dear Colleagues, I have been feeling compelled to share some observations and ideas I’ve had relative to the nature of the work that we do as Rolfers, so here goes… After fifty or one hundred Rolfing sessions, it becomes increasingly clear that a particular pattern of tension is continuing to manifest because something has still […]
In Support of Life
I began working with people with AIDS in mid-1985, volunteer ring massage therapy through a local AIDS health service organization. I provided the service at no cost on the condition that the client come tome. My limit was two hours per week, first come, first served. I worked at that time with seven actively sick […]