Rolfing in a Psychiatric Facility
Bill Harvey You’re doing something that as far as I can [ell has only been theorized about with anecdotal data here and there, but You’re actually Rolfing people in a psychiatric setting. You are actually confronting mental problems, along with a psychologist, simultaneously. Bill Short: That’s true, we talked about this whale thing, early on […]
Weightlifting and Rolfing
Bill: You lift weights? Judee: I do. Not the way I used to. I’ve been part of the weight training world for quite a few years. That’s what I did actually before I started the training to become a Rolfer. Bill: Did you compete? Judee: That was a partial goal actually. I ran a fitness […]
Reframing Pain
As Maturana and Varela, and before them, Jean Plaget’, have pointed out, perception is action. We do not passively open our doors of perception to let the information flow in. We actively do something to perceive and thus cannot help but get caught in a loop of creating perceptions and perceiving creations. In this process […]
Interview with Steve Hancoff
Bill Harvey: You are into Core Energetics? Steve Hancoff: Yeah, at this point I’m on the faculty of the Core Energetics Institute in New York, and I’m assisting one of the senior teachers in the new school in Atlanta. In February 1999 I’ll have workshops in Israel. BH: How does one get to be on […]
Landscapes of Spirit in Rolfing
During the last six years, I have experienced living and Rolfing in Guatemala, then being asked to apprentice to Elena Avila, a Curandera of 20 years in New Mexico (whose book on Curanderismo, Woman Who Glows in the Dark, in which Rolfing is mentioned, will be printed in the spring). From her teaching, I was […]
Reflections on the São Paulo Ambulatory Project
HOW THE PROJECT WAS CONCEIVED It all started at the Brazilian Annual Meeting in January, 1998. Some of us were discussing the social function of Rolfing®, our visions for the future of the work, and how the work might be expanded beyond our private practices. At the same time, we considered new ways of promoting […]
A Gift Certificate Program
In the Summer of 1989, the three of us in Rolfing Associates, Inc. of South Burlington, Vermont (Thom Walker, Iginia Boccalandra and I), experimented with a one-time “Gift Certificate Program” as a practice-building strategy. The program worked wed and led to an interesting next step. A description follows: The gift certificate was given to clients […]
Letter to Rolf Lines
MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543 April 2, 1982 Dear Friends, A little over a year ago, at a meeting in Boulder of the Natural Sciences Subcommittee, Dean and Laurie Rolfings announced the formation of the Aspen Research Institute (ARI). I want to report to you some of the work that has been initiated […]
Explorations
As a starter, I want to try to answer one of our favorite questions: “What is Rolfing?” There are many points of view from which one might attempt to answer this question, and this time around I want to give a philosophical answer. Let me begin by offering a definition of freedom that I worked […]
Structural Awareness, Part II
The goals of Structural Aware-ness are the same as Dr. Rolf’s goals for Structural Integration. The difference lies in the methods employed. Technique aside, there can be tremendous similarities in the philosophical approach, conceptualizations, personal interaction, and values held. It is possible that Dorothy Nolte created Structural Awareness as a system to contain, preserve, and […]