The Pelvic Floor
In preparing for this paper, I was disturbed by the manner in which traditional works of anatomy and physiology divide the body into different systems which are then studied and explored separately. In India I have seen temples which have grown up over the course of centuries. Originally built to protect and contain an innermost […]
Report on the Pilot Project
In November 1990 we certified ten new Rolfers, who graduated from our first Rolfing/Rolfing Movement integrated training, also called the Pilot Project. There has been much discussion and many questions about the Pilot Project. I offer this report to answer some of these questions and let the community know how it went. The first portion […]
In Profile… Jeff Maitland
BILL: What wonderful anecdotes do you have to tell us about Ida? JEFF: I never met Ida; I can’t tell Ida Rolf stories. (Ha! Ha!) BILL: Well, you could… JEFF: Well, I could try…. BILL: Okay, so how long have you been Rolling and how long have you been on the faculty? JEFF: I’ve been […]
In Profile… Jan Sultan
BILL: I’ve been Rolfing for seven and a half years; and unbelievable as it is, I don’t know anything about you: where you came from; how you became our senior teacher; how long you worked with Ida Rolf-how did you get where you are and who are you? JAN: I think it’s accidental and purely […]
Times Are A’Changin
I have been thinking about all the changes that seem to have occurred in my career as a physical therapist and in the health care system as a whole. At Meridian Point Rehabilitation Hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona, we are involved in the exciting process of creating an interdisciplinary approach to pain and somatic dysfunction that […]
My Rolfing Career – Thus Far
Introduction This piece is a description of several aspects of my experiences as a Rolfer at this point in my career. I present it with no notion that my situation is unique or exemplary. Actually, I consider the opposite to be true. While my situation has its idiosyncrasies and my personality its share of peculiarities, […]
Tonic Function: A Gravity Response Model for Rolfing Structural and Movement Integration
A Spectrum of Gravity Issues The founder of Structural Integration, Ida Rolf, emphasized the importance of gravity in considering the evolution of human potential. She implied that the importance of understanding gravity was missing in the osteopathic approach 2. Throughout their respective histories, the martial arts, tai chi, yoga, dance theory, and other schools of […]
An Interview with Rev. Rosalyn Buyere
GH: I’m reviewing Valerie Hunt’s book, Infinite Mind, for Rolf Lines, and I did an article on Emilie Conrad-Da?ud when she was in town. So I was thinking, Well, the time has come to get the third party of this triumvirate of great women. (triumgynate?) RB: Well, you know the last time I talked to […]
The Psychology Curriculum of F.O.B.
BH: When I was twined, twelve wears ago at this point. Psychology as a subject matter wasn’t touched at all. We had very Sophisticated judges of human character in the teachers. Some of that had to rub off but my question is, what’s happening nosy’ Now there is pre training, which wasn’t around when I […]
Rolfing as Sonata Form
INTRODUCTION In a famous TV broadcast, Leonard Bernstein elucidated the mysteries of classical sonata form to his young audience.’ What I vividly recall about this program over thirty years later is the marvelous visual device Bernstein employed to “cue” his audience to the movement’s main structural events (the piece was Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony, K. 551, […]