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 […]
Flo-Motion Movement Awareness System
Flo-Motion Movement Awareness System is an exciting new approach to exercise, fitness, body/mind awareness, and the applied principles of balanced, integrated movement. Fluid-dynamic movement is introduced by the Flo, an innovative exercise/biofeedback device: a tube of state of the art aero space material with handles attached at each end. The product is activated by an […]
Tubular, dude!
At the International Conference, Professor Maitland spoke of cylinders and their significance in human form: any twisting or bending along the circumference results in a shortening along the axial line. Enter the Rolfer. We are all familiar with the structural image of cylinders within cylinders from Emmett’s models we have used for years. But it […]