Rolfing Research
In October 1990 I accepted the position as Director of Research for the Rolf Institute. Based upon meetings with the President of Institute, Alan Demmerle, we have agreed that I will structure a plan of research for the Institute. This will focus on an overall vision of identifying what research should be done, how the […]
An Interview with Anna Hyder
BH: What would you like to talk about today, Anna? AH: Well, I think I want to tell you more about me. BH: Okay, great! AH: We’ve talked about the organization and Dr. Rolf and folks that we know, and I think you all ought to note that you might want to know about me. […]
Maintaining Health Through Structural Integration
Summary National focus on maintaining health and preventing illness is for the most part on nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle. But the maintenance of appropriate body structure has also been shown to be important. Attention to this facet of health maintenance will provide long term benefits in term of a population with less disease, and discomfort, […]
Rolfing and Strabismus
Learning To See One fine day, less than a year after all the raz-a-mataz of being born, I sat quietly listening to my mother in conversation with a neighbor, probably trying to make some sense out of it, when, unknown to me and all by itself, my left eye began looking in the opposite direction […]
Center for the Healing Arts Lecture (reprint)
In the past few years, one word has taken on an inordinate emphasis in our culture-the word “energy.” We have heard it so much that its meaning has been confused and perhaps it is worth some consideration to segregate and differentiate the implications of that word is the energy that we are talking about related […]
An Osteopath Looks at the Rolf Method – Explorations
I have been asked to write an article with some such title ,as “an Osteopath looks at the C f Method.” I am willing to the attempt, and it is pose that I am better qualified do so than some others bese I have now been an ospath for some forty years I have been […]
Rolfing as a Third Paradigm Practice
As part of the effort over the past several years to create a national certification for body-workers, a great deal of time and effort was expended in trying to categorize the many forms of bodywork. Out of that process has come a three-paradigm model for characterizing bodywork. First paradigm methods are characterized as palliative in […]
Letter from Jan Sultan
I was sent a pre-publication copy of Hubert Ritters interview with Hans Flury because the staff felt that the faculty should have an opportunity to respond. In the interview Flury expresses himself on a wide array of issues including his own contributions to Rolfing in the name of Normal Function and the politics of the […]
The Functional Bridge of Rolfing and Movement
Bill: It always seemed to me that Rolf Movement Integration was a misnomer; that it should be called “Rolfing Embodiment” or “Rolfing Functional Integration.” Rebecca: We have issues around the name all the time. Rolfing Movement, as a name, isn’t exactly catchy nor descriptive. We recently changed our name to Rolf Movement Practitioner, with the […]
Gravity, Lift, and Inertia – Part I
SUMMARY Gravity is one of the most significant yet least understood influences on the structure and function of living things. In spite of the best efforts of some of the greatest thinkers of all times, the mechanisms of gravity, lift and inertia remain a mystery. We explore these subjects, beginning with the relationship of the […]