The Ethics of Rolfing: Some Reflections and Notes – Part I
The vision of human embodiment that Rolfing embraces has important consequences for the ethics of its practice. James Drane writes that, “At some point ethics is about our vision, and an ethical question pushed to its final point represents a search for vision.” (Drane, 1982, p. 39). In this paper I will discuss some of […]
Rolfing in the Paradigms of Soothing, Fixing and Healing
Rolfing has more than one thing to say and more than one way of saying. This has become a problem for us when we have tried to hold these sayings and ways of saying together too rigidly, and when these sayings and ways of saying haven’t had enough differentiation. Perhaps this is why there is […]
In Profile… An Interview with Rosemary Feitis and Louis Schultz
Bill: To generations of Rolfers, what is amazing about you, Dr. Feitis, is that you decided at an advanced age to become a medical doctor. You went and immersed yourself in the medical model, coming from a place, which is as far from the medical model as was possible at one point. Having done this, […]
Gravity is the Therapist?
Try this experiment. First, smile. Not one of those cautious or sly Mona Lisa type smiles, but a real eye squinting chipmunk-cheeked toothy grin. Next, breathe in and out very rapidly, shallow breaths, a couple of times a second, so you can actually hear the wind shuffling back and forth through your mouth. Continue until […]
Bodies and the Moral Life
One of the most remarkable things I learned during long years of graduate studies was that the moral life, which the ethicist presumes to study, is lived with bodies. I learned this quite by accident. In my naive attempt to actually read everything which was required in my course of studies, I developed butt aches, […]
A Review of the Future of the Body Workshop
I’d like to share my experience of The Future of the Body workshop taught in September ’95 by Emilie Conrad-Da’oud and Don Van Vleet. It was a fascinating course and I believe that the cross pollination of the ideas put forth by Emilie and Don are opening the way for a new contextual framework of […]
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 […]