Supported Sitting
If you have upper back, neck or shoulder pain and spenda lot of time sitting in a chair, you may be sitting improperly. Spend some time right now learning supported sitting. You have nothing to lose but your aches and pains. When you are standing the weight of your body is transmitted to the floor […]
In Profile… An Interview with Will Johnson
Self-effacing, tall and sinewy, innocent, just slightly but pleasantly in your face, 48 year old Rolfer, Will Johnson, originally from Minnesota, was trained in 1976. He and his wife Lyn have founded The Institute for Embodiment Training in Cobble Hill, British Columbia, 3 hours ferry and car north of Vancouver. He has sons six and […]
Change, Transformation and the Universal Pattern of Myofascial Holding
At the 1994 Annual Meeting I attempted to define and distinguish between what I have come to call the two primary paths of Rolfing: Rolfing as a path of therapeutic change and Rolfing as a path of transformation. I continue to find this distinction useful and would like to clarify and expand on it in […]
What’s in a Handshake?
The anniversary of Dr. Rolf’s birth has prompted many to review the paths their lives have followed since their first contacts with her work. One of my early and profound experiences was shaking hands with Dr. Rolf. I was to give a talk on the energetics of connective tissue in an advanced class in Philadelphia […]
The Jungle Gym: An Inquiry into Fitness
This article is an introduction to an on-going inquiry into what we know and can say about fitness. The inquiry is the Jungle Gym, developed by Emilie Conrad Da’oud. The Jungle Gym is a contribution to the evolution of a biologically based, self-reflexive model of exercise and fitness. The Gym has evolved out of the […]
Integral Anatomy, Part I
Bill: I think everybody who has come in contact with Roger Jordan’s article on dissection and Robert Shleip’s notes on a dissection posted on the Rolf Forum has really benefited from what you have single-handedly brought to our community which are these dissection courses. How did this happen? How is it that you get bodies? […]
The Ethics of Touch
What constitutes ethics in a helping relationship? What is ethical touch? These are questions that have accompanied me for thirty years, first as a recipient of Rolfing®, later as a Rolfer and still later as a teacher of Rolfing. In this time I have seen, experienced, heard of and done many things that I now […]
Remarks About Structure Starting from an Aesthetic Point of View
When I first began working as a Rolfer, it was in a center where, as well as doctors, there was a beauty department. So I often happened to work with women who had difficulty in accepting their physical aspect. While I tried to motivate these people to feel and to perceive their bodies and not […]
The Somatics Study Group
The second annual Colloquium on Somatics Inquiry, conducted by the Somatics Study Group, will be held at CIIS on Friday and Saturday, March 9th and 10th, 2001. It is open to the members of the Somatics Study Group, the panel of judges, and those whose papers are selected for presentation. At that time, the second […]
A Hands On Strategy
The heart of this article is a chart which describes, for a full working week in August, 1992, each action I took that week to build my practice. By actual count, there were 24 such activities. This number does not include calls I made that did not result in a direct conversation with someone, scheduling […]