Orthotropism and the Unbinding of Morphological Potential
Q: HOW WOULD YOU REFORMULATE THE CONCEPT OF SUPPORT IN RELATION TO THE IDEA OF ORTHOTROPISM1? First let me thank you for insisting on more clarification about the nature of support and its relation to the concept of orthotropism. Unfortunately, in our discussions we have not clearly distinguished between a number of ways of understanding […]
Practice Building Resources
This index lists some resources available to Rolfers and Movement Teachers for support in practice-building. ROLF LINES’ articles, products, and services are reviewed for the years 1987 to the present; Rolfing advertisements, to 1985. There is also a section of references and brief descriptions of magazines and books I have found useful in stimulating my […]
The Map and the Territory
Greetings; Jan Sultan’s recent letter and the attendant responses are, I hope, a sign that dialogue is awakening. The definitions and assumptions that underlie our practice grow, develop and mature from those essential ideas planted by Dr. Rolf years ago. We each take these ideas and add to them the lessons of our experience, shaped […]
Thoughts on Core and Sleeve
PERSONAL HISTORY. In class when people would ask Dr. Rolf for the anatomy of core and sleeve, she would give an impatient answer, with which I would then argue. After a few years I decided that core was not a structure but rather a feeling. This did not make it any less real. I sort […]
Reading a Scientific Article
The Rolf Institute’s Research Committee has begun a project to survey the scientific literature that relates to Rolfing. Our plan is to provide Institute members with reviews of particularly interesting studies. Some of you have offered to help by serving as reviewers, but first we need to decide what we are trying to do. This […]
What Is Metaphysics?
Metaphysics is gaining popularity throughout the world. Many more people than ever claim interest or expertise in metaphysis. Yet how many of these people have actually ever mad any of the works of the world’s great metaphysicians? Not realizing that all Christian theology is based on and inspired by metaphysics, fundamentalist signorantly reject metaphysics as […]
Standing on Solid Ground with the Psychological
In the exploration of Ida P. Rolfs work, I have found the power of The Line indisputable. Yet, over the years I felt increasingly dissatisfaction with a restriction in the emotional/psychological approach to the Work. In hind sight, I realize I had worked at arm’s length with people and that a structural curtain of concern […]
An Interview with… Louis Schultz
How did you begin teaching anatomy? At the time I was in practitioner training, I was living with Peter and Susan Melchior, and of course Peter and I would talk nightly. There was no anatomy before the training, and what I realized, having taught traditional anatomy and done anatomy dissections was that once people got […]
How to Use Generous Movement in Your Rolfing Practice – Part II
Movement Teaching Is a Natural Companion to Rolfing Probably in one way or another most Rolfers teach their clients about movement. The situation itself, the relationship between practitioner and client, almost demands that clients be encouraged to take the responsibility for examining and changing their movement behavior. Rolfers and other practitioners of structural integration those […]
Rolfing to Save a Career
Recently, when I was about to give up playing the string bass because of escalating back injuries, a friend recommended Rolfing therapy. I had tried to strengthen the lower back and correct my lordosis (swayback) with an exercise program of partial sit ups and constant pelvic tucking. But walking had become a strain and a […]