Getting Beyond Manipulation and Movement Cue to an Integration of Structural and Functional lnterventions
I must preface this article by making explicit my assumption that adaptive capability precedes in importance how a person looks in before and after pictures. This may seem common sense, but most of the Rolfed bodies I have come across are no more adaptable or intelligent than un rolfed ones. In some ways they are […]
Impulse Formation in Underresponsive Tissue
How do we as Rolfers work with our clients where tension, holding and awareness seem to be lacking, where their tissue is flaccid, less responsive, and slower to respond to touch and verbal suggestion? How do we vary our touch; do we press harder or softer? Do we ask f or movement? Do we look […]
Bell’s Palsy
One-sided swelling of the facial nerve within its canal which gives rise to paralysis or weakness of the facial muscles supplied by the nerve. Most commonly Idiopathic and/or familial, occasion ally associated with Herpes zoster or simplex, sometimes caused by exposure to cold. Usually arises suddenly (over a few days) and presents with total or […]
Jungian Psychology and Rolfing
BH: You’ve gone in a particular direction with the question of Rolling and psychotherapy…. NF: I had a relatively difficult childhood. I was on the couch in psycho analysis tit New York when I was nineteen, the locus then being that I had been in and out of four different colleges. It was very important […]
Gravity, Lift, and Inertia – Part II
LIFT IN THE BODY Perhaps a close look at the ways living organisms have solved the problems of gravity can teach us about physics in action. A recent article by Rolfer Austin McElroy’ explains the concept of lift as it applies to the Rolf work. His model, reproduced here in Figure 1,demonstrates with helium balloons […]
Therapy Balls and Rolfing
Introducing therapy balls into my Rolfing sessions has proved to be somewhat like Jonathan Jo’s wheelbarrow full of surprises. They provide unexpected solutions to a wide range of the structural challenges we see in our offices. I was pleased to learn following my presentation at last year’s Annual Meeting that many Rolfers already have a […]
Perception and the Cognitive Theory of Life:
When it comes to the practice of Rolfing®, it is not much of an exaggeration to say perception is everything. One of the most important and difficult skills that every Rolfer must learn is the ability to “see.” The problem of teaching students to perceive the whole person in accordance with our five taxonomies of […]
The Electromagnetic Approach to Rolfing
THE BASICS I have been asked to explain what I mean by “direct electromagnetic Rolfing.” Here is a more or less off the-cuff explanation. The body mind is not so much material as materializing. Structure does not exist independently of bioelectric activity, it only appears to in death and dissection. Moreover, living structure as such […]
Scoliosis and Proprioception
Most types of scoliosis are classified as idiopathic scoliosis which means that the reasons for this type of rotational deformity of the spine are as vet unknown. Nevertheless, there are all kinds of assumptions, beliefs and anecdotal reports available in the alternative health community concerning the main cans,: and driving factors. For example, the following […]
Among the Yanumami of the Rain Forest
[Fonte: Rolf Lines SUmmer 2000] Ray: Tell me more about your experiences. Mario: We flew into Caracas, then went to Puerto Ayacucho, the base for the missionaries who work with the nearby Indian community. The region is the size of the state of Colorado and a part of the Amazon rain forest. The people I […]