Rolfing in Industry:
Background In April of 1992 1 began working, as a Rolfer, for Starkey Laboratories, Inc. A privately owned company, Starkey is the world’s second largest manufacturer of custom hearing aids. In 1992 they were aggressively addressing problems of high workers’ compensation costs, much of which was due to repetitive stress injuries, such as carpal tunnel […]
An Interview with Carlos Repetto
HANS GEORG: Carlos, can you tell us how you developed your work and what this “Theatre Of Gesture” is all about? CARLOS: My interest in the theatre extends back as far as my childhood. The impressions I got during my first experiences in school have molded me indelibly. Play acting became something natural for me. […]
Exercise and Balance
From the sessions that Rolfers and Rolf Movement Practitioners actually do with their clients to the time when a client fully discovers and continues to rediscover the pleasure and stability that come from living in her structurally integrated body, many factors come into play. One element that might positively affect the outcome and the benefits […]
Lecture Notes on Psoas & Adductors
PSOAS AS A MEDIAL ROTATOR “In thus inserting on the medial side of the femur (the rotators insert more laterally), the psoas major can function as a medial and internal rotator of the thigh, balancing external rotators.” This statement from Ida Rolf on page 170 of her book on Rolfing® is in clear contrast to […]
A Small Piece of Oral History
MS: You were in a Rolfing® class as model for an osteopath? JB: Yes, I was under the care of an osteopath, Betty Herbert, who asked me if I’d like to be her model in a class she was participating in. MS: What led you to see an osteopath in the first place? JB: I’d […]
Windows into the Neuraxis
[:en]In the classical view of Rolfing®, knowledge of the nervous system doesn’t seem to offer much for Rolfers. “It’s that other system.” We know it’s there but we don’t have to talk about it. The sheer complexity is daunting, and most books on neurophysiology leave the reader still very far from useful clinical application. I […]
Another Spin on Rotation
According to Stephen Pare1 not only did I misunderstand Schleip’s original intent, but I also misread his article and misquoted him in way that misled me in my original criticisms. While I appreciate Pare’s desire to enter into the discussion, I am not certain that he managed to defend Schleip’s understanding of rotation from the […]
The Enrollment Process
When clients make a first Rolfing appointment, they complete a “process of enrollment? for themselves. Looked at this way, deciding to be Rolfed is not a discrete, single event. Rather, it represents one more step by that person along a continuum. The time between hearing about Rolfing for the first time and deciding to make […]
Practice Building
When I asked to write an article on entrepreneurship from a “young” Rolfer’s point of view, the request was a marvelous coincidence: two weeks before, I had been thinking in a concentrated way for the first time about what I have always labeled the “woo-woo” aspect of building a Rolfing practice. After almost three years, […]
Homeopathy
When I first met Ida P. Rolf in 1973, she was teaching a basic Rolfing class in Lake Placid, Florida; and as her “secretary”, I was responsible for assisting in her travels and maintaining her household. One of the essential pieces of luggage she carried with her was a large, well-worn leather valise filled primarily […]