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 […]
Playdoyer for Acknowledgement of the Role of the C.N.S. in Our Work
At last year’s European annual meeting, Hans Flury gave a short lecture about differentiating between two working styles: the physical mode, which is using the mechanical plasticity of the connective tissue, and the informational mode where we communicate with the central nervous system. This inspried me to do two simple tests to find out what […]
Meditations on Our Work
I. In Rolfing we are working on many levels of reality. Structurally. We evoke order and integrate relationships within the physical structure so that the field of Gravity which governs all physical life can nourish the person with its Energy instead of the person using up so much energy simply to exist, struggling against the […]
Rolfing and Swimming Performance
Foreword James L. Oschman, Ph.D. Scientific research has the potencial to influence the public’s awareness ofRolfing. The following project could do this in a dramatic way. This opportunity has arisen as a consequence of a number of years of effort on the part ofOwen Marcus to establish a working relationship with highly respected research and […]
Tubes Rule OK
In the last issue of ROLF LINES, we looked at how our microstructure is comprised of three networks of interwoven cylinders. This time we shall keep the concepts of “three” and of “tubes”, but consider now our macrostructure. It is easy to see how the tubes got to #1 with a bullet as the preferred […]
Rolfing and BODYnamics
At this year’s annual Rolfing conference in July, Marianne Bentzen spoke to us about BODYnamics, a unique system of body psychotherapy developed in Europe that combines Reichian approaches to the body with theories of psychomotor development. My wife Cheryl Why at, also a Rolfer, and I have both taken the one-year BODYnamic training, are presently […]
The Radical Orthodoxy… of Hans Flury and Willi Harder
“Get your physics in place, then worry about the metaphysics,” Dr. Rolf used to say. And she did her best to live up to her own words, putting the emphasis in her work on the materiality of the body and its behavior in gravity. She knew there was more going on, but she realized she […]
Das Boot
The Rolfing Domain of Inquiry Any attempt to understand what it is we do as Rolfers brings us face to face with the fact that Rolfing is not a finished system. What Dr. Rolf left in the hands of her students and teachers was not a closed system of dogmatic claims and attitudes, but a […]
Keep Your Heart Open and Cover Your A…
The themes of our first column “Carotid Sinus Syndrome and Carotid Sinus Syncope” have been chosen in honor of a dear and understandably unnamed colleague and in honor of the swift sympathetic response the above named syncope caused in her body. First a brief quotation to define the problem: “Strong pressure on the neck over […]
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 […]