Gary Gibbs Discusses Technique
Dear Colleagues, Oven the last year I have been experimenting with different methods of body work. I’d like to share these with you. The basic principles underlying these methods are: 1. Centering the practitioner’s weight over the client. 2. Using gravity (body weight) as the therapist. 3. Using prestretched positions. I believe that using gravity […]
Rolfing Theory: The Worm Meets the World
Sages say that moving the core outside, searching the world for a path, is wrong. Path-finding comes from changed perspectives inside. This idea implies to me that legs are connectors, but not via their moving the body around on some hair-brained scheme. Legs contribute somehow to improvements in perspective. Listening to audio tapes of Jan […]
The Dorsal Hinge
For many years, I was confused about the dorsal hinge. My instructors spoke about it, but I never saw it in anatomy books. After a few years, I began to notice more and more in the mid thoracic part of the spinal column without really getting a conceptual handle on it. For a few months, […]
Re-Forming the Feet
Rolfing for me is a search for new models of reality. Such concepts are “true” if they work and when they allow me to approach the body in anew way which gives results in terms of the objectives of the basic Ten Sessions. They can be a supplement to what I have learned or, perhaps, […]
The Body as Healer
Somatic Experiencing THE WIND SHIFTS. The grazing impala are poised to a hair trigger of acute alertness. They smell, listen, and look. Danger is in the air. It is in the form of a few molecules of a new, but familiar scent, diluted minutely in millions of parts of air. The impala will flee or-if […]
Notes Along the Path
It is now ten years since I have completed the Rolf training and I appreciate this opportunity to share some of the thoughts that I’ve gathered along the way since I began on this journey of being a Rolfer. It’s like walking along a path and writing down personal truths on scraps of paper and […]
Yoga & Rolfing
Many people have devoted their lives to studying and practicing Rolfing. As I reflect on the countless individuals I have Rolfed over the years, I know that quite a few of them were inspired to the point where they made substantial changes in their habits. For many, their health improved significantly as they modified certain […]
Re-Thinking the C-Position
A number of important advances have been made in the last few years in the understanding and practice of our work. Creative investigations and advances have emerged from many directions. One critical area of concern has been the Advanced work. What makes Advanced work advanced? How is it different from basic work? And how is […]
Trends in Darwinian Medicine
Introduction While evolution by natural selection has long been a foundation for biomedical science, it has recently gained new power to explain many aspects of disease. This progress results largely from the disciplined application of what has been called the adaptationist program. This increasingly significant research paradigm can predict otherwise unsuspected facets of human biology […]
Natural Walking
Over the years the Rolfing° community has discovered many pearls of wisdom dealing with what elegant and economical walking looks like and how to evoke it. Yet these pearls have been loosely held within the context of the standard kinesiological model. We have never put together a model of walking that makes structural sense and […]