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 […]
In Profile… An Interview with Rosie Spiegel
Bill: So what’s this about you writing a book? Rosie: My four year project has come to an end, although I think the end is a beginning of something new! It’s all done and I’m really pleased with it. I think I succeeded in putting together the elements that were really dominant in my own […]
Basic Concepts in the Theory of Hubert Godard
I. INTRODUCTION As Rolfers we have gotten used to describing our experience in our work using a unique vocabulary (core, intrinsic movement, span, line, X and 0 legs, internals and externals). Though it is natural for a group of people who interact to develop a jargon that meets the needs of the group, it can […]
Joint Motility
What is Motility? Many Rolfers have begun to talk about working with motility. I was first introduced to the term motility in visceral trainings with the Up ledger Institute and again in my Advanced training in 1993. I believe the phenomenal of motility is also what I had been exploring as “unwinding” since my pre […]
The Translucent Human
Let’s begin with a very simple question, one that I have asked a lot of people including a number of medical professionals. If you took all the cells out of a human body what would you have left? I mean this literally. If you removed every muscle cell, organ cell, glandular cell, nervous system cell, […]
Structure in Free Float
ROLFING AND GRAVITY In my article on joint motility (August 1996 Rolf Lines) there is an introductory discussion of an understanding of gravity that goes beyond the Newtonian view. In working to understand the full significance of joint motility I began an earnest exploration of the scientific fundamentals of motion, verticality, balance and gravity. This […]