The Equine Line
What I have found from my 19years of working with horses is that often structural problems that arise are simply a reflection of how the horse is being used on a daily basis. I have also concluded that often it is more appropriate to change the training technique or the rider’s position than to undo […]
Structural Awareness, Part I
Structural Awareness is based on the assumption that you are constantly in the process of creating your body, whether consciously or unconsciously. Further more, this process is a psycho-physical event that is continously occurring. There is no body or psyche that is “real and permanent” but rather an inter related unfolding process. From a Buddhist […]
The Pink Light Express
Somewhere in the kaleidescoped, quilted pattern of my life, my career as a body worker emerged about ten years ago and I became a Rolfer. Been doing it ever since. For those of us who enter the temple of the human body through touch, changing someone’s structure soon loses its place at center stage and […]
Structural Integration and Rolfing
In my presentation to the teachers of the Rolf Institute I only want to comment on that sector of Rolfing which applies gravity and the laws of physics to the human body, the field of Structural Integration. You may ask: How can there be a difference between Rolfing and Structural Integration? I consider that differentiation […]
The Ethics of Rolfing: Some Reflections and Notes – Part I
The vision of human embodiment that Rolfing embraces has important consequences for the ethics of its practice. James Drane writes that, “At some point ethics is about our vision, and an ethical question pushed to its final point represents a search for vision.” (Drane, 1982, p. 39). In this paper I will discuss some of […]
Rolfing in the Paradigms of Soothing, Fixing and Healing
Rolfing has more than one thing to say and more than one way of saying. This has become a problem for us when we have tried to hold these sayings and ways of saying together too rigidly, and when these sayings and ways of saying haven’t had enough differentiation. Perhaps this is why there is […]
In Profile… An Interview with Rosemary Feitis and Louis Schultz
Bill: To generations of Rolfers, what is amazing about you, Dr. Feitis, is that you decided at an advanced age to become a medical doctor. You went and immersed yourself in the medical model, coming from a place, which is as far from the medical model as was possible at one point. Having done this, […]
Gravity is the Therapist?
Try this experiment. First, smile. Not one of those cautious or sly Mona Lisa type smiles, but a real eye squinting chipmunk-cheeked toothy grin. Next, breathe in and out very rapidly, shallow breaths, a couple of times a second, so you can actually hear the wind shuffling back and forth through your mouth. Continue until […]
Bodies and the Moral Life
One of the most remarkable things I learned during long years of graduate studies was that the moral life, which the ethicist presumes to study, is lived with bodies. I learned this quite by accident. In my naive attempt to actually read everything which was required in my course of studies, I developed butt aches, […]
A Review of the Future of the Body Workshop
I’d like to share my experience of The Future of the Body workshop taught in September ’95 by Emilie Conrad-Da’oud and Don Van Vleet. It was a fascinating course and I believe that the cross pollination of the ideas put forth by Emilie and Don are opening the way for a new contextual framework of […]