Flo-Motion Movement Awareness System
Flo-Motion Movement Awareness System is an exciting new approach to exercise, fitness, body/mind awareness, and the applied principles of balanced, integrated movement. Fluid-dynamic movement is introduced by the Flo, an innovative exercise/biofeedback device: a tube of state of the art aero space material with handles attached at each end. The product is activated by an […]
Tubular, dude!
At the International Conference, Professor Maitland spoke of cylinders and their significance in human form: any twisting or bending along the circumference results in a shortening along the axial line. Enter the Rolfer. We are all familiar with the structural image of cylinders within cylinders from Emmett’s models we have used for years. But it […]
Grandma’s Curtain Stretcher
Dr. Rolf occasionally hinted that Rolfing has similarities to stretching curtains on “grandma’s curtain stretcher”, or tuning a stringed instrument. This statement, far from being quaintly enigmatic, is a reference to the principles of equalizing, or balancing stress in structures combining both rigid and elastic elements. Even though this homely principle has, to some degree, […]
How to Use Generous Movement in Your Rolfing Practice – Part I
Every Rolfer is familiar with a story like Edna’s. Ever since a car accident she had suffered chronic back pain. She had “tried everything.” She was finding her piano teaching increasingly difficult. Before launching into work on the table, I asked her to describe what she did in an ordinary day, and suggested that we […]
Research Report
There has been substantial progress with the Institute’s Research Agenda and indeed in the research prospects of all Alternative Health Care modalities due to the federal government’s research initiative. Progress on the Institute’s Plan As you may recall, we have been following a plan for research on Rolfing that was put together for us in […]
The Surreptitious Aortic Aneurysm
Atherosclerosis, also called Arteriosclerosis, the hypertrophy and fibrosis of the large muscular arteries (the aorta and its major branches) eventually weakens and disrupts the elasticity of these arteries. This loss of elasticity contributes to high blood pressure. The hardened and scarred arteries do not freely expand and contract with the varying needs of blood during […]
Reading the Body in Dance
We will take the spine as the starting point, but “spine” in the largest sense, as an image that includes mechanics, relationship and symbolism. The function of the spine will be understood as the capacity to perceive and respond to two fields, two polarities-in a way, the spine will be understood as a movement. First […]
The Evocation of Unique States of Consciousness as a Consequence of Somatic Practices
I have been a practitioner of Rolfing for more than25 years and it has been even longer since I received my first sessions from Dr. Rolf. From the beginning, I have experienced in myself and my clients changes in states of consciousness that accompany this work. In fact, the appeal of this work has often […]
Moving Toward Our Evolutional Potential
Anyone who has spent any time reading Dr. Rolf’s written word knows that she was profoundly interested in the effect of Rolfing on human evolution. But exactly what this effect might have been was never stated clearly. In some references she speaks about evolution as if it had to do with personal growth and transformation. […]
A Six-Step-Schema (reprint)
INTRODUCTION The following was presented at the 1991 Annual Meeting in Boulder, Colorado. Within Rolfing® there is an abundance of ideas which nobody has systematically developed. The intention of this contribution is to show an example of such an undertaking, here for the particular problem of describing the shape or the structure, which of course […]