Putting the ‘Health’ Back into Healthcare
So many therapists are striking at the pattern of disease, instead of supporting the pattern of health. One of the things that you as Rolfers must always emphasize is that you are not practitioners curing disease; you are practitioners invoking health. Invocation is possible by an understanding of what the pattern is, the structural pattern […]
Rolfing® SI as Part of Healthcare
Introduction Twenty years ago I became a Rolfer. Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) training changed my way of looking at a person, a client, a patient – seeing the whole person not just the parts, and also understanding the relationship of the parts. This also led me to a new sense of myself and has been […]
A Team Approach
Over the decades, I have developed an extensive referral network. Many of my clients can benefit from other services in addition to what I can offer. Other practitioners have their areas of expertise and often recognize that at any given time, their clients may need additional services, including what I can provide. I refer to […]
A Physician’s Perspective
Introduction by Linda Loggins: Through mutual colleagues from Texas, I met Wiley Patterson in Boulder in the 1990s. Wiley and I have interacted at regional meetings, structural integration workshops, and occasional social gatherings. I consider him a friend and colleague. Wiley graduated from Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara medical school in December 1978. He went through […]
Fascia Pioneer
Thomas Findley Anne Hoff Anne Hoff: We’ve been wanting to interview you for the Journal for quite some time, so I’m thrilled this is taking place. Let’s start with your background. You became a medical doctor in 1977, got a PhD in physical medicine and rehabilition in 1983, did your basic training with the […]
From Embryo to Adulthood
Editor’s Note: This interview was originally done for Brooke Thomas’s The Liberated Body Podcast. You can listen to this interview at www.liberatedbody.com/jaap-van-der-wal-lbp-057/ Jaap van der Wal Brooke Thomas Brooke Thomas: My conversation today is with an embryologist and anatomist, one of my longtime personal heroes, Jaap van der Wal. He’s been a professor at various […]
Manually-Evoked Tensegrity and Pandiculation, Part 1
Foreword This article describes the development, initially serendipitous, of a style of fascial manipulation currently referred to as Tensegrity Touch. Its outset was the observation from various Rolfer colleagues who noticed “something different” in the my (Bertolucci’s) manipulation maneuvers. Operating from the Outside: Blunt Dissection This all started back in the late 1980s, during my […]
Musings on Tensegrity and Biotensegrity
I trained at the Rolf Institute® shortly after the publication of Ron Kirkby’s (1975) article discussing the idea that tensegrity can provide a sensible explanation for how changes in the fascial web exert a broad influence throughout the structure of the human body and a justification for calling our manipulative strategies ‘structural integration’. For a […]
Biotensegrity
Editor’s Note: This interview was originally done for Brooke Thomas’s The Liberated Body Podcast. You can listen to this interview at www.liberatedbody.com/stephen-levin-lbp-035. Stephen Levin Brooke Thomas Brooke Thomas: For those unacquainted, can you give us a simple nutshell definition of biotensegrity? Stephen Levin: Tensegrity is a word derived from tension and integrity, [it] is a […]
ASK THE FACULTY
Q: Rolfers™ have traditionally operated outside of the traditional healthcare system, yet more and more clients seek our assistance for issues that relate to pain and various health conditions. Have you engaged or interfaced with the healthcare system, and how have you done so while maintaining the integrity and identity of our work of Rolfing […]