Joint Restriction in SI
Introduction Movement restrictions in the joints of the axial skeleton produce an immediate alteration in the client’s structure. These alterations can include such patterns as leg-length discrepancy and changes in pelvic inclination as well as orientation of the spinal curves. They also produce localized inflammation and edema, which is experienced by our clients as pain. […]
The Case Study Method: The Latest from the ABR/Uniitalo SI Postgraduate Program
Perhaps the greatest challenge for the scientific investigation of our work is its essential holism: the multidimensional and holistic attributes that give Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) its conceptual richness also complicate the scientific assessment of its results. Segmentation of reality and isolation of phenomena, often used for controlling multiple variables, in our context poses the […]
My Love – Hate Relationship with Rolf Movement® Integration
I experience earth-moving epiphanies and mind-blowing change every time I go to a Rolf Movement workshop. I love Rolf Movement workshops. I experience sense-numbing terror and frightful disorientation every time I go to one of these workshops. I hate Rolf Movement workshops. The setting was a Rolf Movement workshop on perceptual core stability, taught by […]
Even the Ants Are Red in the Grand Canyon
Last August I spent one week immersed in Mother Nature on a river trip in the Grand Canyon in Colorado organized by fellow Rolfers. We went rafting, hiking, and climbing, and also learned new approaches to the work we all love. I’d like to share some of the moments that I feel have become defining […]
An Unlikely Pairing
Prelude It was December of 1964. I was seventeen years old and failing eleventh grade for the second time. My mother gave me three choices: Get a job. Go to a trade school. Join the armed service. The first two options weren’t particularly enticing, and since my friend John Lockwood had led the way when […]
Well … There’s No Stage Five
Photo by Susan Cassuto “I have to admit, I don’t know much about staging,” my neighbor said when I told her I had stage 4 colon cancer. “What does stage 4 mean?” “Well,” I replied, “There’s no stage 5.” I decided to try to write something about the predicament I find myself in, since over […]
Dancers and Rolfing® SI
[:en]Amy Iadarola: How did you start working with dancers in your practice, Rebecca? Rebecca Carli: Well, I have worked with various types of dancers since the beginning of my Rolf Movement Integration and Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) career – twenty-eight years ago now. Likely, dancers are drawn to my practice because I have college degrees […]
When Flexible Is Too Flexible
One would think that being extraordinarily flexible would be advantageous to a dancer. After all, many forms of dance are characterized by extreme ranges of motion, particularly in the spine and lower extremities. But acrobatic flexibility may in fact be a sign of a system-wide disorder affecting the body’s connective tissues that can cause a […]
The Physiology of Singing
Purpose of This Article This article will provide an overview of a specific aspect of voice physiology and its practical use by singers. I will be speaking to the Rolfer who works with singers (or is a singer herself) or has an interest in further study in this area. I will be utilizing a […]
The Three-Dimensional Foot
An old witch from Ranchos told me that La Que Sabe knew everything about women, that La Que Sabe had created women from a wrinkle on the sole of her divine foot: This is why women are knowing creatures; they are made, in essence, of the skin of the sole, which feels everything. This […]