Aging Rolfer, Aging Clients
Truth be told, I was never a young Rolfer, and am certainly not now, thirty years later at age seventy-six. Feeling old and creaky at age forty-five after my first class at the Rolf Institute® (RISI) in 1983, I went to Louis Schultz and told him that I needed to be able to sit on […]
When Working with Athletes
The Psychology of Athletes For many, there are no limitations only the completion of the goal. These are the athletes and dancers who may flow into our practices seeking help to repair an injury or to rehabilitate from one, and to improve athletic performance. They may be elite or recreational athletes, as well as novices, […]
Lessons in the Body’s Potential
Wayne?s Perspective Sandy and I have worked with many great Minnesota Vikings and other National Football League (NFL) players over twenty-three years, including Cris Carter, who was recently inducted into the Hall of Fame, and Vikings running back Adrian Peterson. Adrian has had a total of 10,115 rushing yards in the NFL and eighty-six touchdowns. […]
Seeing
Nobody ever taught you to look at experience before. They taught you to look at the symbol of the experience; at the abstract of the experience. Dr. Ida P. Rolf (class notes) Perception is central to the practice and theory of Rolfing Structural Integration (SI). Yet, the eye a Rolfer™ needs is probably the […]
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 […]
Fascia as an Auto-Regulatory System
Bruce Schonfeld: We?ve talked a lot about fascia research. How is Western medicine receiving all of the research and taking it into consideration? Tom Myers: It is happening very fast. It is being received into the mainstream with speeds I would not have credited to happen in my lifetime. I have surgeons coming to me […]
Edges
What is an edge? Why is it important? Edges are where people meet. Centers (Drummond 2014) and edges are the conditions under which individuality emerges. If you don?t know where your center is, no one can meet you. If you don?t know where your edges are, you can never meet anyone. Meeting happens body to […]
Osteopathic Thoughts on Structure
My career as an osteopathic physician is a natural extension of my Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) practice in the 1980s. After all these decades, persistence has been a key to the learning process: the body does not yield its structural secrets in a linear timeline nor at my discretion. The various disciplines give you a […]
Structural Aging Part 1 – Finding Grace in Gravity
Introduction The client walks in. He is bent over, his head leans out in front of his hips. He walks stiff-legged. His hips hurt. His back hurts. His feet hurt. Question: Is he seventy-eight or thirty-eight – or twenty-eight? Another client’s spine has lost its curves, her toes don’t bend anymore, and walking hurts her […]
Nerves, Superficial Fascia, and Aging
Anne Hoff: You are a fascia researcher as well as a Rolfer. For those who don’t know your background, how did this come about? Stephen Evanko: In graduate school, I had studied how tendon tissue responds to compressive forces by transitioning into fibrocartilaginous tissue. I was learning intricate details of the cell biology and biochemistry, […]