Rolfing® SI, Consciousness, Energy, and Awareness
Introduction What is your own response to the question, “Is the work that you do as Rolfer physical or energetic?” I think that most of us would say that it is both. What do you mean by ‘physical’ and what do you mean by ‘energetic’? Why is this important to you when you work? I […]
Some Psychological and Spiritual Dimensions of the Rolfing® Ten Series
In our effort to grow in the practice and understanding of Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) we may often ask ourselves the questions: where am I, who am I, and where am I going? These questions can expand to include SI in general and our teaching institutions. Speaking and thinking about our work in terms of […]
The Dialogue of Touch
This article has four interrelated subjects: Insights, precautions, and strategies from psychotherapy that I use in my Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) practice. How the unconscious and/or cell membranes of the client control when and if connective tissue and emotional change will take place. Invitation for all Rolfers and Rolfers- in-training to seek out psychotherapy for […]
The Co-emergence of Mind-Body-Spirit
Introduction I first learned about Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) reading The Center of the Cyclone: An Autobiography of Inner Space, John Lilly’s account of his explorations with dolphins, LSD, isolation tanks, Esalen, Rolfing SI, Arica, etc. For me, Rolfing SI has always been part of a larger context of mind-body-spirit integration – or what I’m […]
The Earthbound Metaphysic
Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. The Book of Genesis 2:7 So that is what I’m talking about, the gravity field, the earth field, the great field of the earth always wins . . . What can we do about it? We can change the field of […]
Rolfing® SI, Psyche, and Consciousness
Q: Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) found an early audience in the human potential movement of the 1960s, at the intersection of mind-body-spirit. The culture has changed a lot since then, yet our work continues to have a relationship to psyche and consciousness. Please share what you find interesting about this interplay, whether an experience, a […]
Working with Ma
Introduction The ‘Art of Yield’ demonstrates that effective structural change can be achieved through gentle and brief, but precisely timed, touch (Agneessens and Tahata 2012, McConnell and Tahata 2015). This approach can facilitate drastic structural change as shown in Figure 1. ‘Yielding touch’ effectively provides a ‘scaffolding’ underneath the body, which allows it to […]
Navigating Between Technical Refinement and the Vast Dimensions of the Soul
Allan Kaplan Peter Schwind Allan Kaplan: So, I’m glad to see you. Just to set a general context of things, how did you come to become interested in Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) and how long have you been practicing? Peter Schwind: I’ve been practicing now for thirty-seven years. Before I was trained in Rolfing SI, […]
An Abundance of Riches
It is obvious that these days we can access tissue layers in the body that were not part of Dr. Rolf’s ‘Recipe’. Our ability to sense and use the mobility of the cranium, the inherent motility in the membranous system of the central nervous system, and the fluidic matrix have come to us via the […]
The Three-Dimensional Animal, Part 2
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past. Richard Dawkins1 I like old things. Most of my furniture is inherited. So are many of my books and even a surprising number of my pieces of clothing. […]