Rehab Notes, Post- Hallux-Rigidus Surgery
Introduction I am writing this now in the hope that my own experience with post-cheilectomysurgery rehabilitation will be helpful for Rolfers working with a client in this situation, or even for themselves. I wrote in an earlier article (“Why I Got Foot Surgery”; June 2011 issue of Structural Integration: The Journal of the Rolf Institute®) […]
Widening Our View of the Fascial Net
Anne Hoff: I notice that Rolfers who have done visceral work for a long time and are teaching it have a form of it that fits in the Rolfing paradigm. Except for you, Peter, I don’t get a sense that people are doing that with cranial. It seems like there are Rolfers teaching cranial, but […]
Evolving the Actor’s Neutral Body
As a Rolfer who has worked with bodies since 1993, I have observed that holding patterns and alignment in the body are a result of body structure, how we are taught to move, any injuries we have sustained, and what energy level we may have on a given day. Our parents or caretakers teach us […]
Bones to Fluids: A Path to Understanding Wholeness
The human egg is 99% fluid and 1% genetic material. Science tells us that 70% or more of the adult body is fluid. Yet, when we touch our clients, we primarily relate to the solid pieces, the bones, muscles, fascia, etc., which make up the 30%. There are a vast number of textbooks written about […]
The Geometrical Taxonomy
I studied sacred geometry1 about fifteen years ago because I was drawn to the concepts, the forms, and the ways these organize and exist in every living thing. Sacred geometry takes one into words like vesica piscis, tubed torus, Phi ratio, golden mean rectangle, Metatron?s Cube, Fibonacci sequence, the Platonic solids (sphere, cube, tetrahedron, octahedron, […]
Innovations in Caring
Amy Iadarola: I was excited to hear about the service work you are doing. Can you tell us a bit about the organization and how you became involved? John Barton: The organization is Caring Chiropractic, Inc. (CCI), formed in 2010 as an innovative 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Kalispell, Montana ? a thriving northwest Montana city […]
Some Third Hour Thoughts
During her basic practitioner’s class in Boulder, 1972, Dr. Rolf called the class over to look carefully at her Third hour model’s left side. The longer we looked, the more structural details we saw. Students began noticing that the model’s ribs were not evenly distributed and that some were deeper than others. They commented that […]
Saving Time, Money, and People
[:en]Welcome to the 21st century. In a matter of 50 years, this nation has gone from the industrial age, through the service age and into the information and technology age. Despite dramatic improvements in people’s lives, one thing has not changed: in the world of work, people still get injured just doing their jobs. These […]
What Is Integration?
Imagine the following scenario. A yoga instructor comes into your office saying she received structural integration work and is interested in continuing. Her structure suggests that she has had good work, her body looks fairly open, and her tissue feels responsive. Her main complaint is that, while her previous work proved beneficial, she feels somehow […]
The Melodies of the Tides
The idea for this article slowly emerged during a class in Energetic Osteopathy taught by Tom Shaver, D.O.’ During the class, Shaver used musical terminology (tone and frequency) to describe the osteopathic “tides” and suggested obliquely that they have an inherent melodic quality. These observations precipitated a tsunami of questions, some of which he later […]