SourcePoint Therapy and Its Implications for Rolfing Structural Integration
The SourcePoint Blueprint and “The Line” SourcePoint Therapy theory brings with it the powerful implication that the “vertical line,” Dr. Rolf’s “line of gravity,” is an actual energetic structure – an energetic organ with a function as vital to our being as breathing. Rolfers talk about “the Line” as an indicator of order; but it […]
Movement Strategies for the Stomatognathic System
Introduction As the Rolf Institute’s Little Boy Logo shows, structuralists tend to emphasize the role of the pelvis in postural organization. Yet infants initiate the organization of verticality from G-prime (G`) – the upper center of gravity – first by following caretakers with the eyes, and then by raising the head and chest with the […]
Approaches to Psoas Work
Introduction The psoas muscle and its role in human structure has drawn much attention from Rolfing practitioners from the early days till the present time. It has been perceived as a “mysterious” and “emblematic” element of Ida Rolf’s work. Historically, it has been identified and held responsible for the perception of how “deep” Rolfing […]
Dr. Strangegait, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Hip Extension
Matt Hsu is a Certified Rolfer and certified Egoscue Posture Alignment Specialist in San Diego, CA. He co-teaches Seeing Made Easy, a class designed to help structural integrators make accurate assessments, formulate effective intervention strategies, and become better resources for their clients. More information is available at http://seeingmadeeasy.com. When not working with clients, Matt is […]
The Ground of Movement
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. Joseph Campbell Have you ever heard the joyous shrieks of parents as their infant child takes her first steps? The “oohs,” “aws,” and digital […]
Mental Health Is in the Body
Have you ever wondered whether, as a trained and experienced Rolfer, you can properly deliver a normal Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) series to a client who appears to have mental or emotional problems? The answer is yes, especially if you understand the true basis of mental health, which is in the body – a realm […]
Who Moves?
I would believe only in a God who knows how to dance Nietzsche The Enigma of Self-Moving Of all the things that inhabit this vast universe, nothing is more enigmatic than what is closest to us – our own nature. We know ourselves to be conscious beings, capable of both abstract thought and complicated […]
The Relationship of Continuing Education and Practice Building
Anne Hoff: As we planned a theme around Practice Building for this issue, I felt it was important to discuss education. As much as it?s crucial to attend to business ? our websites, networking, marketing ? it is also important to continue to develop professionally, and there?s many ways that can directly or indirectly impact […]
The Mystery of the Ten-Series Symbols – Solved!
In the December 2013 issue of Structural Integration: The Journal of the Rolf Institute®, I published an article about the symbols shown in Figure 1. I remembered these from class t-shirts when I did my Rolfing® Structural Integration training in the mid- 1990s, but I couldn’t find a source for this set. Variations on the […]
“Let us go then, you and I”
This is a most curious book, a personal journey of discovery rather than a theoretical treatise. We might more properly say that we have here a most curious pair of essays that the author sutures together rather loosely and with inexplicable haste. In Anatomy of Potency (Stillness Press, 2000), author Nicholas Handoll covers considerable ground […]