The Wisdom of Uncertainty in Movement
Sensation is not something we can grab onto and hold. Sensation is vague and absolutely essential at the same time. Have you ever been frustrated by not being able to do a movement today that you accomplished easily yesterday? Have you ever felt “now, I got it!” one day and then lacked that feeling another […]
Rolfing® SI and the Brain
Introduction I interviewed Rolf Movement® Instructor Kevin Frank to discuss a working model from neuroscience that supports Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) with a credible explanation and story – why it works. As background, let me share a part of my story. The Rolf Movement aspects of my basic Rolfing training completely changed my way of […]
On Seeing and Body Reading
Q: <i>As Rolfers? we are taught various models and tools for body reading, and we each have our own proclivities and strengths that come into play in this ? whether we see in terms of anatomy, a particular model, energy flow, etc. Can you discuss how this has evolved for you in your own practice, […]
Eight Days in the Mountains
Editor?s Note: Over the years, this Journal has published articles by Will Johnson and reviews of various of his books. This past spring Johnson led an eight-day Buddhist retreat that focused on the application of Dr. Rolf?s vision of the ?Line? to the practice of sitting meditation. As an integral part of the program, all […]
Self, Other: New Considerations in Rolf Movement® Integration
Kevin McCarthy: I’m curious, having traveled extensively to teach and work in the U.S., Europe, and abroad, what draws you back to Brazil and what do you think the strengths of the Brazilian Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) community are? Monica Caspari: Rolfing [SI] in Brazil promotes or is very much interested in movement and that’s […]
Peripheral Nerve Work – Compare and Contrast
I attended Dr. Jean-Pierre Barral’s class on peripheral and cranial nerves in 2005. At that time I’d been Rolfing® twenty-seven years. The discovery that nerves were 1) palpable, 2) manipulable, and 3) the source of many skeletal distortions, made a sudden and profound impact on the way I interacted with tissue. Christoph Sommer has written […]
Beyond Pain in Rolfing
INTRODUCTION In 1911 was part of a Rolfers’ delegation to China. I was a new Rolfer and anxious to experience the exchange between Rolfers and Doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine. We were to learn something about Tuina (TCM Massage) and we were going to demonstrate Rolfing to the Doctors at the Guang An Men Hospital […]
Structural Stretches
Stretching changes the tonus of the myofascial web. Stretching systematically, with the Principles of Rolfing and Rolf Movement Integration in mind, and change the human shape, as well. If we perceive through the sensations that stretching produces, explore our limitations of form through micro-movements, and be present to the resulting tissue releases and autonomic discharges, […]
Report of the Archivist
The Rolf Institute has in its possession audio tapes (cassettes) of Dr. Rolf lecturing and teaching in the 1970’s. These tapes are old but still in relatively good condition. Some of the tape sets have various tapes missing. Beginning in October, 2001, I undertook to transfer these recordings tc digital media both for preservation and […]
Ethics
The hallmark of a profession is the recognition that the work its member: perform influences, sometimes in an extremely direct, profound, and immediate way, the lives of their clients. The powerful nature of this influence makes the ordinary rules of the marketplace (based on the principle of “buyer be ware”) inadequate. Society asks the members […]