The Rossiter System®
The Rossiter System® is a method for targeted relief and prevention of structural pain – i.e., pain created by overuse, injury, trauma, abuse, or stress – in which practitioners coach clients to resolve their own pain by restoring normal joint range of motion in space. The techniques employ the client’s weight-assisted, active, vectored stretching of […]
How to Be Found Online
Introduction Marketing has changed in the past ten years ? so much and so rapidly that former experts have no use of their vast experience any longer. It used to be the company reaching out to prospective clients, trying to get its information, logo, and an attractive offer in front of as many people as […]
Move in Mind™
Beginning in 2009, Certified Rolfer and Rolf Movement® Practitioner Monica Canducci found herself treating clients with severe neurological injuries such as stroke and spinal-cord damage. Monica adapted her Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) technique to their circumstances by using memory and imagery within the principles of the Ten Series. After having considerable success in her own […]
Gracovetsky on Walking
INTRODUCTION Without it necessarily coming to consciousness, each of us carries an idea of biomechanics, a model, that reveals itself in our manner of moving. As practitioners, these assumptions will inevitably shape our interventions. The structural perspective is one of the most common of models. It implies that, like a building, the body is built […]
The Fascia (reprint)
Philosophy of Osteopathy was written and published by Andrew Taylor Still in 1899. Especially interesting is its picture of therapeutic premises, manipulative and otherwise, at the turn of the present century. Andrew Taylor Still, founding pioneer of Osteopathy, lived and worked in Kirksville, Missouri, where he established a school, the American School of Osteopathy, still […]
The Gate Control Theory of Pain
The unfortunate inability of surgeons to consistently abolish pain by making lesions in the supposed pain transmission systems, at every level of neural organization, is notable. This led one investigator, nearly fifty years ago, to question some of the hypotheses of the traditional view.’ In some cases, he reported, pain is increased by surgical lesions; […]
Making Fascia User-Friendly
Sound complicated? Hundreds of American manufacturing employees would beg to differ. This article is the first of a two-part look at Certified Advanced Roller Richard Rossiter’s connective tissue techniques and their use in organizational and therapeutic settings. This segment introduces you to the basics of Rossiter’s work and shares highlights from ten phone interviews of […]
The Cylinder Model – Part II
My imaginative, anatomical drawings thus far have been theoretically inclined. I have focused on illustrating the body’s largest, most global, natural divisions, which might be describable as its largest macro-functional units. So far I have not tried to be accurate or literal in depicting, for example, numbers of vertebral segments or ribs. Instead I have […]
Our Body of Ethics
Ethics comes from the heart. Procedures come from the lawyers. The work of the Rolf Institute’s° Ethics and Business Practices Committee is to apply both properly when dealing with a complaint against a Rolfer. The basis for legal action against the Institute in an ethics case would generally be our failure to follow our own […]
Explorations in Body Image (reprint)
I. SEPTEMBER 1968 As a human being newly emerged from ten hours of processing in Structural Integration at the hands of Dr. Ida Rolf and one of her students, I am eager to set down some of the most dramatic first-wave reactions and impressions. My initial reaction was moderate shock: apprehensiveness and confusion leading quickly […]