Muscle Repositioning (reprint)
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, (2008) 12, 213-224, published by Elsevier Ltd. Reproduction and distribution, or selling or licensing copies, or posting to personal, institutional or third-party websites are prohibited. Please see the author’s Postscript, which follows the references, for developments since the Elsevier publication. SUMMARY The […]
The Feet in a Functional View of the Body
Q: I’ve noticed that many clients lack a sense of presence in their feet. Their tissue is hard and unresponsive, there is little differentiation of the bones in the midtarsal region, and they either feel pain or don’t feel anything when I work on their feet. Often when I am working, they tend to space […]
Dimensional Touch
The greatest sense in our body is our touch sense. It is probably the chief sense in the processes of sleeping and waking; it gives us our knowledge of depth or thickness and form; we feel, we love and hate, are touchy and are touched, through the touch corpuscles of our skin. Lionel Tayler(1) […]
Including the Stomatognathic System in Rolfing SI
Editor’s Note: The gathering of the selections that follow, as well as their development, organization, and translation from the Portuguese, is the joint effort of Heidi Massa and Pedro Prado. Including the Stomatognathic System in Rolfing SI A Collaborative Experiment in Broadening Our Scope Introduction The structural and functional importance of oral reflex functions and […]
Seeing the Ground of a Movement: Tonic Function and the Fencing Bear
This article introduces the idea that movement has two parts – a figure and a ground. Figure means, in this case, the literal action expressed in terms of shape or biomechanics. Ground means the background of the movement that occurs in the tonic system of the mover. In addition, the topic of seeing is […]
On Gait: It’s Hard Looking from the Inside Out
David Clark has been an Certified Advanced Rolfer/Rolf Movement Practitioner for thirty years. He lives and works in the Tampa, Florida area, occasionally taking time out to assist in teaching Rolfing classes.</i> When first asked to do an article about gait, I wondered what could be added to what we already have recently said about […]
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 […]