Rolfing® SI and CrossFit
The human body is a wonderful organism that is able to adapt to structural challenges. In fact, structural challenge is required for the body to be at its maximum potential. If we don’t load and stress bone it will lose strength and mass. The same holds true for tendons, ligaments, and the nervous system. Challenges […]
Four Fundamental Relationships in the Foot
All Rolfers™ know that the feet are important for structural integrity. Looking at the feet pictured here, you can predict that there will be trouble above, at the knee, pelvis, spine, thorax, and neck. You could even make inferences about the way in which structures above the feet would be displaced based on how the […]
Recollections of a Post-10 Rolfing® Intervention
Introductory Note from Sally Klemm: When Richard Melton, sixty-four years of age, first came to me as a client, I learned he was an avid reader and a writer. Still, I was amazed and gratified to receive, some months after our work had concluded, his commentary on the experience and the results he had achieved. […]
An Excellent Adventure
Every once in a while something comes along that changes the parameters of what we imagine to be possible. Rolfing® Structural Integration did that; it forever changed the prevailing notion that bodies follow an uninterrupted spiral towards decrepitude. It introduced the concept of connective tissue as a mutable, plastic medium, and we, as Rolfers, have […]
The Mother of All Taxonomies
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Sink or Swim
I got off easy in the Boulder County flood of September 2013, and for that I am grateful. I live in Niwot, Colorado, and as the joke goes, we live in an environmental bubble: while there was torrential rain on every side of us the day of the flood, and a mile and a half […]
A Commentary on Stecco’s Fascial Manipulation Work
As a Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) instructor I am keenly aware of the limitations of our training process. By any measure Rolfing and other SI trainings are too brief, unable to expose students to even the relevant knowledge that has been accumulated in the thirty-four years since Ida P. Rolf wrote Rolfing: The Integration of […]
Postural Release
Under the name of Structural Dynamics, and its implementing manipulative technique, Postural Release, a significant area in human experience is being explored. Subjectively speaking, it is a study in awareness. Objectively, its outline was delineated by Cuvier in 1821: his description, however, referred specifically to paleontology. “Every organized being forms a whole, a unique and […]
Ida Rolf on Pain
There is no painful experience apart from the motor intent to withdraw from the experience. The desire for self-preservation, inertia, resistance to change are understandable and predictable. The experience of change to the average man often manifests itself as “pain.” p. 275 ? It could hardly be expected that the profound tissue changes documented in […]
Shin Splints
Don Hazen Shin splints are the result of an inflammation of the periosteum of the Tibia. The periosteum is the fascial sheath which covers the bone and into which tendons insert. Running on hard surfaces (the first week of winter track season used to do it) and/ or excessive pronation place strain on the periosteum, […]