Be More Specific and Get More Clients
When I moved to San Diego in 2009, I started going to business networking meetings. In pretty much any U.S. city (and I presume abroad as well), you will find groups of business people looking to meet other business people on a regular basis to develop mutually beneficial relationships. I’m not the kind of guy […]
The Rolfing® SI Life
Anne Hoff: Let?s talk about Ida Rolf and her lineage, since you go back to early days and have seen a lot happen in our Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) community over the years. It seems like Dr. Rolf embodied both the scientific and the metaphysical, and those are two threads that continue to inform our […]
Essential Works in Biodynamics
This quote from D.H. Lawrence could have been written about the study of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BDCST). BDCST is as much a training in perception as it is a therapeutic process. BDCST has given me the opportunity to immerse myself in a field ripe for impassioned study. Recently, I was asked to review some of […]
The Unifying Spatial Field
All Rolfers would agree that part of what makes our approach unique is our work with the body not just in terms of mobility, but in terms of its spatial order how the body’s parts relate to each other spatially and how the body as a whole is organized in gravity. However, saying that we […]
PT Codes
Frank Wu I use 97140, (Physical Manipulation), which works in Virginia. Try it, and divide it into 15-minute segments. Clay Cox Depending on the state that you practice in, you might be able to use 97140.1 bill four units at $25 per unit. In other cases, I use a combination of 99213 every month or […]
The Core Program:
If you’re looking for ways to help female clients strengthen and rebalance core structures, The Core Program (ISBN 0-553-80139-2) is a solid resource. The author argues that many of the nagging pains and discomfort clients experience are actually the result of core muscle imbalance. The book combines a very doable series of exercises with solid […]
The Core’s Role as Causal in Structural Distortion (reprint)
After attending the 1990 international conference in Boulder, what I have been suspecting for a few years was confirmed: namely, we are not succeeding in accomplishing one of Dr. Rolf’s primary tenets of Rolfing®, that Rolfing should decrease the compression of the lumbar spine, or at least arrest its compression as the individual ages. Observing […]
Sudaba: The Surrendered Dance of Balance
When I received my basic training in 1976, the Line (along with the conditioning effects of gravity and the malleability of fascial tissue) was presented as one of the three cornerstones of Rolfing” theory. The primary assumption that we were working with was that Rolfing was leading our bodies toward a condition of enhanced structural […]
Implications of the Theory of Structural Integration for Movement Therapy (reprint)
Many students of the nature of human affairs have observed that man’s outer world seems to be a projection of the world within. Ida Rolf proposes that many human dilemmas would be illuminated by examining man’s physical being, his body, and that a better organization of physical structures would be paralleled by a lessening of […]
Integrating the Life Force: Peter Levine and Somatic Experiencing
Q: How did you find out that the autonomic nervous system plays an important role also in Rolfing°? And how did this lead to SE? PL: I discovered the importance of the autonomic nervous system during my Rolfing training with Ida in 1969. When we were doing all these things to the muscles and fascia […]