Excruciatingly Slow Motion Movements
Dr. Rolf’s primary ‘how-to’ in our work is: “put it where it belongs and ask for movement.” In the full range of possible movements and motions, using excruciatingly slow motion (ESM) movement is a highly productive technique. This article will explain: what it is; how to find it; things to be aware of with your […]
Conceptual Housekeeping
In a complex and evolving inquiry standpoint such as Rolfing Structural Integration (SI), it is sometimes useful to perform what could be called “conceptual housekeeping.” Its purpose is to examine the fundamental concepts that define our work in order to determine whether they are still viable in light of new developments. Interestingly, two recent articles, […]
Replacing Shoulder Tension with Shoulder Support
This article shares an approach to helping clients develop healthy stabilization through the shoulder girdle. While Rolfers systematically release upper shoulder-girdle tension, the release may be unsustainable unless the client acquires a new and better habit for shoulder and arm coordination. I have found, over several decades of practicing Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI), that a […]
Rolf Movement® Faculty Perspectives:
Author’s Note: This is the first in a series of interviews with Rolf Movement practitioners who incorporate movement studies within their practices in interesting ways. Over the past twenty years, Aline Newton and I have often participated in workshops taught by Hubert Godard. When we were together in October of 2013 attending a class held […]
A Brief Talk About Ida Rolf
Ida Rolf often said she would rather be remembered for her work than for her life story. Consequently there is little written biographic material about her. Let me offer you a brief picture of who she was, as painted by myself, her non-Rolfer son. Her view that the only thing that mattered was what she […]
Plasticity and Flexibility in the Development of Organisms
What exactly is our true plasticity and flexibility within the physical and cultural environments into which we are born and in which we develop? Scientists from such diverse disciplines as molecular genetics, evolutionary and developmental biology, anthropology, neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, comparative developmental psychology, and sociology have for some time now been focusing their attention on this […]
The Re-Constructive Use of Pain (reprint)
What of pain as a factor in psychological and physiological evolution? How much is known about pain, and the larger syndrome of stress to which it belongs? How does it function in the learning process, in the development of the self-concept, in inhibition, in consciousness: can it be used constructively to facilitate deep-seated personality changes? […]
Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction
INTRODUCTION For the purposes of this paper I will use the phrase “Temporomandibular Pain Disorde Syndrome” (TMPDS) for what has commonly been called “Temporomandibula Joint (TMJ) Syndrome.” TMPDS is defined by a triad of primary symptoms: 1. Pain and tenderness of the muscles o mastication. 2. Joint sounds with jaw opening. 3. Limited mandibular movement. […]
The DFA Movement
Some people will remember Annie Duggan and Janie French teaching al the Rolf Institute® as Movement Instructors in the 1980’s. The movement work of that time was designed to help the clients take advantage of, inhabit, and fully utilize their newly “Rolfed” bodies. Annie and Janie explored movement patterns with their clients by helping them […]
Address to the Rolf Institute Annual Meeting, 1974
Fonte: Structural Integration 2003 You all know about the vertical line; is you did not, I can’t imagine that you’re be here. The vertical line of Structural Integration is an abstraction, but it is more that an abstract vertical line. Probably you have never considered the possible significance of a biological vertical line. Have you […]