The Confluence of Neuroscience and Structural Integration
Kevin Frank: On behalf of the Rolf community, I want to thank you both for your upcoming presentation to our 2009 annual meeting and for taking time for this conversation. I hope we can give readers a sense of the overlap between your interviews with the stars of the neuroscience world and the work we […]
So You Want a Full Practice?
Do you want to increase your practice? Do you want more clients? More income to show for the time and effort you put into it – a greater return on investment? More fun? I can’t guarantee I can give you all that, but I can share my mistakes, successes, and lessons from thirty-three years of […]
Practical Considerations for Structural Integration, Biased by the Nervous System
Look at the jellyfish, floating in its nourishing environment – the sea – its fine tentacles united at the upper pole and webbed into the space it encompasses. Contemplating it may give you a floating sensation, a sense of connectedness and differentiation that resembles our nervous system. <img src=’https://novo.pedroprado.com.br/imgs/2010/1093-1.jpg’> In the following pages I want […]
The NAPER Clinic: A Vehicle for Continuing Education and Professional Development in Brazil
In 1998 a group of Brazilian Rolfers got together with the goal of creating a clinic for Rolfing Structural Integration that would function like the professional school clinics at universities and teaching hospitals. The clinic was set up to serve clients who might lack the resources to receive private sessions. Through this grass-roots project, we […]
A Tribute to Don Hazen, D.C., Certified Advanced Rolfer
Don Hazen was more than a colleague, he was a good friend. We became friends when, soon after he started to practice Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) in Berkeley, he invited me to dinner. That evening, I discovered that he was not only a good Rolfer but also an excellent cook. After dinner he brought out […]
Yielding
Overview For over ten years, we have been exploring the first developmental movement known as ‘yield’, as originally described by somatic innovator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in her Body Mind Centering system. This article combines contributions from both Hiroyoshi (Hiro) and Carol. Hiro’s contribution and insights into working with this gentle approach for shifting structure, movement […]
Breathing Through the Whole Body
Editor’s Note: Will Johnson will be teaching the concepts of this article through a sitting meditation retreat next spring. A unique feature of the retreat is that practice will be enhanced by each participant receiving sessions of structural integration (SI) during the retreat. (More information can be found at the end of this article.) We […]
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 […]