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 […]
Thoughts About Scoliosis
4-19-82 Dear Colleagues, I would like to share with you (and present for investigation to our Research Committee) some thoughts about a heavy word: scoliosis. I seem to have worked on an unusual number of children recently, with different variations on the same theme: spinal curvatures and distortions. I perceived some common textural impressions from […]
On Collagen
The title of this book naturally catches a Rolfer’s attention; and it is worth some attention. The book is written for those who are neither engineers nor physicists; it’s a layman’s introduction to aspects of both. There is a lot in it about tensional and compressive structures, for those of us who are wondering about […]
Pain Terms
PAIN An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage. Note: The inability to communicate in no way negates the possibility that an individual is experiencing pain and is in need of appropriate pain-relieving treatment. Notes: Pain is always subjective. Each individual learns the […]
Depth
We all value Rolfing® as depth bodywork, on many levels. But depth has been a problem for Rolfing since its inception. Part of the reason that Rolfing got such a reputation for pain is that Ida Rolf kept exhorting her students to “go deeper!” Those of us who were just starting out in this business, […]