How Meditation Helps You Become Your Own Best Friend
Have you ever had the experience of a client getting up off the table and not being ecstatic about the work you did together? It feels like the rug got pulled out from underneath you and you’re not sure if you’re going to land on your feet or your face. It’s an experience we might […]
An Interview with Pianist Leon Fleisher
Michaela Orizu: How is the tour going? I’ve seen the schedule, it is quite busy. Leon Fleisher: It’s going very well. The orchestra is even busier than I am because they are playing everyday and I have one day off I think. It’s a very good orchestra, it’s a very good conductor. MO: You are […]
Pathophysiological Model for Chronic Low Back Pain Integrating Connective Tissue and Nervous System Mechanisms
[:en]<p> <img src=’https://novo.pedroprado.com.br/imgs/2007/828-1.jpg’> <p> SUMMARY Although chronic low back pain (cLBP) is increasingly recognized as a complex syndrome with multifactorial etiology, the pathogenic mechanisms leading to the development of chronic pain in this condition remain poorly understood. This article presents a new, testable pathophysiological model integrating connective tissue plasticity mechanisms with several well-developed areas of […]
The Pelvic Lift
WHAT’S IN A NAME? If you ask someone outside our community to perform the movement of a pelvic lift, what you will see is a strong upward thrust of the pelvis and active engagement of thigh, buttocks and abdominal muscles. A Google search for “pelvic lift” yields a half million entries. The first webpage […]
The Client Who Doesn`t Feel Anything
Q: Do you have any suggestions for working with clients who have little body awareness (for example, clients who cannot feel any change from a session, even though as a practitioner you can see changes have occurred)? A: Most of us have had some experience with a client who doesn’t feel anything. As we […]
Intra-Innominate Distortions
The pelvis is a unique structure. It functions as (at least) the major site of load distribution in the human body, the transition point between thorax and lower limb, the container of the lower abdominal viscera and the origin of new life. Its shape is complex, bilaterally symmetrical and beautiful. When one looks about at […]
Shoulder Tension and the Gestures of Daily Living
Questions: How can I use movement to help a client who has chronic shoulder tension? I remember learning “arm drops” in my training, but I haven’t seen much benefit from that exercise. What are some other ways to use movement to help my client with the tension in her upper trapezius muscles? Answer: In teaching […]
Half Full or Half Empty?
When I was asked to write for this column I had the same reaction you see in the Cathy comic strip (“ACK!”). When the editor approached Matt Hsu and me to write for Structural Integration (née Rolf Lines), I didn’t know where to begin. Past issues had really interesting historical takes on what Rolfing was […]
More About Focal Dystonia and Rolfing SI for Professional Musicians
While reading the very interesting conversation between Tessy Brungardt and Carolyn Pike entitled “Rolfing for Professional Musicians” (Structural Integration, September 2008), and specifically the material about pianist Leon Fleischer and focal dystonia, I found a sentence that motivated me to write something about my own experience with focal dystonia. The sentence that got my attention […]
The Advanced Rolfing Training
Robert McWilliams: I wanted to ask you about the advanced trainings because of your long involvement as a Rolfer and a teacher, having assisted, then co-taught the advanced training three times already for the Rolf Institute. Could you tell me a little bit about why the course is structured the way it is? Michael Murphy: […]