Mental Health Is in the Body
Have you ever wondered whether, as a trained and experienced Rolfer, you can properly deliver a normal Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) series to a client who appears to have mental or emotional problems? The answer is yes, especially if you understand the true basis of mental health, which is in the body – a realm […]
Who Moves?
I would believe only in a God who knows how to dance Nietzsche The Enigma of Self-Moving Of all the things that inhabit this vast universe, nothing is more enigmatic than what is closest to us – our own nature. We know ourselves to be conscious beings, capable of both abstract thought and complicated […]
The Relationship of Continuing Education and Practice Building
Anne Hoff: As we planned a theme around Practice Building for this issue, I felt it was important to discuss education. As much as it?s crucial to attend to business ? our websites, networking, marketing ? it is also important to continue to develop professionally, and there?s many ways that can directly or indirectly impact […]
The Mystery of the Ten-Series Symbols – Solved!
In the December 2013 issue of Structural Integration: The Journal of the Rolf Institute®, I published an article about the symbols shown in Figure 1. I remembered these from class t-shirts when I did my Rolfing® Structural Integration training in the mid- 1990s, but I couldn’t find a source for this set. Variations on the […]
“Let us go then, you and I”
This is a most curious book, a personal journey of discovery rather than a theoretical treatise. We might more properly say that we have here a most curious pair of essays that the author sutures together rather loosely and with inexplicable haste. In Anatomy of Potency (Stillness Press, 2000), author Nicholas Handoll covers considerable ground […]
Ida Rolf Rolfing: Did It Hurt?
Fritz Smith The realization, or maybe I should say experience, was that Ida didn’t hurt me while she was Rolfing me. This was totally incongruous with what we students were doing with each other. Those other Rolfings really hurt. I was in pain when others worked or me and I hurt people when I was […]
Reflections on Function and Structure
OVERVIEW I came to structural integration from a background of dance and movement. One could say that I went from a functional orientation to a structural orientation. My movement background had a strong structural influence and effected my development as a Rolfer. Later, my perception of function and structure shifted from participation in the Continuum […]
Roots, Flowers and Pollen
PREFACE In attempting to write a brief history of manual therapy I have encountered the twin challenges of quantity and diversity of information. While the history of manual therapies could rightfully fill an encyclopedia, certain crucial topics are very underrepresented in the literature. The available information also comes from a wide range of cultures, and […]
Psyche, Soma, and Rolfing in the Context of the Tao
Carl Jung once said that all life processes are purposeful. Nobel Prize winner Szent-Gyorgi said that there is a “drive in living matter to perfect itself.” Chinese philosophy/ physiology, summed of in the symbol called Tai Chi by the Chinese and commonly known elsewhere as the yin/yang symbol, describes a natural process (a drive) by […]
Internal Correlates of Relapse Prevention
That there be no repeating of sex offenses is, of course, the foremost aim and goal of the treatment of sex offenders. It comes ahead of goals such as the abatement of other pathologies, increasing self-esteem, or reunifying families. Toward this goal, there has been a great deal of study of the causes of sex […]