What We Have in our Hands
It isn’t often that a newborn person meets a pair of hands that offer Rolfing Structural Integration; yet when this meeting does happen, growth assistance that can gently guide the structural accomplishments that are actively expressing can be offered to this fresh human organism. The newborn baby is still pulsing like a singular pouch of […]
Rolfing® SI for Babies, Children, and Families
Introduction Starting in 1975 with one of Dr. Ida P. Rolf’s grandchildren, I have worked with hundreds of babies, children, and whole families. My intention and commitment is to see Dr. Rolf’s vision realized in our work and thereby create fundamental changes to the world we live in. In the last year of her life, […]
Working with Children
A: I very much like working with children and work with infants, children, and pre-adolescents. In my Basic Training, during the auditing phase (yes, it was during that time, the ‘Stone Age’ of Rolfing SI), Stacey Mills – our Rolfing instructor – had organized an afternoon with children of different ages, from babies to […]
The Three-Dimensional Foot, Part 2
This is a follow-up to my article “The Three Dimensional Foot: The Role of the Toes and Metatarsals in a Typology of Transverse- Arch Rotations” (Boblett 2014). I presume readers will enter this with a knowledge of the previous article’s contents. Very briefly, I presented five types of foot patterns: two presenting in Internal clients, […]
Snowflakes Falling
Snowflakes Falling Each One Landing No Place Special 1. Snowflakes are l ight. They f loat unpredictably in the air. They have a bit of mass, so they do eventually land, somewhere. They offer us a chance to imagine the freedom of a body in motion and the event of falling and landing. What […]
Biotensegrity Summit Report
On Thursday September 17, 2015 the First Biotensegrity Summit gathered in Reston, Virginia. I had the great pleasure to attend this and the preceding Biotensegrity Interest Group, or BIG, which was celebrating its seventh meeting, and out of which the Biotensegrity Summit was born. Run jointly by John Sharkey (famed clinical anatomist, exercise physiologist, and […]
Integrating the Fourth International FRC
Earlier this year I had the good fortune to be awarded a scholarship from the Ida P. Rolf Research Foundation and the Rolf Institute® Research Committee to attend the Fourth International Fascia Research Congress (FRC) in Washington, D.C. I would like to start by expressing my gratitude to both organizations for their support. My report […]
An Overview of the Fourth International Fascia Research Congress
I begin with a disclaimer and an apology. Since I did not attend the three previous congresses, this overview of the Fourth International Fascia Research Congress, which I attended on a scholarship from the Ida P. Rolf Research Foundation and the Rolf Institute® Research Committee, lacks historical perspective. One of the principal organizers of the […]
The Long Body
Brooke Thomas: Today I am having a conversation with Frank Forencich about the ‘long body’. I’m quoting Frank here: “Our perception of the human body as a singular, isolated unit, strong as it may be, is actually an illusion and a dangerous one at that. In actual fact, we are massively interconnected with the […]
The Reptile and the Mammal Within
Three and a half billion years ago, life began in the oceans. A pond scum called cyanobacteria started to capture energy from the sun and spit out oxygen. Then, 1.85 billion years ago, oxygen levels were high enough to cause an increase of several magnitudes of complexity in living organisms. Eventually the ‘Cambrian explosion’ occurred, […]