The Felt Capacity to Do WorkThe Felt Capacity to Do Work
Working with Energy By Jeffrey Maitland, Advanced Rolfing® Instructor, and Deborah Weidhaas, Certified Advanced Rolfer™, Rolf Movement® Practitioner Deborah Weidhaas: Okay, I’ll start with this: my definition of ‘energetic’ is that the root, or origin, of what’s happening in the structure is mental, emotional, or spiritual. So, what’s present in the client’s structure is […]
Energy Work
Re-conceptualizing an Inclusive Spectrum of Interventions within an Informational Model of SI Preamble: Two Interventions Looking for a Home Personal history: In 1979, a friend who practiced homeopathy did an experiment to see if he might affect elevated blood pressure using his newly acquired acupuncture doll – a two-foot-high model of the body with labeled […]
The Energetic Taxonomy
Q: Ida Rolf was a scientist, but she also had an interest in how Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) affected human beings on many levels, including the energetic. How do you relate to the energetic taxonomy and see its impact on SI outcomes? How can we represent that dimension of our work in a plausible manner […]
‘Burned from Within’ and Droop Neck Syndrome
I learned a lot about bodies and about Rolfing SI in my training at the Rolf Institute®. But I learned a great deal more from my clients and their bodies through the practice of the art and science of Rolfing SI. This article is about what I learned from two particular clients. People and […]
Closure
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. Viktor Frankl Author’s note: This was written in August 2016 and read to my graduating class. I just finished my third ever Ten Series with a client from the public. The completion of these sessions goes along with the […]
Human Doings of Human Beings
Anne Hoff: Heidi, you’re active as both a Rolfer and a lawyer. Aren’t those radically different professions? Heidi Massa: Not really. Right after finishing my training as a Rolfer, I mentioned the new career direction to a medical psychiatrist I know. His astute reply: “It doesn’t matter. Either way, you straighten people out.” AH: So […]
Melding Interdisciplinary Fields
The Pieces of My Puzzle People are diverse. Lives are complex. Interests diverge and intertwine as people gain wisdom and experience. This shows up in peoples’ lives through how they educate themselves, where they live, and what career(s) they pursue over a lifetime. Personally, my convergence of all of these areas can be defined as […]
Masculine Emotional Intelligence
Owen Marcus Being an emotionally intelligent man is not an oxymoron. Being behind the emotional curve is the fate of most men. We can’t seem to connect emotionally. We try our best, but so often fail at expressing what we feel. We leave interactions feeling incomplete and unable to articulate our experience to anyone. We […]
Liberated Body – Where Body Nerds Unite
Introduction by Dorothy Miller: At the time of this interview, Brooke Thomas had just wrapped up the third season of her Liberated Body Podcast. During the first three seasons, Brooke produced sixty-one shows in which she explores the work of researchers, practitioners, and educators from a variety of fields that focus on the amazing entity […]
The Art of Rolfing® SI and the Art of Sculpture, Part 1
Forget the anatomy and take on art and you’ll look at a body as something built around a line, a vertical line. I came late to my ‘Line’. At age thirty-one in 1978 I underwent a Ten Series in Santa Barbara, California, with Rolfer Hal Milton, ostensibly for a back problem. I did not know […]