The Pleasures of Partnering in Life and in Our Work
ABSTRACT Rolfers and life partners, Gale Loveitt and Thomas Walker, share the dynamics of working together and being together click “download” to get full text in PDF
A Rolfing® Family
ABSTRACT Bethany Ward and Larry Koliha are both Rolfing® Structural Integration faculty while also being husband and wife; in this article they share their journey to co-creating their careers and their lives. [Authors’ note: Larry and I worked on this article together but, in keeping with the topic, we are family, and that means whoever […]
Reimagining Equitable Economics in Rolfing® SI
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The Somnambulant Trance of White Privilege
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A Phenomenology of Whiteness in Rolfing® S
ABSTRACT This paper discusses aesthetic and phenomenological philosophies as a lens to understand and discuss Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) and its relationship to orientation, neutrality, and Whiteness. Three primary understandings of orientation are discussed to investigate the aesthetic standards SI upholds, and the racialized implications of such standards. The first orientation relates directly to the […]
Notes on William Redpath’s Trauma Work and New Book Trauma for Beginners: Meditations and Commentaries
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Polyvagal Institute
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Trauma Support in Practice
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An Exploration into Cultural Somatics
ABSTRACT In this article, Lina Amy Hack presents the work of author and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem, specifically the five-day e-course offered by his Cultural Somatics institute. The course is about racialized trauma, historical trauma, intergenerational trauma, persistent institutional trauma, and personal trauma. Menakem begins to introduce the ideas involved with ‘Black body’ trauma, ‘White […]
Finding Resilience When Everything is a Threat
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