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 […]

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 […]

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 […]