Remembering Alan Demmerle
By Joy Belluzzi, Certified Advanced Rolfer™ In 1978, I had the profound honor and gift of working for Dr. Rolf as her personal secretary. It was during that time that I met her son, Alan Demmerle. Unlike his older brother, Richard, who had followed in his mother’s footsteps and trained as […]
Remembering Monica Caspari
By Pedro Prado and Heidi Massa, Certified Advanced Rolfers™ and Rolf Movement® Practitioners ABSTRACT Monica Caspari, of São Paulo, Brazil, was for many years a key figure in the Rolfing® Structural Integration community worldwide. Her contributions, through her teaching and her writing, are enormous. Here she is remembered by two colleagues. We also share a […]
Observations of a Blind Rolfer™
By Monica Caspari, Rolfing® and Rolf Movement® Instructor and Tomas Makiyama, Certified Advanced Rolfer and Rolf Movement Practitioner ABSTRACT Monica Caspari interviews Tomas Makiyama, a blind Rolfer in São Paulo, Brazil, about Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) training, body readings, and his insights into creativity and adaptability, among other topics. Introduction by […]
Dialoguing with arms in the Ten Series
By Lael Katharine Keen, Basic and Advanced Rolfing® Instructor, Rolf Movement® Instructor ABSTRACT Rolfing and Rolf Movement Instructor Lael Katherine Keen gives a detailed overview of how to incorporate arm work into the Ten Series to support integration not just of the upper limb but the whole body. The […]
Waking Up Primordial Movement Patterns
By Michael Boblett, Certified Advanced Rolfer™ and Kevin Frank, Certified Advanced Rolfer and Rolf Movement® Instructor ABSTRACT Michael Boblett interviews Kevin Frank on the art of reaching back into the human – and pre-human – family tree to reawaken lost patterns of movements. What sets this interview apart is a firm emphasis on […]
The Hands – Our Tools, Our Expression
By Bibiana Badenes, Certified Advanced Rolfer™, Rolf Movement® Practitioner The body often expresses itself through the hands. By relaxing them and allowing them to move with fluidity, we can release and relieve blockages in other areas of the body. Helping our clients to be more aware of their hands and to teach them exercises they […]
The Three-Dimensional Hand, Part II
By Michael Boblett, Certified Advanced Rolfer™ ABSTRACT This article focuses on the phylogeny of the human hand. Paralleling his earlier work on the evolution of bipedalism from Ardipithecus through Australopithecus to the genus Homo, Boblett examines the no-less-radical development of the hand. Though our hands look far more similar to those of our simian […]
The Three-Dimensional Hand, Part 1: Get a Grip!
ABSTRACT The focus of this article is on freeing and strengthening the human hand. Specifically, Michael Boblett presents some practical ideas you may pass on to clients. There is a list of stretches designed to make the hand more flexible by freeing the various proximal phalanges and their respective metacarpals from being stuck to one […]
Bringing Hands and Arms Back Into the ‘Recipe’
ABSTRACT A conversation about hands and arms with Jan Sultan.The discussion explores the contrast between how hands and arms were underemphasized by Dr. Rolf and the modern inclusion of that material in the ‘Recipe’. Lina Hack: Let’s dive in, do you remember any moments with Dr. Rolf where she discussed the hands and arms […]
The Complexity and Reasoning of Keeping 3D Hands and Fingers
By Valerie Berg, Rolfing® Instructor, Rolf Movement® Practitioner what if you lost your hand? I did! This morning, before you even got out of bed, most likely your fingers grasped the edge of the sheet to move it or you scratched your face, your arm. Maybe you reached over and hugged someone next to you. […]