‘Homework’: Why and How?
Rita Geirola Introduction As Rolfers®, we all have had the opportunity to witness how our work improves our clients’ lives, whether their physical structures or, sometimes, deeper, more all-encompassing transformations. When clients experience the benefits of the changes that have happened, they wonder how to ‘keep’ the new, pleasurable organization and often ask for advice. […]
Bringing Other Modalities into Our Work
ABSTRACT Many Rolfers study and include other modalities in their practices, following the lead of Ida Rolf, who was deeply influenced by osteopathy and pointed some of her early students and teachers toward explorations of the cranial system. Here faculty of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute® discuss adding other modalities to our work. Q: […]
Ninja Movement Exercises and Vertical Bone Alignment
ABSTRACT The author, Tsuguo Hirata, studies ninja movement arts from a teacher of that form who also exemplifies in his movement the goals of Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI). He shares with us the importance of proper alignment of vertical bones, which allows gravity to transmitting through the bones, which in turn allows soft-tissue tensions to […]
Deviating from the ‘Recipe’
ABSTRACT Dr. Rolf’s ‘Recipe’ gives us a proven and intelligent way to work with body and ‘being’ to achieve structural change. The author shares her personal experience, both as client and practitioner, on the need for learning to trust yourself to ‘deviate’ from the Recipe. In addition to her experience, the author believes the Recipe […]
On the Origin and Spiritual Dimension of Rolfing® SI
ABSTRACT This article describes the early influences that shaped the development of Rolfing Structural Integration (SI). Dr. Rolf’s training as a biochemist and her commitment to a materialist view of the body is shown to be complemented or perhaps complicated by her interest in ‘energetic’ descriptions of bodily events. A review of her biographical details […]
Tales from the Closet
I graduated from the Rolf Institute® [now the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute®] in September of 2017 and was fortunate to have an office waiting for me at a fitness center of a college near Dayton, Ohio. This is a great start for me because the management created my website, advertised with flyers, takes payments […]
Thoughts on Practicing and Teaching the Ten Series and the Seventh Hour
ABSTRACT Sterling Cassel interviews Basic and Advanced Rolfing® Instructor Sally Klemm about the Ten Series – when and how she practices it, and thoughts on teaching it. They also give particular attention to the Seventh-Hour work on the cranium as Klemm is also a teacher of craniosacral work. Sterling Cassel: The Ten Series is the […]
A Tribute to Rosemary Feitis
ABSTRACT The late Rosemary Feitis was an early and influential publicist of Rolfing Structural Integration (SI). She was instrumental in getting Ida Rolf’s books published, in the management of the early school, and in the foundation of the Rolf Institute®. She was also a Rolfing practitioner, homeopath, osteopath, and author. We are indebted to her […]
Memories of Vivian Jaye
ABSTRACT To honor Vivian Jaye’s life and passing, Jane Harrington, her longtime Rolf Movement partner and good friend, was asked to write about Vivian’s contribution to the Rolf Instite® (RISI), now the Dr Ida Rolf Institute® (DIRI). She, in turn, asked DIRI faculty Pedro Prado and Libby Eason to share their experiences with Vivian. […]
Instructor Dialogue
ABSTRACT Larry Koliha and Bethany Ward, Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) instructors and also a couple, share thoughts about the Ten Series, both in teaching and in practice. Larry Koliha: I firmly believe that what Dr. Rolf investigated and came up with is a fantastic model. The Ten Series works with all the regions and layers […]