An Interview with Ida Rolf
IPR: What would you like to know about aging? How vou do it? Q: Do you say, “I’m an old woman?” “I’m an older person?” How do you talk about it? IPR: I am an old woman. But I don’t talk about it. I just go on putting one foot before the other, so […]
An Approach to Therapeutic Clarity for Somatic Practitioners
Every conscientious therapist of whatever persuasion at some point asks: how far can I trust my own perceptions? The answer is vital though hardly simple. All therapists be they psychoanalysts or rolfers, are its a powerful position vis-a-vis their clients a position that can easily be abused even with the best of intentions. This paper […]
An Osteopath Looks at The Rolf Method – Commentary
By Jocelyn Proby, D.O. Having been an osteopath for flits’ tears, it is possible that I am better qualified than sonic others to assess tilt Rolf method. I have been a Rolf fan ever since I met Dr. Rolf and began to learn something of her methods vents ago. I would like to say at […]
Apropos of Movement
It seems to me that movement is the great law of life, that every single thin moves. All forms move in the sense that everything appears, takes on form, functions and disappears. In the same sense, everything is horn, crows and then lies; or comes into being, chances, and then goes out of being. The […]
Tensegrity Concept Examined
It is the privilege of the newcomer to a field to question the basic concepts that all others have already accepted as self-evident. In my perception the tensegrity model as put forward by David L. Robbie (Orthopedic Review, Vol. VI, No. 11, November 1977) has become such a concept. During my preparation to become a […]
Implications of the Theory of Structural Integration for Movement Therapy
Many students of the nature of human affairs have observed that man’s outer world seems to be a projection of the world within. Ida Rolf proposes that many human dilemmas would be illuminated by examining man’s physical being, his body, and that a better organization of physical structures would be paralleled by a lessening of […]
Rolfing and Psychotherapy with a Psychotic Client
INTRODUCTION Peggy is a 30-year old woman diagnosed “atypical psychotic.” She is a graduate student in psychology and education, specializing in learning disabilities. Her psychosis was brought on by her experience with a therapist who hypnotized her and told her that she was a victim of incest and that her mother had tried to kill […]
An Interview with Judith Stransky, Alexander Teacher
Q Just what does a person learn through the Alexander Technique? A What you learn in the Alexander Technique is a grace, flexibility and ease that you apply constantly to everything that you do. This is as opposed, say, to the grace and flexibility learned in dancing which are not (necessarily) applied to daily life. […]
How to Involve Clients’ Movement During Rolfing Work
Just recently I started to understand the value of asking our clients to do certain movements while we work with them. It not only makes the mechanical “sculpturing work” easier and helps to sort out the different fascial layers; but it also can serve as an excellent tool to change or expand the movement patterns […]
An Introduction to Structural Integration
Most adults accept aches and pains and “that tired feeling” as a part of everyday life. To relieve this unease, some take a vacation, others explore psychotherapy. Relief is seldom more than temporary. Yet almost everyone is aware that they have the potential for a much fuller experience of life. The missing key lies in […]
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