Rolf Lines – WINTER/FEBRUARY 1997 – Vol. 25 – Nº 1

An Interview with MICHAEL MURPHY and BILL HARVEY

This article is a revised transcript of a presentation from the Berkeley 1996 Conference of Heirs, the centennial celebration of Ida Rolf’s birth. The talk was originally titled, “Motility as an Expression of the Body’s Relationship with Gravity.” Bob Brill, Rolfer and visionary, thankfully helped me to come up with this new and improved title.

In contacting another human being we, as Rolfing Practitioners, cannot help but stimulate the release and reception of information within that person. If the theories described in this writing are correct, then the processes of the storage and transmission of memory take place not only in the structures of the brain but in every living cell. Each moment of contact is a creative act where previously experienced information mingles with new. In this sense, our work with living tissue contributes to the reshaping of both our client’s personality as well as our own.