ROLF LINES, Vol XXIII nº 01, March 1995

Written in loving memory of our dear friend, colleague and Board member Deanna Morlini Lanfranco whose life was cut short by heart disease

“Many thanks go to Sydney Frasca and Jeffrey Maitland for their editing assistance, to Tina Layton for her secretarial abilities, and to Adam Clark for his computer and research skills without which getting this paper off the drawing board would have been horrendous.””…simple, everyday, run-of-the-mill, bipedal walking is among the most crucial and defining elements of human nature. Humans, in fact, are the only mammals on the Earth designed to walk in a habitually upright position,… So unique is the notion and the architecture of bipedal walking that it may very well be the hallmark of our species: We are, in essence, the way we walk. “M. GamesOmni Magazine, January, 1993

Rolfers make a life study of relating bodies and their fields to the earth and its gravity field, and we so organize the body that the gravity field can reinforce the body’s energy field. This is our primary concept.Dr. Ida P. Rolf (1)

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is mystery.”Albert Einstein”The placebo is proof that there is no real separation between mind and body.”Norman Cousins?The most beautiful thing we can experience is mystery.”Albert Einstein”The placebo is proof that there is no real separation between mind and body.”Norman Cousins?The most beautiful thing we can experience is mystery.”Albert Einstein”The placebo is proof that there is no real separation between mind and body.”Norman Cousins?The most beautiful thing we can experience is mystery.”Albert Einstein”The placebo is proof that there is no real separation between mind and body.”Norman Cousins?The most beautiful thing we can experience is mystery.”Albert Einstein”The placebo is proof that there is no real separation between mind and body.”Norman Cousins?The most beautiful thing we can experience is mystery.”Albert Einstein”The placebo is proof that there is no real separation between mind and body.”Norman Cousins?The most beautiful thing we can experience is mystery.”Albert Einstein”The placebo is proof that there is no real separation between mind and body.”Norman Cousins

Paul Gordon is an Advanced Rolfer and Fascial Anatomy Instructor who practices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and on the Southern Coast of Maine. What follows is from a talk he gave at The American Back Society meeting last December Paul says: “Eight out of every ten people experience disabling back pain at some point in their lives. It brings more clients to Rolfers than any other complaint. Although the subject here was the healing process and chronic back pain, I believe the process described is relevant not only to bad backs, but also to gimpy knees and broken hearts. So often people come to us wanting an answer a cure. What I have attempted in this short paper is to explain is why they are frequently disappointed. People can and do get better sometimes, as we know, marvellously better When they do, it is usually because they have a different outlook and have employed a different process.”