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Structure, Function, Integration. Journal of the Dr Ida Rolf Institute. August 2021/ Vol. 49, No. 2

Dr. Ida Rolf Institute
Volume: 49
RICHARDSON, Alan.
Pages: 82-85
Year 2021
ABSTRACT Alan Richardson uses lockdown time in the pandemic to reflect on his training and career in Rolfing® Structural Integration and the value of our community
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MCCONNELL, Kathy
Pages: 81
Year 2021
Kathy has enjoyed practicing Rolfing® Structural Integration and craniosacral therapy in the San Francisco Bay Area for over twenty years. She closed down her hands-on practice in March 2020 due to the pandemic scramble, and began to receive poetry from the muses. She has also been pleasantly surprised to discover that distance healing is within her range of abilities since touch therapies were verboten for a time.
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BELLUZZI, Joy
Pages: 76-78
Year 2021
ABSTRACT Joy Belluzzi shares her story with Rolfing® Structural Integration, from receiving sessions to working for Dr. Rolf, to training as a Rolfer, to marrying Dr. Rolf’s younger son.
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DEMMERLE, Frances Eva.
Pages: 79-80
Year 2021
ABSTRACT Frances Demmerle shares how she became an osteopath and the influence that her grandmother, Dr. Ida Rolf, had on her career trajectory.
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KOLIHA, Larry
WARD, Bethany M.
Pages: 70-72
Year 2021
ABSTRACT Bethany Ward and Larry Koliha are both Rolfing® Structural Integration faculty while also being husband and wife; in this article they share their journey to co-creating their careers and their lives.
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LOEB, Katy.
Pages: 67-69
Year 2021
ABSTRACT This article proposes equitable pricing models as key to expanding access to Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI), as well SI’s opportunity to contribute to socioeconomic and racial justice in a capitalist system. This article also introduces specific models to consider
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AGNEESSENS, Carol
Pages: 64-66
Year 2021
ABSTRACT In this article, Carol A. Agneessens examines White privilege, racialism, and the unearned advantages of belonging to the White dominant caste in society. She discusses how racial bias may be held in an individual’s posture, visible in their gesture, and informed by their movement. There is a somatic exploration inviting the White reader to experience their felt sense of privilege.
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KOEPKE, Tristan.
Pages: 58-63
Year 2021
ABSTRACT This paper discusses aesthetic and phenomenological philosophies as a lens to understand and discuss Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) and its relationship to orientation, neutrality, and Whiteness. Three primary understandings of orientation are discussed to investigate the aesthetic standards SI upholds, and the racialized implications of such standards. The first orientation relates directly to the work of Dr. Ida Rolf and Kevin Frank. The second, integral to this work, relates to scholar Sara Ahmed’s explication of phenomenological orientation. Finally, the work of aesthetic philosopher Robin James explores how these models of orientation illuminate the ways SI may uphold Eurocentric hegemony. This paper outlines these orientations as an invitation to practitioners of SI, as well as all somatic educators and explorers to challenge their own understandings and assumptions of what a well-structured human should be. Questions are offered that may help somatic educators and scholars to question the ways in which they may, unknowingly, uphold Eurocentric hegemony in their philosophy and praxis. The author discusses his experience training as a Rolfer, and as a professional dancer and dance scholar, putting into conversation SI theories that are academic, somatic, and personal.
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MURRAY, Robert Kerrick
Pages: 54-56
Year 2021
ABSTRACT Rolfer William Redpath introduced his Trauma Energetics HeldEnergy SystemsSM work in a 1995 book. He followed up on this in a second book in 2020. R. Kerrick Murray here discusses the work and particularly the contributions of the new book.
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REDFIELD, Randall
HACK, Lina
Pages: 50-53
Year 2021
ABSTRACT In this interview, Randall Redfield, the Executive Director of Polyvagal Institute, discusses what the organization is teaching, how the group formed, and the application of polyvagal theory in the Rolfing® Structural Integration context.
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CORWIN, Heather
Pages: 44-49
Year 2021
ABSTRACT The author describes the connection between the mind and body in terms of her perspective as both a clinical psychologist and a Rolfer. Nervous-system states can reveal the client’s trauma history, even if not disclosed by the client. Corwin suggests practitioner intention, practitioner self-regulation, and developing professional community referrals as strategies to support clients to have a strong relationship between mind and body.
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HACK, Lina
Pages: 40-43
Year 2021
ABSTRACT In this article, Lina Amy Hack presents the work of author and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem, specifically the five-day e-course offered by his Cultural Somatics institute. The course is about racialized trauma, historical trauma, intergenerational trauma, persistent institutional trauma, and personal trauma. Menakem begins to introduce the ideas involved with ‘Black body’ trauma, ‘White body’ trauma, ‘police body’ trauma, and ‘communal body’ trauma. Hack discusses the implications for Rolfers and the application to Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) culture.
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KUESTER, Kristen
Pages: 35-39
Year 2021
ABSTRACT This article explores clinical protocols and self-care during global crisis, and recognizes the role of Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI): touch, physical presence, and real-time social engagement as an anchor to embodied life. It celebrates our work as a counterbalance to the increasingly virtual/seen-throughscreens reality in which we find ourselves. It identifies the required depth and fortitude to continue in our role as somatic practitioners when familiar external structures are uprooted and traumatic experience is rampant.
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PRADO, Pedro
Pages: 26-34
Year 2021
ABSTRACT In this article, Pedro Prado, PhD, brings to the fore the importance of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) for Rolfing theory and practice. The psychobiologic perspective of the work expands its assessment tools by making use of the work of Peter Levine, PhD (Somatic Experiencing®) and Stephen Porges, PhD (polyvagal theory). Prado presents these theories and makes correlations that can be useful for the practical application of SI.
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HACK, Lina
PORGES, Stephen W.
Pages: 18-25
Year 2021
ABSTRACT Polyvagal theory is reviewed in a short introduction, followed by a conversation with Dr. Stephen Porges. Porges’s history as research director with the Rolf Institute® (now the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute®) is discussed, as well as his body perception questionnaire, the term neuroception, and how Rolfing® Structural Integration can be polyvagal-informed.
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HOFF, Anne F.
ST. JUST, Anngwyn Hamilton
Pages: 15-17
Year 2021
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OBERMEIER, Konrad
Pages: 12-14
Year 2021
ABSTRACT The article provides a biodynamic account of embryology with specific focus on polarities such as the relation between the embryo and its environment and that between process and form in organ development.
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HEMBERGER, Ed.
DEFILIPPIS, Jason
EASON, Libby
JACOBSON, Eric
LANGEVIN, Helene M.
SCHLEIP, Robert
Pages: 6-11
Year 2021
ABSTRACT Close associates contribute to this remembrance of Thomas W. Findley, MD, PhD, who wore multiple hats as a Rolfer, researcher (fascia, rehabilitation medicine, structural integration), physician, editor, and organizing force behind Fascia Research Congresses. Findley was indeed a visionary, and he propelled the understanding of fascia in research and manual therapies well into the future. Those of us who are interested in the properties and mechanisms of fascia will be forever indebted to him for his contributions not only to the field of structural integration, but all manual therapies and basic science research as they are related to each other.
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S.I. (Structural Integration)
Pages: 5
Year 2021
Dr. Ida Rolf Institute seeks to make antiracism, diversity, and inclusion cornerstones of our educational experiences. DIRI provides equitable opportunities for students, faculty, and staff. We strive to maintain a climate and culture for success by engaging with diverse perspectives.
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S.I. (Structural Integration)
Pages: 4
Year 2021
The Dr. Ida Rolf Institute (DIRI) has been updating its diversity and inclusion policies, and a year and a half ago created a Committee for Diversity and Anti-Racism chaired by Tristan Koepke. The Committee did many hours of work, informed by experience and culture, to devise language that captures the spirit of DIRI’s intent. There are many federal policies that prevent discrimination, and those are listed in the statement. But the spirit exceeds those standards, and we wished to go further. After discussion with the Board of Directors, the final version of the diversity and inclusion statement you see on the next page was penned and approved on May 18, 2021. We hope the intent serves as an invitation to future enrollees at the Institute, and inspires other, similar organizations to adopt and publish their own statements. Moreover, a recent survey (crafted by Dan Somers, Board Member) included questions asking DIRI members how important diversity and inclusion should be in DIRI’s mission. There was an overwhelming response to the effect that these principles are very important. We thank the committee members: Tristan Koepke, Chair Mary Contreras, DIRI Admissions Coordinator Lu Mueller Kaul, DIRI Faculty Marekah Stewart, Rolfer® Brian Soderholm, Rolfer On behalf of the DIRI Board of Directors, Libby Eason, Board Chair
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HACK, Lina
HOFF, Anne F.
Pages: 2-3
Year 2021
We invite you to take the time to enjoy each of the articles in this issue, from trauma, to diversity, to the Rolfing family. It is quite a journey through these pages.
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S.I. (Structural Integration)
Pages: 01
Year 2021
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