Reviewed by Christina Fenendael, Certified Rolfer®, LMT

ABSTRACT Irish Rolfer Barry O’Brien, PhD, shares his knowledge about the Enneagram, the popular nine-type personality construct, and describes its value when working with his Rolfing clients.

ABSTRACT This article is an exploration of yoga concepts and poses, and how these movement explorations engage the fascia system. Darrell Sanchez, PhD, Rolfer, and Rolf Movement Practitioner discusses where yoga and Rolfing SI overlap as somatic practices.

ABSTRACT In our ongoing feature of Rolf Movement instructors, we have a discussion with Rita Geirola about her path as a Rolfer, Basic Rolfing instructor, and Rolf Movement instructor. Geirola describes how she is open to the opportunity to change and grow. She has incorporated her experiences from the Rolf Movement instruction of Hubert Godard with her study of Feldenkrais Method®, Pilates, the Mézières Method, and her own infectious joy for life. In this interview, Geirola discusses how her curiosity led her on a journey from being a physical education teacher to Basic Rolfing Instructor and Rolf Movement® Instructor, together with how she continues to evolve in her practice and teaching.

ABSTRACT Just like the ease that a person experiences when standing on their ‘Line’, as Dr. Ida Rolf described, people move with ease when they apply the wisdom of the tonic function model, as retired, French Rolf Movement Instructor Hubert Godard has described. In this article, Dr. Ida Rolf Institute® faculty member, Per Haaland, reviews his own path learning, practicing, and teaching Godard’s tonic function model from workshops with Godard himself, as well as a mentorship with Rolf Movement Instructor Kevin Frank.

ABSTRACT In this article, Rolfer Dr. Heather L. Corwin examines the evolution of becoming a parent as a Rolfer alongside the challenges that are faced with this change. Areas explored include career, body image, being a female, and cultural expectations. Dr. Corwin investigates her personal struggles with body tension, pregnancy, and the trauma of giving birth. The goal of this exploration is to offer manual therapists and movement colleagues a practitioner’s insight into the lifespan challenges that we and clients endure.

ABSTRACT In this intimate interview, author and former Rolfer Nicole Black discusses her book Fat Shame and some of the body image insights from her experience with Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI). Black shares some discerning ideas about what SI practitioners can think about when working with clients who have experienced fat shame. Lina Amy Hack

ABSTRACT Rolfer and Rolf Movement Practitioner, Monica Canducci, presents two case studies of women with body image issues. Canducci reports how she worked with language and imagery alongside her structural integration interventions to support these two clients to have integrated psychobiological embodiment.

ABSTRACT The Swiss Regional Association of the European Rolfing® Association, called IDA, represents all structural integration (SI) professionals in Switzerland – Rolfers, Rolf Practitioners, and Anatomy Train Structural Integration (ATSI) practitioners, etc. In this interview, IDA president, Theres Maibach, describes the history of IDA, how the Swiss SI professionals came together to be recognized by the government as a profession within the complementary therapy category, and the vision of IDA for the future.

ABSTRACT In this interview, Rolfer Lina Amy Hack talks with the Director of the Associazone Italiana Rolfing, Marina Blandini, and Italian Dr. Ida Rolf Institute® faculty member Pierpaola Volpones about Rolfing® Structural Integration in Italy, the challenges they have experienced during the pandemic, and the strategies that are helping them persevere. Editor’s note: This conversation took place on March 21, 2022.

Speaking about the embryo is inseparable from the conceptions of life and nature that culture provides. These abstractions and theories are contained in cultural narratives in which the embryo floats, like in a womb. It is impossible to talk about the embryo without recourse to such narratives and it is impossible to fully understand the ‘story’ of the embryo without taking into account that these narratives have plasticity. Editor’s note: In this article, art and science are interwoven. The author offers a lyrical discourse, a survey of the historical and academic origins of our current understanding of the human embryo. I thank the author for allowing our imposition of footnotes, in service to our diverse readership.

In this article, Dr. Carla Stecco describes the application of cadaver studies for manual therapy, the histology of fascia, and the innervation of fascia. Editor’s note: This interview was conducted in person on September 9th, 2022, a day before the start of the Sixth International Fascia Research Congress held in Montréal, Canada (see page 99).