Fix Your Own Dang SHOULDER
An article in New York Times last week by Jane Brody has prompted me to take up the cudgel once again for fixing one's own self. In this case, shoulders can be one of the most aggravating injuries of our…
Apologie to Françoise Mézières
I have been accustomed to talking about the "Big Three" of bodywork, and I'm gonna stop doing that, Francoise Mezieres deserves to be added to the pantheon. It is the "Big Four". Ida P. Rolf, Francoise Mezieres, F.M. Alexander, and…
Rolfing® Structural Integration Definition in 64 words
There is a force for good all around us. It is called Gravity. It keeps us from flying off the earth. When some parts of us stick out over others, Gravity hates that and has its way with those parts,…
Rolfing®Structural Integration and addiction
Let me be clear, I am not talking about clients becoming addicted to Rolfing SI!! I'm talking about the illegal and the legal substances that can mess up our systems. These substances go to our brain and create dependency there…
Rolfing® Structural Integration Definition in 87 words.
Rolfing Structural and Movement Integration is a method for improving consciousness and awareness of how we use our bodies within the field of gravity which influences us all. The method also actually improves the structure and function of the body…
Posture and the art of Seeing, and Being Seen.
Some folks have a certain softness, a look about the eyes, an observance, an allowance. This soft look sometimes reminds me of T.S. Eliot's lines: "music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music…
Semiotics of Neurophysiology and history in Rolfing® Structural and Movement Integration
Subtitle: Post-Traumatic Stress, The Polyvagal Theory, Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy, and historical neurophysiological states, with additional thought on meditation and prayer as stress management approaches. (Just having a li'l fun there, folks.) Sometimes when reading these posts, I suppose the…
Those twisty seams on your Jeans
The problem: you get home from a walk and your jean seams are no longer down the sides of your legs, maybe wandering around to the front and back. Sometimes only one leg seam is twisted. What made that happen?…
Rolfer™: NOT an embalmer!
The next person who says, "Now How Can I Keep This" is gonna get it. Full voice and energy. No whimpering, even though this happens often enough that I would like to whimper. Here's what I will say: "Rolfing Structural…
Dunk your own dang basketball
There are certain gifted folks in this world, the Michael Jordans, the "AIR" ones. There are others who can learn "air". I am gonna tell you how to do this in 500 words and a few links or less. When…