Sumer is icumen in, lude sing cuckoo! has never been more entertaining than with noted wackadoo and former American League All-Star left-handed pitcher Bill Lee. He will be expounding on baseball and pitching every inning (both sides) for a weekend…
This springtime and a fortuitous post by Rolfer™Sandy Collins on our Rolfing® SI forum have caused me to remember the brave folks of my practice: the ones who come in with their jaw half kicked off from kickboxing, those who…
When I was writing my paper to get into the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration, 1982, one of the questions was, "Speculate on the reasons why Rolfing SI lasts". Now, fast forward to 2011, and there is still only speculation…
The above line from "Burnt Norton" by T.S. Eliot is all the more haunting in its full surrounding lines. In part: "And the bird called, in response to The unheard music hidden in the the shrubbery, And the unseen eyebeam…
As thinkers go in the structural integration world, just like everywhere else that I know, we have those who proclaim the "letter of the law" as handed to them on personal flaming tablets. Truth is, the average person has no…
It is very du jour to talk about strengthening your "core" these days. This "core" word is one of those Rolfing SI words that made it into the Common Knowledge totally trashed of its real meaning, probably through a misguided…
The 40th anniversary of the legal founding of the Rolf Institute® of Structural Integration is upon us. Examinations of Rolfing SI itself and attempts to add to it from all fronts, as usual, are abounding. Additions or throwbacks are always…
The second most impassioned speech I ever heard came from my doctor who was at the side of my gurney, 1979. It seemed that surgery was necessary, and I was not buying it. Mind you, this was not an orthopedic…
The mind of Renee Fleming --as I wrote in the last post-- seemingly played a large part in her shrinking that I observed, and my post was a little dangerous in that You may have thought that I thought that…
I think we all do it...make ourselves small from time to time. Renee Fleming, probably 6'4" tall in her spike heels and solid as a brick outhouse, though not fat, stood tall in the first part of the 154th Anniversary…