We can only speculate. There have been no double blind studies on changing connective tissue using structural integration techniques. In the beginning of Ida Rolf's work, Dr. Rolf by experience knew only of working with dead connective tissue. She had…
The field of biological nomenclature has never been so challenged as when in the late 1980's an intellectual Rolfer™ (oxymoron alert!) got hold of the word "taxons" to describe the different ways that Rolfers can approach their work and managed…
In the interests of full disclosure, I should mention that the last time I was involved in a presentation or improvisation of a John Cage composition, several people in the audience got up and ran out just before a weather…
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…
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…
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 has been a few years since rehabilitation physician Judith Peterson M.D. decided to leave Philadelphia and her work at Jefferson Hospital and the Pennsylvania Ballet. Her husband, a cancer doc, wanted to go back to South Dakota and she…
My very first experience with mind/body medicine that I really noticed happened in 1968 or so in young Dr. Schwartz's office in Kansas. I went in to see old Dr. Schwartz, but he had brought in his son for vacation…
Sitting around the table yesterday with my dear immediate family, I realized that I am also grateful to you, dear readers. In spite of the highly personal nature of this website, subscribers have continued to grow. Some Russian and Polish…
Helen James, a California Rolfer™ who has been mentioned in this blog before related to her work with ice skaters, has completed a study based on measurements she made with her clients. She has been busy in her "retirement" from…