Natural Walking and Running
In this culture we study walking and running biometrically, yet we still don’t understand how to do either correctly. For whatever reason we adopted our walking style, we invariably create a limited approach to dealing with gravity.
Piano Virtuoso Uses Rolfing to Help Heal His Hands
“In 1982, feeling stronger, Fleisher made a first attempt at a two-handed comeback. He made it through the concert, but realized it was what he called an evening of pretense. He wasn’t really healed. It wasn’t until the mid-’90s that his problem was given a name: focal dystonia, a neurological disorder that can be triggered [...]
Rolfing Structural Integration Video Demonstration
Great description of the work in the first part of this segment. She articulates the benefits well, although that table should be lowered for the woman getting worked on at the end. Overall a good segment.
Room for Improvement
When I mentioned to people that I was trying Rolfing, some folks wondered how folfing, otherwise known as Frisbee golf, would make you healthier.
Others wondered why anyone would voluntarily go see someone who made you throw up or “rolf your guts out” as one friend put it.
Do Cortisone Shots Actually Make Things Worse?
In that early experiment, more than half the patients who received a cortisone shot for tennis elbow or other tendon pain suffered a relapse of the injury within six months.
Rolfing Back In Vogue, But With Shaky Evidence: NPR
Rolfing has become a favorite again — this time among the yoga-Pilates-acupuncture crowd.
Meeting a Client Where They are At
If I am too wrapped up in my own goals I can totally miss that my client may, for instance, want their lower back touched. This may be completely therapeutically irrelevant, but it is what they want.
Effects of soft tissue mobilization (Rolfing pelvic lift) on parasympathetic tone in two age groups.
Pretty interesting stuff, basically the “pelvic lift” which is traditionally performed in most Structural Integration sessions was objectively found to increase parasympathetic tone (the body’s relaxation response) in men 26 to 41 years.
Lying Meditation
This is a lying meditation you can do where you scan your body slowly looking for tension and consciously relax each area.
Rolfing, Excruciatingly Helpful
A former dancer of 14 years, Anna Zahn is in touch with her body. To gain more flexibility, and to counteract some of the strain from dancing, she has tried a number of remedies: Reiki, acupuncture, yoga. But she still felt tight, her body tense. So she started getting Rolfed — a kind of deep-tissue [...]
The Importance of Body Awareness
Often times these signs of distress are just the body’s way of asking for us to slow down. It’s such a fast paced world we live in that it is easy to get caught up in what comes next. What about now?
Emotional Healing
As we worked she spontaneously recounted abuse she had suffered as a child from her mother. They have long since reconciled and she has no bad feelings toward her but this trauma was still in her body. What a thing to let go of!
Vibram Five Fingers
These shoes give you the ability to walk or run with the feel of being barefoot, but with the protection of a thin sole beneath your feet.
Awaken the Spine
I have come to understand that Structural Integration is first and foremost an exercise in developing self awareness. As a practitioner I can only guide my client through this process of self discovery, but it is their journey of awareness. With awareness comes change in the body, the more we listen to our own internal signals of distress the more power we have to change unhealthy and habitual patterns.
Vogue Features Rolfing
Given rolfing’s inaccurately negative rap, many recent trainees of Ida P. Rolf’s methods (developed in the ‘40s and popularized, or some might say primal scream-ized, at the infamous Esalen Institute in the ‘60s) refer to themselves as she did—as practitioners of structural integration.
Oprah’s Dr.Oz on Rolfing
Dr. Oz recommends a technique called Rolfing, which he describes as “even deeper than a deep-tissue massage.”
“Yoga is Evil”
“Sometimes I feel a little odd when people ask if I “do” Yoga, it’s comparable to asking if I “do” art. Yoga is something one becomes, not something one does.”
What is Rolf S.I.?
“Structural Integration seeks to awaken changes in the body using deep touch, core movement and awareness.”
Bodywork as Meditation
“Openness to a different type of listening and following are essential for the meditative to emerge.”
Using Tennis Balls for Tension Relief
“The tennis ball is a great tool for self care because it is firm and resilient, yet yields to pressure nicely.”
