Crosby, Still, Nash and Young Member Uses Rolfing to Help his Hands
Stephen Stills says he long ago “got sick of being a rock star.” These days, the Florida-born 66-year-old says he’s content with just “being a musician,” which means playing the hits, trying to stay healthy and, when his aging hands cooperate, being the one and only Stephen Stills on the guitar. In a surprisingly candid and […]
Clinical Trials: Structural Integration for Chronic Low Back Pain
A clinical trial is starting up in Boston. If you are in the area and have the symptoms, you can receive treatment and get paid! What a deal. I’m excited to see what the results are of the study. “RESEARCH STUDY Do you have Chronic Low Back Pain? If so, we invite you to join […]
Video Explaination of Rolfing Structural Integration with Robert Schleip, Ph.D.
Robert Schleip, Ph.D. presents the basics of Rolfing Structural Integration at the International Fascia Research Congress. He explains typical techniques used during a session.
The Hand of God: Tom Pathe on Self Rolfing
This is a little heady and metaphysical, but I think it’s also a beautiful description of the deep connection to the body that Structural Integration can be a part of. He specifically refers to doing work on your self, but this applies to any type of somatic work. I love his description of allowing the […]
Rolfing 101
[I found this great blog post about discovering ease in supporting their head through Rolfing Structural Integration, enjoy] If someone had told me, before I tried it, that bobbling my head would help my hip I would have thought they were crazy. I’m getting Rolfed, or, to put it more descriptively, I’m getting structurally integrated. […]
Low Back Stretches from The Rolfer Golfer
Here is a great video of some low back stretches anyone can do at home or on the golf course.
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.
