The Century of the Body: Fascia, Yoga and the Medicine of the Future
Yoga, bodywork and other therapies that tap into the transformative potential of the body’s fascial network have an important role to play in this process. In this interview with Yoga U Online, Tom explores the transformative potential of the body’s fascial network and its implications for the future of yoga and yoga therapy.
Art Riggs Interview on Rolfing and Deep Tissue
Art Riggs giving an interview to the Massage Nerd. It’s long, but filled with great information on Rolfing, Deep Tissue and the difference between Rolfers and Massage Therapists.
Bad Bodies or Bad Bike?
It’s astonishing the money and time many elite and ‘weekend-warrior’ cyclists devote to retro-fitting racing bikes to conform to their bodies rather than first restoring function to the most critical piece of racing equipment… the rider’s body!
Peter Melchior talks about Ida Rolf and Structural Integration
So good to hear Peter Melchior’s voice. His gave so much to the community during his lifetime. Here he is talking about Ida Rolf, Ph.D. (the creator of Structural Integration) and what this type of bodywork can do for a person. Thank you Peter, you are missed.
Rolfing Structural Integration Intro with Creator Ida P. Rolf, Ph.D.
An old video introducing the work, looks like it’s from the early 70’s:
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. […]
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.
Rolfing Back In Vogue, But With Shaky Evidence: NPR
Rolfing has become a favorite again — this time among the yoga-Pilates-acupuncture crowd.
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 […]
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.”
Bodywork as Meditation
“Openness to a different type of listening and following are essential for the meditative to emerge.”
Rolfing® is about Core Experience
“The first principle of Rolfing® is that the body must relate continually to the physical force of gravity. The various segments of the body must be more or less aligned one on top of the other, or else the external muscles begin to labor to maintain the upright posture.”
