Why Fascia Matters..
Brooke Thomas has written an excellent article about fascia, the tensional, fluid, springy, sensing organ that organizes the shape of your entire body called "The Top 5 Ways Fascia Matters to...
Read More »Brooke Thomas has written an excellent article about fascia, the tensional, fluid, springy, sensing organ that organizes the shape of your entire body called "The Top 5 Ways Fascia Matters to...
Read More »In her two part article, "How Rolfing Changed My Life," Angie Macdonald writes about her experience of Rolfing eloquently and with depth. As she indicates about her experience, going through a...
Read More »Fabulous! A well written, positive article about structural bodywork from the New York Times. The practitioner described in the piece practices Rolfing and Source Point Therapy which has roots in...
Read More »Imagine the fabric of a tent. It's up but something is not right. The clip and zipper in the front won't close correctly. You look and feel around the whole tent and find there is pinch down in...
Read More »I received a text from a client who came in with pain in her knees - one knee had been replaced two years ago and still hurt, one just hurt. She had just completed her sixth Rolfing session:...
Read More »Finding ways to keep moving, to stay active and free while at work, is a challenge for many people. Gregory Ferenstein has written a playful an informative article about recovering his health while...
Read More »"When the pelvis is not balanced, we do not have the upward thrust that creates zero balance, the sense of weightlessness that can be experienced in the body. When the pelvis is aberrated, it does...
Read More »Rolfing Practitioners sometimes work with individuals with cerebral palsy. A small study in California tracked the benefits of Rolfing with a group of children with cerebral palsy with very...
Read More »Rolfing sees the body as an expression of your immediate life and patterns of movement, posture and holding that have accrued over time. By addressing those patterns in a methodical and sensitive...
Read More »What does respiration look like? Check out this neat little GIF to see one animated view of our respiration and some of our animal friends'....
Read More »Freeing oneself includes many elements. One of the first and most important is learning to recognize, understand and disengage from inner judgment, that internal critical pattern that binds and...
Read More »Check out this video of what your bones are doing when you do yoga, or any stretching and moving for that matter. Doing Yoga in an X-Ray...
Read More »We are all bundles of energy. In fact, we are never not moving. We are never totally still. There is always some shifting, some swaying, some pulsing, some sighing, some movement somewhere in our...
Read More »In this excellent article from the New York Times, Eric Anthamatten explores what lies behind the phrase, "You throw like a girl," exploring what it means to not only have a body, but own the space...
Read More »"Running for as little as five minutes a day could significantly lower a person’s risk of dying prematurely, according to a large-scale new study of exercise and mortality. The findings suggest...
Read More »It's hard to find well written articles on the current thinking and research into fascia. But, lo! here is one: How a Mysterious Body Part Called Fascia is Challenging Medicine. It's wonky and...
Read More »We have so much to learn about movement. In this video, researchers have done an amazing job comparing dancers and sports athletes, and looking at how they land after a jump. "Dancers decelerate...
Read More »Eric Jacobson has written an excellent short history of Ida Rolf and Structural Integration in the Journal o Alternative and Complementary Medicine. ...
Read More »Many high level athletes, musicians and performers use Rolfing to keep their body open and aligned, reduce the wear and tear of training, and recover more quickly from injuries. In this video,...
Read More »Enjoy this little movie. Move like a baby. Move like an adult moving like a baby. Be moved like an adult watching adults moving like a baby. Rolfing in Boston/Watertown and East...
Read More »"Watch a child carefully; you'll see that he seems to move with an outer layer of his body. His bones don't seem stabilized. Children go on this way until they get to adolescence. They operate...
Read More »When you have chronic illness your attitude toward what affirms your life can shift. One person's understanding of that: "We are vulnerable creatures; that is what we share as humans. Being...
Read More »Although Rolfing Practitioners have been making a life study of fascia for decades, we are still learning a great deal about it, how it functions, how it relates to the nervous system and pain. ...
Read More »A colleague of mine, Dr. Eric Jacobson, conducts research on alternative medicine at Harvard Medical School. In 2009 he received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a pilot...
Read More »"There are schools of chiropractic that work only in the neck. What they are implying is that any imbalance in the lower part of the body will manifest as imbalance up above. That far, they're...
Read More »Your posture is not static. It is a dynamic expression of your history and the present moment, of your relationship to the earth and your personal environment. Even your body's center of gravity is...
Read More »Opening up to new ideas.. It's the same whether you're discovering your body and brain likes new inputs and movement experiences; or you're just diving shallow into some area of interest. This...
Read More »"Over and over again, people come to me, and they tell me 'You just don't know how strong I am.' They say 'strength' and I want to hear 'balance.' The strength idea has effort in it; this is not...
Read More »When you are in chronic pain, nerves that are part the signaling process have become irritated, overly sensitized, constrained by protective tightening in surrounding soft tissues, and restricted...
Read More »Check out this wonderful video that illustrates how changing maps we carry in our brain and nervous system about our body effects how our body feels: "Illusions could halve the pain of arthritis"....
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Read More »"In the first hour, the fact is that a Rolfer is working only superficially, but this is not what the man's body tells him. It's telling that individual that we're working down to his soul. We're...
Read More »This a very good video about how the sacrum moves and how the position of the pelvis and lumbar spine affect the stability of the sacroiliac joint. Note though! The sacrum does not move quite as...
Read More »Yesterday I did an interview on ExtremeHealthRadio about Rolfing. We talked for a good hour about a variety of aspects of Rolfing and health, ranging from the connections between alignment and...
Read More »The best way to change your posture is from the inside out. Healthy, lasting postural changes don't come from training your muscles into an ideal shape. They come from learning new ways to sense...
Read More »We are not built the same, and won't move or stand or squat the same. Follow the link below and read this excellent little blog post about the variations in our bony anatomy, in this case, of the...
Read More »Always nice to get a great, unexpected email like this from a client: "I am amazed! I used the trick you taught me yesterday when I was sitting at the dining room table doing some work that...
Read More »Very happy to have been featured on the local news. I have been doing Rolfing at Embolden for three years. It's been great! Now, how can we get Rolfing at your...
Read More »Follow this advice..do the parts you can do..imagine and sense the other parts..and see how you feel. "Put your feet on the ground Spread your toes a little bit Take a good breath or two Reach...
Read More »Emile Conrad Da'oud died recently. She was a true pioneer of movement awareness, exploration and embodiment. I had the great pleasure to do a training with her twenty years and it profoundly...
Read More »It seems that every few weeks I come across another article with another point of view on what makes for good running/walking/sitting, etc. I don't see this as necessarily a bad thing actually. It...
Read More »Read an excellent article in the recent Spirituality & Healing Magazine on Rolfing.. "It’s about changing the patterns in the body that create postural problems, and pain issues. It’s a very...
Read More »I am excited to be teaching two classes on Experiential Anatomy for Yoga at the Bristol Yoga Studio! Exploring Flow and Continuity Through the Shoulder – April 26 1-3pm Exploring Flow and...
Read More »A cartoon Dr. Rolf included in one of her books. Charlie Brown had it hard, but he had some wisdom to show for it....
Read More »"To most people, change is necessarily good. It isn't, necessarily. It has just a good chance, if applied randomly, of being bad. It is possible to change a joint by many means, including...
Read More »A wonderful article about exploring ways our perceptions affect our physiology. "Does mean that the facts don't matter, that it's what we think of the facts that matters? "I don't think I...
Read More »For athletes, the activities we love are also hard on our bodies, particularly if we have underlying structural problems. As a consequence, we have injuries that accumulate in "slow motion". These...
Read More »The Ten Session series was designed by Dr. Rolf so Rolfing Practitioners would have a way to systematically work with a wide range of clients. Rather than a paint by numbers approach, the Ten...
Read More »By restoring and improving the alignment of the body, Rolfing increases the efficiency of how you move. This is helpful for daily living, of course, but also for the professional or "hard core"...
Read More »It is one thing to take something apart; it is another to know how to put it together in a way that will work and last. Simply releasing tension in the body’s musculature and fascia with...
Read More »Your lower spine is supported by many structures. It's deepest support comes in part from a system of muscle and fascia that wrap your lower spine and the internal organs in front of it like a...
Read More »"I am dealing with problems in the body where there is never just one cause. I'd like you to have more reality on the circular processes that do not act in the body, but that are the body. The...
Read More »The last three sessions of the Ten Series form a kind of rich unit unto themselves. Sometimes the ninth session is called "the other half of the eighth session" (much like the fifth hour is very...
Read More »Improving the structural alignment of your body is a sophisticated art and skill. If that is what you are looking for, you need to see someone who is properly trained in that skill. That way they...
Read More »A first session with a new client. He has had a lot of physical trauma, bad falls, some surgeries that were good, some that were not so good. He has pain in lots of places. So, we began with a...
Read More »"All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused." - Martha Graham...
Read More »I want to stay loose and free, keep growing because it's fun. Read the excellent suggestions an 84 year old Kurt Vonnegut gave to a high school English class....
Read More »When you have chronic pain, it means your body is out of alignment with gravity, fighting against itself and creating chronic strain. When pain becomes chronic, the cause is no longer one specific...
Read More »Rolfing is a form of Structural Integration. Integrating the structure of what? The human form, the body, the person. The last three sessions of the ten series emphasize integration more than any...
Read More »A client came in for her fourth hour session. At this point, after three sessions, there's some ease and familiarity with each other. Before we "get to business" we just catch up a bit, about...
Read More »Fascia is the connective tissue organ of your body. Your body's organ of shape and structure. A three dimensional web with pockets and tubes that surrounds and penetrates all your muscles, organs...
Read More »I am pleased to announce that I will be teaching two "Experiential Anatomy" Classes at Bristol Yoga Studio in Bristol, RI. Exploring Flow and Continuity through the Shoulder - April 6th, 1 pm -...
Read More »https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaDldYuvZ3o&feature=youtu.be Fascia is the tensional organ that surrounds and supports all of your body's pieces and parts, every muscle, every bone, every...
Read More »After almost any session of Rolfing, the client will tend to feel a bit more grounded and a little bit taller, like there is more space above and more room below. The seventh hour of the Rolfing...
Read More »Let's explore the inner sense of our bodies, specifically our diaphragm, the primary mover of air in and out of our bodies. Trace your fingers very slowly along the lower border of your rib cage....
Read More »I am curious as to what is going to happen next. I just finished a Ten Series plus a couple of extra sessions with a client. A gentleman now in his mid sixties, in his youth he went to war and he...
Read More »"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson As you enter the sixth hour of the Rolfng series, you can appreciate...
Read More »This is a series of pictures of a boy before receiving Rolfing and after the 10 session Rolfing series. Like the movie "Sliding Doors", imagine two different lives, one with the point...
Read More »The way you walk through a room is the way you walk through the world. Our grand life is made up of daily activities. Take time to discover the space and ease within your body, to learn how to...
Read More »Good posture is not a matter of pulling your shoulders back and lifting your chest. You may have lengthened your front, but to do it you have shortened your back. You want a balance of space and...
Read More »"Go around the problem; get the system sufficiently resilient so that it is able to change, and it will change, It doesn't have to be forced. It's that forcing that you have to avoid at all costs."...
Read More »The fourth Rolfing session in the Ten Series is a transition for the Rolfer and the client. The focus of the work shifts from what are considered the "superficial" fascial planes and moves to what...
Read More »Foam rollers are incredibly popular right now. And they can be useful.. for increasing circulation, reducing some of the tightness in muscles, increasing sensory awareness, and just play. But...
Read More »A client has long standing chronic pain associated with fibromyalgia and several car accidents. After four sessions, she has had considerable improvement. Then the tests came. That is, exams...
Read More »From U.S. News & World Report: "After eight years with the Philadelphia Orchestra, C.J. Chang, the principal viola, says he "couldn't really play more than 10 minutes without severe pain."...
Read More »The third Rolfing session in the Ten Series deals with your body's "lateral line," the length expressed through the sides of your body. This work through your sides is an area most bodywork simply...
Read More »These photos are of the same woman before her first and after her last session of the Ten Series of Rolfing. Imagine how it feels to be in the first body versus the second. Transformation is...
Read More »Every structure needs a good foundation, a good base of support. Being upright, in fact the only truly upright mammal, we need a foundation that is both stable and adaptable. We need to be able...
Read More »During a session today, a client said, in an off hand, as though it were no big deal, "I'm taller since doing Rolfing." Pause. "Is it because I am straighter, or because there is more space...
Read More »One way to describe the aim of Rolfing is to organize the body so you are better aligned in the field of gravity, so you can literally stand taller and breathe easier. The first three sessions of...
Read More »Rolfing is different than most forms of bodywork. Rolfing aims to improve the organization of your body's entire structure and how it is aligned in gravity. Rather than focusing only on a place...
Read More »When we experience short bursts of stress, we naturally go into a fight or flight response. If we are chronically stressed, that response becomes fixed, lowering our natural immunity. Try this. ...
Read More »Good bodywork, good movement work doesn't just do something to you. It does something with you and in you. You learn things. Rolfing does do things to you. But it's deeper intent and impact...
Read More »My spine said thank you today. I've taken good care of it over the last many years. As a kid, I ran around bonkers for hours at a time, rolling, twisting, pressing, pulling, wrestling, stretching,...
Read More »Dr. Rolf recognized that the position of your pelvis is the fundamental for the organization of your whole body. You need both flexibility and proper alignment all around your pelvis: in the...
Read More »Freeing Chronic Tension Around the Face and Jaw The physical tensions we carry in our bodies pull us out of alignment. Being well aligned in gravity requires that we free these chronic patterns...
Read More »Some relationships come and go; others last a lifetime. One relationship we have our whole lives but rarely think of is our relationship to gravity. From birth, our bodies are in a constant, dynamic...
Read More »These images were made from photographs of a woman undergoing ten sessions of the Rolfing technique. Some things to notice through the progression of the images. Her head is more balanced...
Read More »These are some of the books and web sites I recommend to my clients and people who are interested in finding out more about Rolfing, the human body and mind, and how we can best heal them both to...
Read More »Greg was featured in this Rhode Island ABC6 news story about Rolfing....
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