2014

The word “Palintonicity” comes up frequently in Rolfing. Derived from the Greek word palintonos, meaning “to stretch in opposite directions,” it is hard to grasp because […]

The Phase II training has reached its midpoint. Away from work and from where one was born, in an entirely different setting and drawing on […]

In Rolfing, body reading calls for observing gait and standing posture very often (for concrete instances of body reading, see “Session 1: Organizing the Breath“ […]

This is the second of three pieces in the Letting Go of Tension series. The series was written during Phase II of the Rolfing Basic […]

The first three Rolfing sessions center on organizing the superficial regions of the body (see “The Sleeve Sessions”). Session 1 takes the upper body (see […]

The first three sessions of Rolfing focus chiefly on ordering the superficial parts of the body. Session 1 is the upper body, Session 2 the […]

Session 1 covered the importance of holding an awareness that separates the upper body from the lower, organizing the upper body, and above all organizing […]

This is the first of three pieces in the Letting Go of Tension series. The series was written during Phase II of the Rolfing Basic […]

Introduction As this blog has discussed, Rolfing is a method that works primarily on the fascia within the structure of the body, so that the […]

Introduction Rolfing is carried out across ten sessions. The circumstances under which Ida Rolf developed Rolfing were taken up in “Training Phase I: Completing the […]