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East Asian Medicine — A Summary of Six Days Across Six Months of Study
Introduction From April to October 2019, I studied East Asian Medicine. The course ran at Kei.K Aroma Studio in Kanagawa, Japan — six days in […] -
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IMAC — A Summary of Twenty-One Days Across Six Years of Training with Hiroki Sato
From December 2015 to December 2021, across six years, twenty-one days. I studied a method called IMAC with Hiroki Sato — everyone calls him Hiro […] -
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Part 4: Reading Gait Through Gravity — Tonic Function and Palintonicity
Part 1 took up the foot, Part 2 the lower leg and the pelvis, Part 3 the psoas and the diagonal. Structurally, we have climbed […] -
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What My Body Learned Walking in Shikoku
Four days on a mountain, a rope bridge, and a corridor with no light in it Japan has two opposite traditions of walking, and for […] -
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Part 3: The Leg Begins Below the Ribs — The Psoas and the Diagonal
Part 1 looked at the foot, Part 2 at the lower leg and the pelvis. The point of view has been rising one level at […] -
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How Healing Comes About — Jeffrey Maitland’s Four Approaches
How does a person heal? Jeffrey Maitland carried that question for a long time. He was a tenured professor of philosophy, a practitioner of Zen, […] -
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Where Rolf Movement Came From — A History from Ida Rolf to the Present
Introduction Rolf Movement is a course of training set apart from the hands-on work of Rolfing, approaching the body from the side of movement. It […] -
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Part 2: The Problem in the Foot Is Not in the Foot — From the Lower Leg to the Pelvis
Part 1 followed how the foot collapses and locks within a single step: 26 bones, the alternation of hinge and spiral, three arches. But as […] -
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How the Rolf Movement Practitioner Certification Works — The 30-Day Requirement and Choosing Where to Train
Introduction The Rolf Movement certification training is a thirty-day program, set up separately from the Rolfing basic training. When you complete all of it, you […] -
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How to Choose Continuing Education — Four Things I Look At Before Signing Up
Once you are certified, what you study is yours to decide. In Rolfing, the Advanced Training requires eighteen credits. Which courses fill them is not […]
