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Basic Training
Phase III (13) — Insecurity and Security
Half of the Phase III training is over, and the remaining four weeks have begun. From this week the training moves to a different place […] -
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Space Is Felt Differently by Each Person — Tonic Function and Peripersonal Space
This is the sixth of six pieces in the Body and Mind series. The series was written across the periods of Phase II and Phase III of the Rolfing Basic […] -
Basic Training
Phase III (12) — The Five Principles
Phase III is proving a good opportunity to review what has been learned so far. Among those things are the five principles of Rolfing, taught […] -
Basic Training
Phase III (11) — How the Teaching Proceeds
Four weeks have passed since the Phase III training began. This piece turns to how the classes are actually run. Phase III starts at 8:30 […] -
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Part 4: The Inhaling Body and the Exhaling Body — Breath Seen Through Gravity
Breathing Series, Part 4 of 4 Introduction Three parts of this column have addressed breathing so far. After the exhalation has run its course, a […] -
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Part 3: When Posture Collapses, Breathing Changes — Extensors, Flexors, and the Scalenes
Breathing Series, Part 3 of 4 Introduction Two parts of this column have addressed breathing so far. After the exhalation has run its course, a […] -
Basic Training
Phase III (10) — The Midterm Interview
The Phase III Rolfing training has reached its midpoint. Sessions with my client have run through Session 5. As in Phase II, at the midway […] -
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Part 2: The Diaphragm Reaches the Skull — Breath and the Placement of the Organs
Breathing Series, Part 2 of 4 Introduction The previous part took up how breathing is carried out within the body, in its two forms — […] -
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Part 1: Exhaling Takes No Effort — Conscious and Unconscious Breath
Breathing Series, Part 1 of 4 Introduction That “organizing the breath” matters in the first of Rolfing’s ten sessions has been treated before in this […] -
Basic Training
Phase III (9) — Case Presentation (1): After the Third Session
The first three sessions with my client in the Phase III training — the Sleeve sessions — are finished. On the first day of the […]
