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Source Point Therapy — A Summary of Fourteen Days Across Five Years of Training
I have set down eighteen pieces on Source Point Therapy (SPT) — an account of receiving it, and records of each module. Each of those […] -
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Rolfing Is Studied in University Laboratories──Doctoral Research on Fascia at the Technical University of Munich
Introduction When people encounter the label “Rolfing is pseudoscience,” the question many of them form is a simple one: does that mean no serious researcher […] -
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Fascia Is Adaptable──In Gravity, the Body Is Rewoven
Introduction Across three blog posts, I have looked at fascia from several perspectives. That it is alive and connected. That it senses. That it moves, […] -
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Fascia Is Resilient──Movement Is What Keeps It Flexible
Introduction Twice now I have written about fascia. The first time, that it is alive and connected. The second, that the same tissue senses. Seen […] -
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Fascia Is Sensing──the Other Sense That Feels the Body from Within
Introduction Last time I wrote about how fascia is alive — fascia as a living, flowing continuum that vanishes on a fixed specimen, a tissue […] -
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Session 10: Integration — The Door to the Client’s Independence
The final session takes in the whole body. But what matters most here is not what gets done with the hands. Where Session 10 Sits […] -
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Fascia Is Alive──and Because It Is Alive, It Long Resisted Direct Observation
Introduction Rolfing is often said to work on the fascia. But what, exactly, is this fascia? This tissue tends to be reduced to a single […] -
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Session 9: Continuity — Out to the Hands and Feet
With the two girdles coordinating after session 8, session 9 carries that as far as the ends. The aim is a whole body in which […] -
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Seeing the Whole Body’s Fascia in Three Dimensions — What the FR:EIA Plastinate Made Visible
Introduction For a long time, fascia was anatomy’s supporting player. In order to observe muscles and organs, the connective tissue wrapping them was carefully stripped […] -
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Healing, Correcting, Integrating — Three Paths of Manual Therapy, and the Border of What Science Can Explain
Introduction Massage, seitai, shiatsu, oil treatment, craniosacral work, and Rolfing — practices that touch the body with the hands are strikingly varied. Faced with these, […]