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Tonic Function
What Does Tonic Function See? Four Aspects, and What They Look Like
Where Tonic Function Came From — Part 3 of 3 Introduction You think you’re talking about posture, and somewhere along the way it has become […] -
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What Is Tonic Function? The Body’s Ability to Organize Itself in Gravity
Where Tonic Function Came From — Part 2 of 3 Introduction When we are standing, it looks as though we are doing nothing. Inside the […] -
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We Don’t See the Same Thing — Why Work with Perception?
Introduction Two people hear the same words and take away different things. If words only carried information, that wouldn’t happen. The person receiving them interprets […] -
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What Hubert Godard Saw: Tonic Function Was Born in the Dance Studio
Where Tonic Function Came From — Part 1 of 3 Introduction Change your posture and your mood changes. Let your mood shift and your posture […] -
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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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Mind, Body, and Knowledge — What Made the Rolfing Basic Training Interesting as an Education
Reading Eleven Years of Articles In preparation for a major revision of this Rolfing website, scheduled to go live at the end of August 2026, […] -
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Why Good Posture Is Not a Matter of Muscle Strength — Tonic Function and Its Relationship to Gravity
The Science of Posture and Movement Series — Examining the Relationship Between Gravity and the Body | Part 5 Introduction “I keep up with both […] -
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Why Does Ujjayi Breathing Reach “the Depths of the Body” — the Dynamics of Structure Seen from Tonic Function and Breathing Methods
Yoga × Rolfing Five-Part Series | Part 2 | First draft: May 2025. Updated 2026. Introduction “The harder I try to deepen the breath, the […] -
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Rolf Movement – Part 2 (8) — Pre-movement, Yoga, and the Alexander Technique
February 4, 2018. Part 2 of the Rolf Movement training is finished. What remains before certification as a Rolf Movement Practitioner is the nine days […] -
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Rolf Movement – Part 2 (7) — Organizing the Balance of the Three Information-Gathering Systems
Monday, February 5, 2018. I arrived at Haneda. Two weeks is a long stretch, and it is a relief to be back in Tokyo. Ten […]
