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Tonic Function
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 […] -
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Rolf Movement – Part 2 (3) — Confusion in a Good Sense, and on Tonic Function
The Rolf Movement training reached the end of its fifth day. Exactly halfway, and the workshop turned to looking back over what we had learned. […] -
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Rolf Movement – Part 1 (6) — How to Relate the Body’s Movement to Tonic Function?
September 2, 2017. The Rolf Movement training reached its sixth day. Over these three days, centering on sessions four through six, I have been learning […] -
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Rolf Movement – Part 1 (5) — Where to Look in Movement: Phoric Function and Fixed Point
September 1, 2017. The Rolf Movement training reached its fifth day. As on the previous day (see “To Encourage Bodily Awareness: Slowly, Carefully, Into Words”), […] -
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Gael Rosewood Workshop (4) — How Do the Gravity-Related Tonic Muscles Keep the Body in Balance?
When I took part in the basic Rolfing training in Munich, what was hardest of all to understand was the relationship between Rolfing and Tonic […] -
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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 […] -
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Bidirectionality Brings the Body into Order — Tonic Function in Walking and Sitting
When Ida Rolf devised the ten-session series of Rolfing, there was no scientific theory behind it; it was built on her own experience in yoga, osteopathy, the Alexander Technique, and […] -
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The Muscles That Tire and the Muscles That Don’t — Tonic Function and the Support of Posture
This is the second of six pieces in the Body and Mind series. The series was written across the periods of Phase II and Phase […]
