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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Ice skating, Rolfing®, Brian Orser, Kim Yu-Na
Helen James, CAR, first Rolfed Brian Orser during his performing career, several years before I met her. When she first worked with Brian, she didn’t have the advanced Rolfing training yet, she did that in the same class I took … Continue reading
The Apostasy of Rolfing®Movement Integration
In the beginning, there existed these things: Ida Rolf and the men who followed her, and a couple of women hanging around. Then some reason, perhaps the search for clients, led men to work with women, and there was divergity. … Continue reading
Posted in bodywork, Find a Rolfer, Guild for Structural Integration, Ida Rolf, Linda L Grace, Rolf Institute, Rolfer™, Rolfing
Tagged Annie Duggan, Emmett Hutchins, Find a Rolfer, good posture, Guild for Structural Integration, Ida Rolf, Jan Sultan, Janie French, Judith Aston, Louis Shultz, Michael Salveson, Rebecca Carli, Rolfer™, Rolfing, Rolfing Structural Integration, structural integration
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Do you have to *believe* in Rolfing® for it to work?
Some folks just can’t help asking this question, maybe because their friend who referred them had that starry-eyed look of the true believer. The answer: Nope. (Notice, no link of choir singing, “Amazing (Linda) Grace” either.) What you have … Continue reading
Rolfing® Sensory Integration, not just for musicians
I’m gonna ‘fess up here and say that I am not the neatest person you ever met! (Those who know me are chuckling.) I especially love to have books and papers around me. I don’t have that stuff in my … Continue reading
Conducting: the firewalk of Memphis
Yes, it is really hot in Memphis TN, hot in a couple of ways. Imagine, if you will, a group of 14 people, enough advanced degrees in music among them to choke a horse, all hopeful of enlightenment and willing … Continue reading
The Unconscious Body/Mind
Watch out! here is a sort of Loch Ness, a deep sea, where the monsters live and can’t be spoken with except by signs and portents, and a growing body of mind works…or is it body works. (Dang, Dualism … Continue reading
The “Magic” of Rolfing®Structural Integration
Whole political schisms have been created in the world of Ida Rolf’s structural integration by some of her students wanting to go more toward a Mystery School, and others of her students wanting to go toward Just Show Me The … Continue reading
Yoga and Rolfing®
Three or four years ago I got an invitation I couldn’t refuse from Joan White, who teaches yoga all over the world in the discipline of B.K.S. Iyengar. She and I taught a weekend event in Philadelphia for her teacher-trainees. … Continue reading
Posted in bodywork, Ida Rolf, Linda L Grace, Rolf Institute, Rolfer™, Rolfing, Yoga
Tagged embodiment, Iyengar, Joan White, Rolfer™, Rolfing, Rolfing explanation, structural integration, yoga
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Way Off Topic: Corn street food in Chicago
So, I was having a nice healthy dinner at the Pumpkin Cafe, right around the corner from my office here in Philadelphia. Pumpkin Cafe is a mecca for locavores and healthy eating. One of the dishes I had was a … Continue reading
Could you Rolf someone who argues for a living?
This morning a client asked about my today’s blog, and I told her that I only had the title so far. She said, “That is me! I have 3 teenagers and arguing is the only way I stay alive!” A … Continue reading
Posted in bodywork, humor, Linda L Grace, Rolfer™, Rolfing, sensory awareness
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