Author Archives: Linda Grace
Rolfing®Structural Integration: the Big Picture
It is not that often that I find myself hanging out with folks who have a real Picasso drawing hanging in their bathroom, but I can do it. What first impressed me about these folks and their guests was that … Continue reading
Advanced Rolfing®Structural Integration
Let’s get this straight: every move a Rolfer™ makes advances a certain idea of structure. This idea is learned bit by bit, and with persistence, emerges as an integrative body/mind operating procedure that can be followed with individuals who present … Continue reading
Conductor chokes Philadelphia Orchestra, evades prosecution…until now
Just the facts, ma’am. Last night. Philadelphia Orchestra. Tschaikovsky 4th Symphony. The conductor: Jaap van Zweden. Van Zweden is here for his 3rd subscription series that I have heard, and the time has not been kind to him. On his … Continue reading
Be the person on whom nothing is lost: adventures in sacro-iliac land
I was busy doing my Bugs Bunny imitation at the Buckstaff Bathhouse at the Hot Springs Arkansas National Park. Perhaps you, too, are old enough to remember the advertisement from the ’50′s in which a woman opened a refrigerator and … Continue reading
Breathing: Some Contraindications
I’m not talking about creating zombies here, dear Readers, I’m talking about some popular ways that have been taught, some for centuries, that just do you no good. You can match up your favorite dogmas with the next paragraph and … Continue reading
News from the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation Musician’s Summit
The recitatives of alternative/complementary medical practices– including Rolfing® Structural Integration– that did not cure dystonia victims went on and on. It was the second day, and in the afternoon 8 musicians described their experiences with diagnoses and treatment of their dystonia … Continue reading
FDA: Statin Drugs Carry a Risk of Side Effects
Today, the headline writer for the Science Times, which comes out in the New York Times on Tuesdays, used the “weasel word” MAY on the headline. A Heart Helper May Come at a Price for the Brain by Tara Parker-Pope … Continue reading
Presentation Layer for the Rolfing Trailer Park: who will notice?
I have to admit that I have a certain fondness for trailer park movies. They are much more numinous in the mysterious, fascinating personal flaunting of presentation of self sense than the New York Times fashion pages, which came out … Continue reading
Rolfing® definition in 72 words (The official definition)
Rolfing® Structural Integration is the theory and practice of organizing the human being in the field of gravity. Its goal is to enhance the person’s structural integrity, which is manifest in the person’s ability to function economically in relation to … Continue reading
Fitness in the New Year: 7 ways to Save Yourself from Yourself and Your Yoga Teacher
The first time I ever saw a real yogi from India was in Columbia, Missouri, 1962, and he stopped his heart on the seminar stage. He did that himself, as a demonstration of that ability to control functions of the … Continue reading