Presentation Layer for the Rolfing Trailer Park: who will notice?

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Linda Grace

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 today. I also have to admit that I also erroneously think of the movie, “Bagdad Cafe” as a trailer park movie, one which could take place here in any neighborhood in Philadelphia, in my beloved concrete desert.

The neighborhood was quiet today at 7:30 a.m. as Tito Perrito and I hit the sidewalk outside of our Philadelphia rowhouse.  I was concerned with allowing my feet to feel soft in my minimalist shoes, and doing a little run and walk, interrupted by a few sniffings of various lamp poles and found objects. By the time we got to the coffee shop a few blocks away, me clutching my weekend NY Times and Tito ready to have a little rest, I woke to the fact that someone(s) were going to see what I had on, the clothing ornamental presentation layer was going to be on display.

I wasn’t all that concerned that I was going to show up without posture/structure, because I had been paying attention to getting spring in my step, alert, with tonic postural systems activated.

However, I quickly glanced around the coffee shop to see if anyone would notice that I had my fake fur hat on wrong side out. The hat does show that I wear it like that, some wrong-side threads stick out, but I keep forgetting to trim them, and the hat is just too small right side up. I was carrying my ceramic World of Warcraft design cup, and had 2 layers of scarves on along with an old denim jacket, some black slacks that had the pocket only a little ripped, and some Argentinian leather gloves still good after 15 years of almost constant wear. Tito had been brushed, my quick check of the various told me the baristas I liked were there and that others were seemingly unconcerned since my age makes me invisible:  we would probably not get thrown out of the coffee shop, or kindly told that we could bring in our shopping cart. (Just kidding, folks.)

Back in the NY Times, reading along about the exhibition of Cindy Sherman’s personal presentation photographic works at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, I was struck by her “None of the characters are me” (speaking of her hundreds of constructed personas) ….”they are everything but me. If it seems too close to me, it’s rejected.”

What is happening here? Shall we say, Liar Liar Pants on Fire? Out of all the hundreds of photos of herself, there must be some truth somewhere…and yes, we see another self portrait at the top of the page, a trailer park girl, a little sluttish in her t-shirt, ready to jump on her motorcycle but impeded seriously by two-fisted blackness and a calculating look at the neighbors. Perhaps she will get the stuffing beat out of her soon, with only camera clicks for defense.

At least she doesn’t have on pointy toed shoes, these look like very biker chic, no bunions for her.

Presentation layer thoughts humming, I thought about Chris Amodeo, a fabulous Rolfer who lives in Southern California. Here is his new video:  http://rolfmeamodeo.com/  Is his head cold?

Here is Granny as Rolfer, one of my videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOdgpCnuHI   In one of my upcoming videos, I will wear the wrongside out hat.

If you buzz through other Rolfing sites you will see some people who are having fun with their presentation layers.  It is kind of a mark of honor for me that I once lost some clients because they didn’t like my Crown Vic Ford with the intimidator fender.  I plan to do better though, I just cut the loose threads off the hat.

 

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Rolfing® definition in 72 words (The official definition)

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Linda Grace
  • 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 the environment. Rolfing accomplishes this by addressing imbalances in the body’s connective tissue matrix, as well as by helping the client find more functional options regarding patterns of movement, perception and cognition.
This definition was crafted by a group of Rolfers™ last year as part of a new Rolf Institute of Structural Integration (RISI) Standards of Practice document, which was voted to be accepted by a majority of members of RISI. I like it: for 72 words, it is about as good as it gets. The above is tough for some to take, though. One old-timer connected with a prestigious institution of higher learning whined that most of the words mean nothing to his real world, which happens to be scientific.
There is a lot to Rolfing SI, and a lot of the words we use are unfamiliar to those outside of the field, although becoming better known. This happens in other fields, too. At the time I was learning the vocabulary of Rolfing, in 1982-1984, there was also a lot for me to learn about computers.
In my free time, I caught up on some of the new words of computerdom, and hardly “understood” them at all. Take that stuff about “bits” and “bytes”. Please, I said, just speak English. Finally I found someone who said, “A bit is a bit is a bit. A byte is a byte is a byte. Don’t try to translate bits and bytes into something else, not into words you think you like better.”
This made sense to me. When I came to “operating systems”, I got it, and just tried to imagine what OS was, rather than translate the “systems” badly to something I sort of understood.
I realized, the bits and bytes and operating systems are outside of proofings, they just are in the world, and have that name attached to them.
Structural Integration has some names attached to it, also. When Ida Pauline Rolf made the big leap to what she called integration, she just saw it in the world of the body as a possibility, and went for it, began to create that possibility in the “random” bodies of human beings who showed up for her.
These Randoms hardly knew what it was that she was doing, as most folks who come in for Rolfing hardly can know that organization which we call integration in gravity.  As far as IPR thought though, I believe that as individuals with all kinds of problems of integration began to show up, she always took the integrative idea as far as she could with that particular human being.
Every time that place was a little different, but still….there is an operating system of structure and movement in the body.
I loved what one of my fellow Rolfers recently said in part about the limitations of the above definition: when the person stands up toward the end and gets that goofy look of happiness and you ask them if they could have predicted this outcome, and they say, “No!” how can we explain that outcome to someone who has not had that experience?  
The answer, we can’t. And that outcome often happens, when you get a real Rolfer and a real person who both show up and go for integration in gravity.
 

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Fitness in the New Year: 7 ways to Save Yourself from Yourself and Your Yoga Teacher

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Linda Grace

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 body which were thought at the time to be out of conscious control.

He couldn’t get his heart going again.  After a doctor who happened to be in the audience for the seminar came up on stage and started his heart for him, the yogi apologized for “showing off”.

Way Number One: No showing off.  This is known as EGO in yoga circles and exists at all levels, both teacher and student. Comparing ourselves to the person on the mat next to us? Yikes.  And— teacher pushing people further into poses is simply ego.

Way Number Two: Over 40 years of age?: No inverted postures. The big reason for this is the long lasting neck, shoulder, and arm pain issues created easily by this. Less usual reasons for this including going blind with possible retinal detachment from increased pressure in the head and stroke, thoracic outlet syndrome, and the list goes on.  These inverted postures are not worth the risk.

Way Number Three: Know where the first barrier to the movement is.  Do not go immediately beyond it.  Find it and wait. It will ease, go to the next barrier. Do not do this more than 3 times, this going to the next barrier. The other side will probably have different first end points or barriers to the stretch. This will drive your yoga teacher crazy. However, it will ultimately give you greater stretch gains.

Way Number Four: Everyone has a little “shelf” in the neck where one vertebra goes forward of the one below it. Do not bend the neck into extension such as in the “cobra” that creates more of that sharp break. Use axial extension with a gentle arching into extension. (best known as the “skyhook”, axial extension is done by elevating the head without tucking or jutting out the chin)

Way Number Five: Don’t do “hot” yoga. The ligamentous stretches that are possible in heat can be extremely damaging to the ligaments.  They are what hold you together, in large part, and will allow you to have skeletal misalignments when they are too lax afterward. As always, the injury may not show up for several days, then giving sharp pain and limitation.

Way Number Six: Learn to do extensions with length in the spine. (axial extension all the way down to the tailbone.) Whatever part of the spine extends the least, and usually that is the thoracic spine, do not go further into extension than that will go.  You can crush fracture your thoracics if you force them into further extension.

Way Number Seven: Do not do yoga with bound strength—tense tight muscles.  You can pull yourself apart easily. Think of strength with flow.  For instance, make sure you are not binding at the diaphragm front OR back.  For instance, it is easy to breath only allowing one part of the diaphragm to have flow. This sets you up to pull apart your lower back.

When yogistas have a series with me, we work on their poses to refine them so that they are not injurious.

At the bottom of this page is a recent somewhat flamboyantly warning article about yoga practice. There are some mistakes in it, but overall it works for me and the experiences I have had trying to repair damage for yoga practitioners and teachers.

This is NOT to say, Don’t Do Yoga!  It remains a truly important way to get in touch with your body and bring it and your mind together in a practice which is repeatable and has longevity functional returns that are big for your middle and old age.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/how-yoga-can-wreck-your-body.html?ref=health

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Fitness in the New Year: The Transformers

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Linda Grace

This clip from the Messiah is one of the most inspirational pieces of music that I know.  (I’m not talking about the possibility of being resurrected!  I leave that to your own personal beliefs.) I am talking about the inspiration for change.

Some people just have a mysterious transforming ability, both for themselves and for others.  Like the lyrics of the Handel tune, cribbed from First Corinthians, it is a mystery.  Like art, we know it when we see it.  We can internalize it, some of us, and we can externalize it, seek out people who can get us going, especially stimulating our own transformative ability.

“Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.”

In this New Year, I’m suggesting that most of us know something about our own unique transforming potential, and know where to go to seek out inspiration.

At this time I am re-reading Harold Bloom’s Where Shall Wisdom Be Found and another very wise book in a different way, Laurence E. Morehouse and Leonard Gross’s Maximum Performance.

… and Emma Lazarus, quoted in the New York Times this morning: Take off your shoes as by the burning bush…

This our mission, should we choose to accept it: May the trumpet sound for all of us to feel more alive and in the presence of the burning bush of transformation.

 

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Fitness in the New Year: what is best?

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Linda Grace

When John B. (Jack) Kelly, Jr. died early at age 57 in Philadelphia in March 1985, his body lay in the Philadelphia morgue unidentified for 2 days. Here’s how that happened.

A member of a classy bricklaying family that included his sister Grace Kelly (yes, Princess Grace) and a father, John B. Kelly, who won 3 gold medals in Olympic rowing, Jack Kelly, Jr. was a star athlete himself who had been on 4 Olympic rowing teams and medaled all over the world.

On the day that Jack Jr. died, as reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer, he had been running many sprint rowing races with his son Jack III, and losing every time. He remarked at “being tired” and wanting to get more fit. At 57, Jack Jr. was still in great shape.  His pedigree as a rower was much stronger than his son’s, and perhaps this drove Jack Jr. to challenge his son over and over as he was losing over and over.

Finally Jack III just said, “No more”. So, seeking more fitness, wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and no identification, Jack Jr. ran a couple of miles back toward the Palace Hotel where he was living at the time.  He dropped dead with a massive heart attack on a corner a few blocks from the hotel, unidentified and unrecognized in the street.

Most of us aren’t that driven, or that accomplished.  Thinking that we need more exercise is something that all of us are prone to, however, and maybe that thought just isn’t true. Maybe we are exercising just the right amount.

Fitness isn’t even the first thing on the table for health.  Over and over studies have shown that #1 is quitting smoking, #2 is flossing your teeth, and #3 is salt/potassium balance with much less salt than is currently in most of our diets.  All of these preventions have proven out in longevity with health.

#4 Fitness:  Are you injured? Elsewhere in these blogs I have written about starting back to exercising after injury or layoff, and I stand by the idea of walking out 10 minutes and walking back 10 minutes, and continuing at a graduated rate.  Have a checkup and clear doing moderate exercise with your doctor. Even if you pass without having to do some remedial work, consider whether you want to be in rehabilitation or hospital environment to do the exercise. Especially if you have lung or heart problems, these environments can be a lifesaver.

So, you are not broken down, what to do?  Probably the least effective thing you can do is to go out and join a health club.  My friends in the industry tell me that only about 3% of folks who sign up for monthly payments with their credit card automatic withdrawal actually go after the first trip or two, though the automatic withdrawals go on and on.

Find something that you like doing that doesn’t hurt you and keep doing it regularly. Why not get a personal trainer? Or sign up for a specific class.  Many of the younger fitter clients are going for Crossfit.  Crossfit is cool if you are at that level, and if you are not, it is torture and injury.  If that sort of thing is your goal, then get with a personal trainer who can get you up to speed for the classes.  Even one class of some of those activities can injure you so that your next fitness class will be getting Rolfing® Structural Integration and restoration of movement.

Personally, I am paying attention to #1 (last time I quit was 1983, and I intend to stay that way), and #2, #3, and #4, plus having an advanced Rolfing series this year.

In closing, this article by Jane Brody in the NYTimes is a real wake-up call for those of you who love salt, which she says is the cheapest way to enhance flavor and texture and preserve food.    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/health/high-sodium-to-potassium-ratio-in-diet-is-a-major-heart-risk.html?_r=1&ref=health

 

 

 

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Reading Scientific American, This Gamer Rejoices

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Linda Grace

Research in games has gone far afield from the “corruption of young minds” and “dangerously addictive” talking points for the recent past.  Cognitive load, executive functions, and several types of memory must be engaged.  Motor skills! Attentional systems! These are being studied.

As a dedicated gamer, I am studying these things myself. (Well, not in a scientific way, haha) Only last night, 8 p.m. came around and after talking on Skype with my relative visiting in Brazil, I was off to check out the new content on World of Warcraft.  This was a little earlier than usual; I was very excited to go with my “toon” Killertomato to see, dispatch the new Dragon and maybe win some new gear in a random raid of 35 folks which contained not only folks from my Guild but from all over the RL world as well.  (RL=real life).

The ones from my Guild were hooked together on “Vent”, which enabled us to voice talk about the game and help each other out, critical for those of us there for the first time. We were also communicating in “chat”, a continuous typed scrolling dialogue at the left corner of the screen for the whole group.

Also, a running account of the damage and healing that each of us was doing was running at the lower right, which had to be attended to, at least by me.  I tend to not pull my weight in a group sometime, just being in the beautiful environment, and that reminds me that i am on task.

One’s health and life force and position (am I close enough to the healers, within shooting and dotting range, and out of reach of the ice shards?) must be monitored at all times or risk being taken out of the game by death, costing maybe a 100 gold to repair.

I totally agree with this quote from Scientific American: “In short, the game is a relentless exercise in multitasking and constant decision making”.   The big question for further study: can there be transfer of these skills to RL?

This could be important.  Besides me, according to the Entertainment Software Association, 72 percent of American households play computer or video games.  Many adults including a number of women play these games, but youngsters,teenagers from South Korea, ruled the roost at a recent competition in Providence, Rhode Island.

This winning by teenagers has a number of factors probably, but a chief winning strategy may be the lack of the dreaded RL distraction called “spouse aggro”.  (Aggo=Aggravation) In spouse aggro, the RL spouse trumps all play and actually takes the player out of the game with incessant demands for coming to dinner, paying attention to said spouse, demanding busy work to keep player from the game, and the like.

Here the link to the long and meaty article:

 http://links.email.scientificamerican.com/ctt?kn=81&ms=Mzc3MjExNDYS1&r=NTM5ODIzNjAxNQS2&b=2&j=MTIyMTkzODI3S0&mt=1&rt=0

You will notice almost perfect form and function in the Korean winner short video. His elbows are hanging down, he is using appropriate tonus, and if we could get him to sit up a bit he would be all golden. Probably that folding chair is not the best.

 

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40th Anniversary: one story of the founding of Rolf Institute of Structural Integration

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Linda Grace

After a full year of investigation, I finally heard something about the legalities of the founding of the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration (RISI) in a bar in Boulder CO.

Over this past year I have asked everyone I know who could have been there what actually happened. Why did Ida Rolf decide to make a legal foundation as a repository for her work? How did that founding happen, actually? Why did the founding take the non-profit form?

Questions were out there: Ida Rolf started working way before 1972. Did she decide to do the founding because she knew she had cancer? Because she wanted to leave something of an inheritance to her children? She wanted to solidify the organization?

So, back to the Boulderado Hotel bar, October. I’m sitting in the bar with Joy Belluzzi, a Chevy Chase Rolfer™ who is married to one of Ida Rolf’s sons, Alan Demmerle, who is also at the table.  After a bit, their son Justin shows up, a recent graduate of the University of Chicago in philosophy, who knows really good brainy jokes.

Also around this small table: Dean Rollings, an old time Rolfer, whom I knew only slightly from afar, partly through a visit to his restaurant in Key West. He once helped lead a secession of the Florida Keys from the United States, in the ’90′s.

What I didn’t know was that Dean was busy in the early ’70′s as the Vice President of the proto-RISI. Ida Rolf was trying to get some continuity going for her demise, which looked seriously near, and had appointed Dean as V.P. of the proto-RISI and Joseph Heller as the President of the proto-RISI.

Alan, as I had ascertained before, knew nothing of the founding. He had been busy at his job in middle management at the National Institutes for Health. Joy knew nothing, even though she was Ida Rolf’s secretary at the end of Dr. Rolf’s life.

Dean was filling us in, from his viewpoint. We had all just been to a presentation where several other old-timers were on the dais and told mostly Ida stories, nothing about the legalities of the organization of RISI. This might have been a little aggravating to Dean, that nothing was said about this part of the anniversary. Maybe this sparked the stories, or maybe it was the Scotch.

Dean is probably about my age, 73, a huge difference between being that while I was spending time in the Mid-West playing oboe etc., he was at Esalen and knew all that personal growth stuff, got trained as a Rolfer™ and was one of Ida’s major go-to guys for Rolfing celebrities. He is smart, too, and noticed right away when Joseph Heller got a big fish supporter to offer Ida Rolf a million dollars for the rights to the work.

Right away, he knew that offer would take structural integration work down a whole other garden path, one of big money and big advertising and loss of control of the Ida-anointed teachers of the work, because any one would be able to teach in that scenario.  (Joseph Heller and Dean Rollings were not chosen by Ida Rolf to teach, whatever her reasons were.)

The million dollars was a lot of money in 1971.

Dean set to work and got the disparate players, Ida Rolf, the faculty members, Richard Stenstadvold, then the executive director of the school, and other players to agree to have the legal founding of RISI as a non-profit in the jurisdiction of San Francisco.

I think Dean was motivated by the loss of structural integration as a discipline, the possibility of the diaspora spreading out too quickly. He certainly doesn’t seem to be currently (or in the past) motivated by money or even wanting to teach, that necessary but oh-so-political choosing and being chosen which infests thoughts at RISI.

It is easy to see why the faculty supported the project of the non-profit founding; their self-interest was all there.

Dean and others were also interested in checks and balances, and made sure that a democratic governance was set up, with a Board of Directors elected from the membership. (Nowadays, there can be two outside Board Directors).

Dean was also interested in countering the offer from Joseph Heller. He managed to get folks together on having RISI make a payment of $20,000 a year for 20 years to Ida Rolf’s 2 grown children. This 20 years is long since up, paid and done. I remember during the ’80′s when Alan deferred receiving the payment through some bad times at RISI but we of RISI have long since honored the full of the agreement.

So, the trademarks including Rolfer™ and Rolfing®Structural Integration were established, to become a bone of contention to every other school who believes they should be able to use them.  The legal defense fund at RISI is alive and well, and spent into the 6 figures last year on the bad dogs.

Because of the haste of the last minute items of the founding, the “little boy logo”, which I have written about in these blogs, was not cleaned up by the artist, John Lodge, whom I personally heard bemoan not cleaning up the overnight drawing showing the rotations in a small boy’s structure before our use of it as a trademark.  The digital world has made that drawing even more needing clean-up, but it will need some lawyers and some filings.

Perhaps, that will happen in this year, young Rolfers™ are howling for it.

 

 

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Thanks Week: a testimonial

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Linda Grace

No name will be here on this testimonial.

This testimonial arrived about 6 months after the person’s standard basic 10 series was completed. I hadn’t seen hide nor hair of this person since the basic 10, until this card arrived from out of the blue, snail mail, no less.

“Dear Linda,
Do your ears burn around 2 pm every day? When I jump in the pool and fiercely kick those legs which for years
did the dead man’s float, I say, “Thank God for Linda Grace.”
My body feels much more like a unit—one I don’t half mind carting around.
Hope you are thriving.
Wishing you a warm holiday with many blessings,
_______”

I happen to have talent for doing this work and am very grateful to be living in a time in which this work exists.

Just think, to be born as Mickey Mantle in 1832 where the social construct didn’t exist for baseball.
What if Bill Gates had been born 10 years earlier and the 13 year old Bill didn’t have that school computer to program?
(Alrighty, enough already with comparing myself to celebrities.)

Of course, the reverse can happen as in today’s world, where the social construct has moved past many old movies that just don’t have the people that have the listening any more for them. Is the same thing happening to symphonic music?

There is a listening in the world now for Rolfing SI. Outliers are tuning into their bodies and learning
how to be structurally integrated. 1800 Rolfers are out there to meet them, many of them past the 10,000 hour goal for mastery of their subject. It is an optimum time for receiving the work and tuning into the body.

You just about have to be an outlier to show up for this work. You have to be able to get past the old
pain stories and the idea that you are just getting older and nothing can be done.

Fortunately, I like outliers. That person that sent me a snail mail card is a definite outlier, and one I truly appreciate.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my subscribers. I truly appreciate you, too.

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New Dance book tells all: Peterson’s “Dance Medicine”

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Linda Grace

It is a little of a mystery why dancers even do this art. There is physical struggle for hours upon hours through years to master the art. There are injuries and health and psychological problems common to the field. There is constant criticism, favoritism, and politics.

Then, after all this, a very short career with not much pay.

So why? It seems the pain and pay PALE to the glorious sight and feel of the dance for both audience and dancer.

Reading this book at first I had some trouble to tell to whom it was addressed.  I considered giving it to a certain 13 year old that I know, and asking if she could read it; then I realized that she could, because of the way it is written.

The information that is given is very sophisticated and yet plain in a  medical vocabulary way, and told in a way which can be understood by anyone willing to stick with it and follow the presentation. Terms are defined, and one goes from the general to the particular.

Peterson pulls no punches, can’t tell all in this brief meaty book, but gets the information out there in an available form that this is a whole body consideration. When she asks the rhetorical question which rings so well that we know that she heard that a few times, she tells the story with details, succinctly and from start to finish including pictures.

I have never seen a better explanation of the way the rib cage works with the spine.  As a Rolfer™ I would like to see that fleshed out with more about how the whole body goes with it, but one of us will have to write that book, the one that includes the structural and movement integration building on this book.

In short, this is the book that defines anatomy and kinesiology and physiology and psychology of the dance all together in about 150 pages.  There is so much to learn in here for a parent or teacher in such a short time that the book can be savored over and over again. http://www.amazon.com/mn/search/?ref_=nb_sb_noss&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=dance%20medicine%20head%20to%20toe%20a%20dancer%27s%20guide%20to%20health%20paperback&x=0&y=0&rd=1

This could be a good primer for those who are not that interested in dance since the details and pictures are so well done, and the advice on performance issues goes right into daily life.  (How many are having knee problems and not even dancing!  This will explain.)

However, it is a dance book.  Judith Peterson M.D. has devoted much of her professional life to the care of dancers, and every page drips with her erudition, compassion, and love of the art.

Here, the trailer from the movie written by Lisa Niemi and performed by her and her husband Patrick Swayze, One Last Dance.  See if you can tell which knee Patrick Swayze trashed out when he was with the Joffrey Ballet.  (He hides it pretty well!)  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157191/

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Rolfing® Structural Integration definition in 32 words

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Linda Grace

Rolfing Structural Integration: a method of body knolling to the core. Plus function.  No knolled desk, even one of Tom Sach’s, has ever been into walking with a cross-crawl motion —– that I know of, heh heh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-CTkbHnpNQ&feature=BFa&list=SPC39A0360F5799668&index=9/

 

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