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Pars Intima as Gift and Treasure: An Interview with Gil Hedley

Published:
May 2023

Lina Amy Hack interviews anatomist Gil Hedley, PhD, about the pelvic floor. Hedley proposes a new and inclusive term for the intimate structures of the pelvic floor – the pars intima.

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Instructor Dialogue: Thoughts About the Ten Series

Published:
May 2023

Larry Koliha and Bethany Ward, Rolfing Structural Integration (SI) instructors and also a couple, share thoughts about the Ten Series, both in teaching and in practice.

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Pelvic Relationships and the 'Ten Series'

Published:
April 2023

Rolfing Structural Integration instructor Lu Mueller-Kaul interviews colleague, Advanced Rolfing Instructor Tessy Brungardt, about how Rolfers® think about the pelvis throughout the 'Ten Series'.

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Containers and Contents – In General and in Relation to Scoliosis: An Interview with Peter Schwind

Published:
April 2023

In this interview, conducted in September 2018 when he was in the U.S. to present at the Rolf Institute® Membership Conference, Peter Schwind discusses his ongoing work with harmonizing the cavities of the body and their contents.

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Embody, Disembody, Re-embody, Body: Working with Scoliosis and Embodiement

Published:
March 2023

The author broadly reviews the domain of scoliosis, from etymology to diagnosis to psychobiological issues and conventional corrective measures.

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Opening Up to be Included: Structural Integration in Switzerland

Published:
March 2023

IDA president, Theres Maibach, describes the history of IDA and how the Swiss SI professionals came together to be recognized by the government as a profession within the complementary therapy category.

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Tonic Function Model: The Human Gravity Response System

Published:
February 2023

The tonic function model is an inquiry into how human beings orient themselves and organize their movement within the earth’s gravitational field.

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Down the Rabbit Hole: an Interview with Robert Schleip

Published:
February 2023

This interview took place late Sunday afternoon in Washington DC on September 20, 2015 at end of the third day of the Fourth International Fascia Research Congress (FRC).

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Rolfing® SI in Europe: Creating Opportunities in Turbulent Times

Published:
February 2023

How ERA is supporting its members and the new format in which the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute® Europe is teaching Rolfing® Structural Integration and Rolf Movement Integration.

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Internal-External Is a Perception of the Nature of Structure: A Post-Rolf Point of View

Published:
July 2022

Internal-external is a perception of the nature of human structure and how people adapt their inherited form (genotype) to the demands of their lives (phenotype).

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Fascia Insights: The Third Rhythm in the Cranium

Published:
March 2022

Rasmussen and Hack discuss the significance of this first independent measurement of what could be the craniosacral rhythm, how it compares to the previous palpation studies of the craniosacral rhythm.

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The Flow of Lifelong Inquiry: An Interview with Russell Maliphant

Published:
November 2021

During my years of practice as a Rolfer®, I have come to think of scoliosis as a way of growing. There are trees that grow straight toward the sky and others that twist and torque: bamboo and olive trees. Both are beautiful.

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About Integration

Published:
November 2021

A huge question for us Rolfers is “what is integration?” I was assisting a Basic Rolfing Training and the instructor asked if someone would define what integration was.

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The Brain – New Perspectives for Manual Work: An Interview with Peter Schwind

Published:
March 2021

In this article, faculty members of the Dr.Ida Rolf Institute® Christoph Sommer and Dr. Peter Schwind discuss their investigations of palpating and treating the brain.

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Dancing with the Breath in Rolfing® SI Pre-movement, Orientation, and the Cycle of the Breath

Published:
December 2020

We find our breath at the center of movement where conscious and unconscious meet and in the place where function creates structure

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The Complexity and Reasoning of Keeping 3D Hands and Fingers

Published:
March 2020

Berg invites us to consider the psychobiological elements involved with our hands and arms and how SI’s fascial work supports clients to truly spread their wings.

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