What’s The Meaning of All The Alphabet Soup After My Name?
Over the years I’ve accumulated a lot of credentials, undoubtedly with more to come. 🙂 A friend suggested I write a humerus blog post to explain each abbreviation, acronym, or initialism. So, in an effort to educate all of you and help you become more informed consumers welcome to… Credentials I Have […]
New San Francisco Rolfing® Office
Or, Are You Ready For Me San Francisco? I am pleased to announce I have a new Rolfing office in San Francisco. On Mondays, beginning May 3, I started working at A Body of Work a highly respected San Francisco Pilates Studio and Gyrotonic® Center. I am beyond thrilled to have the opportunity to bring […]
Rolfing® Structural Integration at San Francisco Green Festival®
Come join me April 10 and 11 at the San Francisco Green Festival. Three of my colleagues and I will be offering Rolfing mini-sessions. Get a structural evaluation, sample what Rolfing feels like, and learn all kinds of cool stuff about your body too. Education is an important part of the Rolfing process. Continue the […]
The Rolf Institute® Membership Conference
2009 Was Divine: Wish You’d Been There? The official theme for the newly renamed 2009 Rolf Institute® Membership Conference was “The Shifting Sands of Rolfing®: Body Maps, Perception, Gravity.” The event was formerly known as the annual meeting, but “membership conference” seems a more fitting name given the emphasis on presentations and the sharing of […]
Sullenberger’s “Highest Duty” To Maintain Ego Capacity in High Intensity Emergency Landing
Just as US Airways Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger III skillfully landed his jet in the Hudson River on January 15th, 2009, there is an art to landing from peak experiences. Everyone on board the jet that day survived, so everyone is OK, right? Well, maybe. Everyone on board the jet that day experienced a high […]
Rolfing Structural Integration is NOT Ralphing, ROFL, or . . .
A guide for all you 21st century internet savvy, Facebooking, Blogging, Twittering Peeps out there Long, long ago in a century far, far away lived a woman named Ida Pauline Rolf. She observed that the structure of the human body affects its optimum function, and set out to do something about it. Receiving her Ph.D. […]
5Rhythms® Movement Practice Helps Me Get My Flow On
I went to a Sweat Your Prayers: Silent Practice last Sunday hosted by The Moving Center School. I had not been to a Sweat Your Prayers in quite some time and the practice got me back in touch with a profound quality of being I have been wanting to write about for many months now. […]
Nylon Magazine and The Minneapolis Star Tribune Feature Rolfing® SI
In the August 2009 issue of Nylon Magazine deputy editor Luke Crisell and beauty director Holly Siegel describe their experience receiving three Rolfing sessions from a Rolfing practitioner in New York City. Apparently Siegel suffers from a lower-back problem and Crisell wanted to go along for the entertainment factor. What they found out was that […]
What do New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee and Rolfing® SI have in common?
I just returned from The 2009 Annual Membership Conference of The Rolf Institute® of Structural Integration. Award-winning science writer for The New York Times, Sandra Blakeslee, presented material from her newest book The Body Has a Mind of Its Own. Her explanation of body maps reveals new explanations for why structural integration works. Blakeslee’s book […]
Green Jobs Pioneer Van Jones Utilized Rolfing® SI in His Search For Personal Healing
In an interview in the April 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine Van Jones speaks about his personal quest for healing. He says he spent his time “meditating, listening to New Age lectures about self-improvement, dancing ecstatically with white people banging on drums.” He delved into shamanism, Buddhist retreats, Rolfing, yoga, Landmark, you name […]