Rolfing® SI Featured on The Today Show with Kathie Lee & Hoda
On October 15, 2010 Jan Sultan, Rolf Institute Faculty member trained by Dr. Ida Rolf herself, and Rey Allen, Certified Advanced Rolfer™ participated in a short segment featuring Rolfing® Structural Integration on The Today Show with Kathie Lee & Hoda. This segment comes on the heels of last week’s New York Times Style Section article […]
Rolfing SI Featured in 10 Page Bodywork Slideshow on iVillage.com
I was recently interviewed by reporter Marissa Capodanno for an article about bodywork modalities she wrote for www.ivillage.com. (Update 4/25/16: It looks like the URL www.ivillage.com now redirects to www.today.com. Therefore the original article seems to have vanished.) The slideshow turned out well with Rolfing SI being featured in its very own slide. However, due to space […]
Freedom from twister cables as I stretch my body and soul
In reconstructing the timeline for this article I discovered I wore the twister cables for 15 to 18 months. I was still wearing the cables when I entered kindergarten in the fall of 1972. (In the photo to the left I’m the blonde beside the teacher).Until that time I had been relatively sheltered at home […]
Starkey Labs Wins 2010 Award for Innovative Work Comp Program That Includes Rolfing® SI
Starkey Laboratories, Inc. of Eden Prairie, Minnesota has earned the 2010 Governor’s Award for Innovative Measures in Workers’ Compensation from the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry and the Worker’s Compensation Advisory Council. Here is a 1997 video clip about Starkey’s program from WCCO TV. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmO6uXyxtcU&feature=related] Starkey Laboratories has 1,760 U.S. employees and is a […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
My Pilates Journey
I have been involved with Pilates more or less since the late 1980s. I was first introduced to Pilates principles while studying dance with Mercy Sidbury at Sonoma State University. My curiosity piqued, I went to the SSU Library and checked out The Pilates Method of Physical and Mental Conditioning by Philip Friedman and Gail […]
How I Became A Certified Rolfer™ Part 4 (Finding My Calling)
The final events that led me to become a Rolfing practitioner. The end of one journey, but the beginning of a whole new world of adventures.
How I Became a Certified Rolfer™ Part 3 (After The Braces Came Off)
Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this 4 part series. In reconstructing the timeline for this article I discovered I wore the twister cables for 15 to 18 months. I was still wearing the cables when I entered kindergarten in the fall of 1972. Until that time I had been relatively sheltered at home […]