March 27th is my last day at 725 Farmers Lane, and that is NO April Fools joke. Schedule a session now for April! It has been an amazing 10 years at our Farmers Lane office. Renee and I are ready … [Read more...]
Mar
Nov
My soul death is averted by Rolfing® Structural Integration
Here is the final installment of the 3 part series about how I became a Certified Rolfer.™ In Part 3 I discover my love for dance, receive my first taste of hands-on manual therapy for a dance injury, … [Read more...]
Jul
Is Rolfing Structural Integration the Same as Deep Tissue Massage and Myofascial Release?
There seems to be a lot of confusion in the public's awareness of the difference between Rolfing Structural Integration and deep tissue massage therapy. Instead of writing one more article explaining … [Read more...]
Dec
San Francisco Bay Area Media Cover Rolfing® Structural Integration
It's been a fantastic three days for news coverage of Rolfing SI in the San Francisco Bay Area. First, on December 4, the San Jose Mercury News re-published the October 7, 2010, New York Times Style … [Read more...]
Jun
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 … [Read more...]
Oct
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 … [Read more...]
Aug
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 … [Read more...]
Apr
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 … [Read more...]
Mar
Bodywork as Meditation Part 4 of 4
Final installment of the article by my friend Raymond Bishop, Certified Advanced Rolfer. Another dimension of this subtle and global sensing is a phenomenon called entrainment.¹? Entrainment is the … [Read more...]
Mar
Bodywork as Meditation Part 3 of 4
Continuation of the article by my friend Raymond Bishop, Certified Advanced Rolfer. The ideas of Tolle have a strong resonance with a much earlier esoteric philosopher, George Ivanovich Gurdjieff who … [Read more...]