20
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...]

18
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...]

03
Aug

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 … [Read more...]

05
Jul

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 … [Read more...]

07
Apr

Pilates, Structural Integration and Resource Oriented Skill Training

February and March have been incredibly busy for me as well as incredibly productive. The first full weekend in February I started the ITT Pilates Mat Training. I've previously written about my … [Read more...]

05
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...]

12
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...]

08
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...]

01
Mar

Bodywork as Meditation Part 2 of 4

Continuation of the article written by my friend Raymond Bishop, Certified Advanced Rolfer. If we focus too much on muscular structures, we miss the larger fascial planes that morph and alter the … [Read more...]

25
Feb

Bodywork as Meditation Part 1 of 4

The following is the text of an article written by my dear friend Raymond J. Bishop. Ray did his basic Rolfing® training and his Rolf™ Movement training at the Rolf Institute for Structural … [Read more...]