Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Jan 11 minHappy New Year 2020!Did you see the sky today, January 1st, New Year 2020? This morning, I saw unique shapes of clouds in the sky, but, by noon, it changed to pure blue sky. E...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Dec 16, 20191 min...The words of that act define acupuncture as the insertion of needles into the human body -by piercing the skin of the body to regulate and improve the flow and balance of energy in the body. This is the first time in modern times (I don't know ab...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Oct 29, 20191 minThis is pure unadulterated notion, but I think it is the mesodermal systems that give access to -control of the autonomic functions of the body. Much work has been done, mostly in the last two or three years, on the subject of voluntary control over the...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Oct 29, 20191 minDiaphragmatic control as taught in singing, in speaking, in yoga, is exercise. It's good to lean something and then let it go, go back to home position, but this people won't do. As they start to learn anything, it gives them a new sen...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Sep 20, 20191 minThere are schools of chiropractic that work only in the neck.What they are implying is that any imbalance in the lower part of the body will manifest as imbalance up above. That far, they're absolutely right. So they...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Sep 20, 20191 minIt's very important to make the person being Rolfed realize he is the one...... who can do the feeling about what has happened to him. So many people are still asking, what should I feel? I say to them, Well, who the heck knows wha...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Sep 20, 20191 min...we are doing is forming the bridge between psychology and physiology.We too are standing at that point, that very vital point. We need to collect our clinical information together so that we bring the psychologists down from ...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Aug 8, 20191 minOver and over again, people come to me, and they tell me, you just don't know how strong I am. They say "strength" and I want to hear "balance." The strength idea has effort in it; this is not what I am looking for. Strength that has effort in it; th...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Aug 8, 20191 min...Our balance, the horizontals we want to achieve, comes out of the interaction of movement inthree planes: the knees moving forward, the elbows moving sideward, and the head moving upward. Now, all three planes have to be appropriately related befor...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Jul 21, 20191 minThe brain is a hydrostatic system, since materially it consists more of water than of anything else.Consider what happens to the pressures on the various points in that very important organ when the head is consistently carried tilted off center of pulled b...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Jun 11, 20191 minA Rolfer must be able to be comfortable with phenomena which are always shifting, always moving.This is what makes things tough. Those few people who can build a body up are the few who have sensitivity to this sense of security in insecurity. We've r...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Jun 11, 20191 minWe are taught to think of tension as readiness to react in response; that's not true. Old military postures came from the martial arts; they put you in a position in which you are ready to act. In so doing, your whole extrinsic system comes u...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks May 23, 20191 minOld religions used to teach you to sit or kneel and always rock, gently but definitely rock. When you rock, you swing from pre-vertebral to post-vertebral muscle. You'd see the same thing with sailors in the more active days of the war. You'd go dow...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks May 19, 20191 minTo me, strength is balance. Maximum strength exists in terms of muscles that are balanced.The overall problem in that particular man's body was he has so consistently exercised in one way that he had shortened some of his muscles. Those short mus...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Apr 7, 20191 minTo really understand a Rolfer's function in the community,........Evolving and presenting this concept of Rolfing has required compound essence of time. Where can we get some words that will make the concept simpler? M...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Mar 31, 20192 minI bid you to examine your own ways of thinking and looking. ..... Gaston Bachelard formulated his "epistemological profile." He formulated five levels of seeing or of cognition. I have just described to you three of...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Mar 17, 20191 minDon't expect to get manifestations of progress that the material world is not capable of.Structure develops as a result of function, but it's the same basic body with something new added that gives additional function. Rolfing, our something new...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Mar 6, 20191 minWhy do you want to watch the gravitational field in your young life? ....as Rolfers, have picked up is that we can use gravity as a tool. From there, you see, we processed to look at the way gravity affects material substance...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Feb 10, 20191 min....every energy in which we live is nourishment to us......The spirit is in charge to tell the individual that he can so organize his body that he is now in line with a supporting force. He cannot just go on inde...
Dr. Ida Rolf Talks Jan 31, 20191 minThis is my goal: an educational process.Rolfers are integrating something; we are not restoring somethings. This puts us in a different class from all other therapists that I know of. It takes us ...