Blog - Dr. Ida Rolf Talks | RolfingSI-Tokyo

Jan 1, 2020
1 min

Happy 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...

...The words of that act define acupuncture as the insertion of needles into the human body -

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Dec 16, 2019
1 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...

This is pure unadulterated notion, but I think it is the mesodermal systems that give access to -

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Oct 29, 2019
1 min

This 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...

Diaphragmatic control as taught in singing, in speaking, in yoga, is exercise.

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Oct 29, 2019
1 min

Diaphragmatic 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...

There are schools of chiropractic that work only in the neck.

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Sep 20, 2019
1 min

There 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...

It's very important to make the person being Rolfed realize he is the one...

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Sep 20, 2019
1 min

It'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,...

...we are doing is forming the bridge between psychology and physiology.

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Sep 20, 2019
1 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...

Over and over again, people come to me, and they tell me, you just don't know how strong I am.

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Aug 8, 2019
1 min

Over 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...

...Our balance, the horizontals we want to achieve, comes out of the interaction of movement in

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Aug 8, 2019
1 min

...Our balance, the horizontals we want to achieve, comes out of the interaction of movement in

three planes: the knees moving forward, the elbows moving sideward, and the head moving upward. Now, all three planes have to be...

The brain is a hydrostatic system, since materially it consists more of water than of anything else.

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Jul 21, 2019
1 min

The 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...

A Rolfer must be able to be comfortable with phenomena which are always shifting, always moving.

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Jun 11, 2019
1 min

A 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...

We are taught to think of tension as readiness to react in response; that's not true.

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Jun 11, 2019
1 min

We 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...

Old religions used to teach you to sit or kneel and always rock, gently but definitely rock.

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

May 23, 2019
1 min

Old 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...

To me, strength is balance. Maximum strength exists in terms of muscles that are balanced.

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

May 19, 2019
1 min

To 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...

To really understand a Rolfer's function in the community,.....

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Apr 7, 2019
1 min

To 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...

I bid you to examine your own ways of thinking and looking.

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Mar 31, 2019
2 min

I 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...

Don't expect to get manifestations of progress that the material world is not capable of.

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Mar 17, 2019
1 min

Don'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. ...

Why do you want to watch the gravitational field in your young life?

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Mar 6, 2019
1 min

Why 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...

....every energy in which we live is nourishment to us...

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Feb 10, 2019
1 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...

This is my goal: an educational process.

Dr. Ida Rolf Talks

Jan 31, 2019
1 min

This 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...

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