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STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION: the JOURNAL of - - 2 the ROLF INSTITUTE ® from the EDITOR in CHIEF March 2018 COLUMNS Vol tructural ntegration S ® I THE JOURNAL OF THE ROLF INSTITUTE MARCH 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION: THE JOURNAL OF - - 2 THE ROLF INSTITUTE ® FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF March 2018 COLUMNS Vol. 46, No. 1 Ask the Faculty: About Feet 3 Rolf Movement® Faculty Perspective: The Feet – Learning and Landing 7 PUBLISHER Rebecca Carli-Mills The Rolf Institute of Structural Integration CONSIDERNG THE FEET 5055 Chaparral Ct., Ste. 103 Boulder, CO 80301 USA Sentient Foundations 9 Mary Bond (303) 449-5903 (303) 449-5978 Fax Freewheelin’ with Jan Sultan: The Feet and More 12 Michael Boblett and Jan Sultan EDITORIAL BOARD Maps of the Feet: A Window into Subjective Experience, 16 Anne F. Hoff, Editor-in-Chief a Tool for Therapeutic Evaluation Shonnie Carson, Lineage Editor Beatriz Pacheco Szaja Gottlieb, Research/Science Editor The Three-Dimensional Foot, Part 3: Opening the Generous Sole 19 Linda Loggins, Movement Editor Michael Boblett Heidi Massa, Latin America Editor The Psychobiology of the Feet 23 Keren’Or Pézard, Arts Editor Anne Hoff John Schewe, Faculty Liason Feet from Another Perspective: An Interview with Naturopathic Doctor 29 Matt Walker, Asia/Pacific Editor and Regenerative Orthopedic Specialist Samuel Oltman Naomi Wynter-Vincent, Europe Editor Michael Boblett and Samuel Oltman Diana Cary Lynn Cohen Minimalism: Put Your Shoes to the Test 32 Craig Ellis Karin Edwards Wagner Lina Hack The Three-Dimensional Animal, Part 2: Archicebus Achilles, 35 Dorothy Miller Metatarsals, and the Generous Sole Meg Maurer Michael Boblett Deanna Melnychuk Max Leyf Treinen PERSPECTIVES An Abundance of Riches 38 LAYOUT AND Michael Salveson GRAPHIC DESIGN Navigating Between Technical Refinement and the Vast Dimensions 39 Susan Winter of the Soul: An Interview with Peter Schwind Allan Kaplan and Peter Schwind Articles in Structural Integration: The Working with Ma: Further Refinement of the Yielding Approach 44 ® Journal of The Rolf Institute represent the through Time, Space, and Intersubjectivity views and opinions of the authors and Hiroyoshi Tahata do not necessarily represent the official Fascia Without Gravity: An Interview with David Lesondak, 51 positions or teachings of the Rolf Institute Author of Fascia: What It Is and Why It Matters of Structural Integration. The Rolf Institute Szaja Charles Gottlieb and David Lesondak reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to accept or reject any article Remembering Hadidjah Lamas 54 for publication in Structural Integration: The Mary Bond Journal of The Rolf Institute. REVIEWS Structural Integration: The Journal of The A Very Fine Book About Fascia —That Forgets to Thank Dr. Rolf: 54 Rolf Institute® (ISBN-13: 978-0997956962, A Review of Fascia: What It Is and Why It Matters by David Lesondak ISSN 1538-3784) is published by the Rolf Szaja Charles Gottlieb Institute, 5055 Chaparral Ct., Ste. 103, Boulder, CO 80301. Robert Toporek Shares His Life Legacy: A Review of 57 Hands-on Parenting: A Practical Guide to Massage for Happier, Copyright ©2018 Rolf Institute. All rights Healthier, Smarter Kids by Robert Toporek reserved. Duplication in whole or in part Lina Hack in any form is prohibited without written permission from the publisher. CONTACTS 58 “Rolfing®,” “Rolf Movement®,” “Rolfer™,” and the Little Boy Logo are service marks of the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration. FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF In this issue of Structural Integration: The Journal of the Rolf Institute® we explore the topic of feet. I invited San Diego Rolfer™ Michael Boblett to be Guest Editor; he seemed the perfect person, having written about feet in previous issues. I’ll let him first introduce the articles and interviews he so carefully shepherded, before returning to discuss the material in our Perspectives section. From Michael Boblett, Guest Editor, “Considering the Feet”: We last had a Journal theme devoted to the feet in June 2011 (Vol. 39, No. 1), with some follow-up in the December 2011 issue (Vol. 39, No. 2). All of those articles still bear relevance – so I invite you to revisit them – yet there is more to be said. As feet and support in the field of gravity are particularly relevant in the field of Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI), we are now circling back to this topic. We start with two Rolfing ‘lineage holders’, Mary Bond and Jan Sultan. Bond shares an excerpt from her forthcoming book,Your Body Mandala: Posture as a Path to Presence, and takes the reader from a mechanistic view of the foot to an understanding based on the flow of information back and forth between feet and the rest of the body. My interview with Sultan is a free-range romp through many aspects of the foot – from the role of the ‘eye of the foot’ in Chinese medicine to eccentric vs. concentric muscle movement in different approaches to exercise. Our dialogue was hardly linear, but the principle of holism in Rolfing SI informs us that a broad view is intrinsic to our work. We then get down to practical tools and advice in articles by Beatriz Pacheco, Michael Boblett (yours truly), and Anne Hoff. In her essay “Maps of the Feet,” Pacheco shares a new frontier – a tool she has developed for client education, engagement, and assessment. Adding in her professional knowledge as a speech therapist, she explores the effects of oral reflex functions, such as chewing and sucking, on clients’ weight bearing through the feet and their perceptions of the same. I continue my earlier work with “The Three-Dimensional Foot, Part 3,” focusing on practical exercises for all foot typologies, as well as larger questions of managing client expectations and client demographics. Hoff’s “The Psychobiology of Feet – With Particular Attention to Childhood Issues” shows how traumas and medical interventions to feet and lower legs can greatly impact clients’ embodiment as well as biomechanics. The next two pieces focus on the natural state of our feet, and regaining that state through barefoot walking and minimalist shoes. My interview with Samuel Oltman, ND (of Northwest Foot and Ankle in Portland, Oregon) focused on foot ‘rehab’ from a lifetime of wearing shoes, ranging into proprioception, interoception, and a discussion of joint inflammation. Karin Edwards Wagner’s article guides readers concerning shoes and minimalist footwear, providing a great resource for both practitioners and clients. This is not just a list of brand or style recommendations. It’s a comprehensive guide to evaluating your shoes. We close the theme with “The Three Dimensional Animal, Part 2,” where I draw on my background in anthropology to go back to the roots of the anthropoid primate lineage to discuss the continuing balance between articulation and stability in the human foot. Following this sprawling selection of articles, we have our Perspectives section, which is also wide-ranging. We start with two luminaries in our community. Michael Salveson, another lineage holder, uses his article to explicate an important point: Rolfers love to learn other modalities (craniosacral work, nerve work, etc.), but it is important that we practice these within an over-arching methodology of Rolfing SI so as to not lose sight of our own uniqueness. We then have another one of our Advanced Faculty interviews, this time with Peter Schwind, a thought leader in the field of bodywork. In this interview we learn a whole lot more about Schwind, and particularly his important contributions in bridging between Rolfing SI and osteopathy. Then we learn from Hiroyoshi Tahata about the unique Japanese concept of ma – which relates to both time and space, particularly emptiness in space and intervals in time. Tahata brings ma into the ‘yielding’ work he and fellow Rolf Movement® faculty member Carol Agneessens developed, again pioneering new territory and showing us how the subtlest aspects of our work can in and of themselves support phenomenal structural changes. Next, Szaja Gottlieb interviews David Lesondak, author of Fascia – What It Is and Why It Matters. Gottlieb reviewed Lesondak’s book for this issue, both lauding it for its exceptional and accessible roundup on the current state of fascia research and taking issue that Lesondak – perplexingly for an SI practitioner – seems to dispense with the idea of gravity, a hallmark of SI from its inception with Rolf. Their feisty dialogue looks at this point in great detail. Rounding out our Perspectives section, we have a tribute to Hadidjah Lamas, a very early student of Dr. Rolf. We close the issue with two book reviews. The aforementioned review of Fascia: What It Is and Why It Matters, and a review of Hands-on Parenting: A Practical Guide to Massage for Happier, Healthier, Smarter Kids, Robert Toporek’s legacy contribution on the importance of bodywork for the optimal structural (and broader) development of infants and children. We hope you enjoy these many and varied contributions to our field. Anne F. Hoff Editor-in-Chief Michael Boblett Guest Editor 2 Structural Integration / March 2018 www.rolf.org COLUMNS the client in terms of feeling how the foot Ask the Faculty can yield to the floor and to the weight that comes through from above. About Feet If the foot tends towards valgus and the ® medial and transverse arches tend to Q: Looking at our theme on the feet from the viewpoint of Rolfing collapse, I will work to help organize Structural Integration (SI), what can you share with us about any of these: the plantar fascia (since the pattern of 1) assessment (e.g., is there a foot typology or model you use in assessment?); collapse will be present there); work with 2) hands-on work (e.g., how much do you find that foot issues require foot work, the interosseous membrane to help get versus tracking problems into the lower and upper leg and pelvis – and elsewhere?; differentiation and aliveness in the long 3) movement (e.g., what foot movement exercises do you like to teach your clients?); muscles that have their superior insertions 4) psychobiological issues (e.g., the meaning of different morphologies and in the interosseous membrane and on the tibia and fibula; and I will do a lot of work function to clients and the process of transformation).
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