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Structural Integration THE JOURNAL OF THE ROLF INSTITUTE® JUNE 2009 Seeds of ® Rolfing TABLE OF CONTENTS STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION: COLUMNS THE JOURNAL OF Ask the Faculty: Continuing Education 2 THE ROLF INSTITUTE® Ask the Movement Faculty: Shoulder Tension 3 June 2009 Vol. 37, No. 2 Practice Building: Private Practice to Business Practice 6 PUBLISHER In My Practice: Michel Ginoulhac & Pedro Prado 8 The Rolf Institute of Structural Integration® ROLFING® HISTORY 5055 Chaparral Ct., Ste. 103 A Fift y-Year Perspective of Rolfi ng 12 Boulder, CO 80301 USA Gael Ohlgren (303) 449-5903 (303) 449-5978 Fax The Development of the Rolf Movement Work 16 (800) 530-8875 An Interview with Vivian Jaye and Jane Harrington Anne Hoff EDITORIAL BOARD Rolfi ng in Brazil 21 Sara Bayer Heidi Massa Eva Bucher Craig Ellis Why Ida Rolf Chose Boulder for the Rolf Institute® 24 Szaja Gott lieb An Interview with Jim Asher Anne F. Hoff , Editor-in-Chief Dave Sheldon Linda Loggins Heidi Massa Rob McWilliams PERSPECTIVES Deanna Melchynuk The Confl uence of Neuroscience and Structural Integration 26 John Schewe A Discussion with Sandra Blakeslee Susan Seecof, Managing Editor Kevin Frank Dave Sheldon Phenomenological Space 29 LAYOUT AND An Interview with Hubert Godard GRAPHIC DESIGN Caryn McHose Susan Winter Gett ing It 34 Jeff rey Maitland, Ph.D. Articles in Structural Integration: The Journal of The Rolf Institute® represent the views and opinions of the authors and REVIEWS do not necessarily represent the offi cial positions or teachings of the Rolf Institute Skin of Glass 38 of Structural Integration. The Rolf Institute Reviewed by Mary Bond reserves the right, in its sole and absolute Integral Anatomy Series, Volume 4: Viscera and their Fasciae 40 discretion, to accept or reject any article Reviewed by Bruce Schonfeld for publication in Structural Integration: The Journal of The Rolf Institute. Deepening Musical Performance through Movement 41 Reviewed by Carolyn Pike Structural Integration: The Journal of The Rolf Institute® (USPS 0005-122, ISSN 1538-3784) is published quarterly by the Rolf Institute, MEMORIALS 5055 Chaparral Ct., Ste. 103, Boulder, CO 80301. Periodicals Postage Paid at Ruth Mendelsohn 43 Boulder, Colorado. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Structural Integration: The Journal of The Rolf Institute®, 5055 INSTITUTE NEWS Chaparral Ct., Ste. 103, Boulder, CO 80301. Graduates/Announcements 45 Copyright ©2009 Rolf Institute. All rights reserved. Duplication in whole or in part 2009 Class Schedule 46 in any form is prohibited without writt en 2010 Class Schedule 47 permission from the publisher. Contacts 48 Rolfi ng® is a service mark of the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration. COLUMNS A You mention having heard that “Dr. Rolf said to focus on Rolfi ng only for a number of years.” I myself have heard her quoted diff erently, as having said that one should “stick to the Recipe” for several Ask the Faculty years. Perhaps she said both things – but they are very diff erent things, as Rolfi ng On Continuing Education is more than the Recipe, and Rolfers do employ tools and strategies beyond the Recipe while engaged in the practice of I’m a relatively new practitioner and I see many choices and options for continuing education Rolfi ng Structural Integration. In fact, as a Q (CE) to fulfi ll my manipulation and elective credits before advanced training. I have heard new practitioner, your basic training most that Dr. Rolf said to focus on Rolfi ng® only for a number of years, but I also hear so much about the likely included many tools complementary enhanced results that come from integrating spinal mechanics, cranial and visceral work, or trauma to Dr. Rolf’s classic Ten Series. With work into my practice. What advice do you have on choosing a CE curriculum? And how do I bring that in mind, I hope you don’t mind if I in knowledge from other disciplines and yet stay true to the practice of structural integration? interpret your question to ask, “When and how should I venture more deeply into, or even beyond, what I learned in my experienced carpenter told me “It takes fi ve basic training?” A Aft er twenty-fi ve years of practicing years to learn anything. It will take you fi ve In answer to that question, I certainly agree Rolfi ng, my advice would be to immerse years to know that that piece of wood you’re with Paul Gordon and Michael Salveson 13 yourself in your Rolfi ng practice, studying cutt ing is 27 inches, /16ths and not 27 and about taking your time and solidifying 7 with Rolfers, so that Rolfi ng becomes your /8ths. That’s how long it takes. Don’t rush through experience what you already know. framework for any additional studies and it.” When I fi rst trained as a Rolfer, I was Dr. Rolf said it takes about fi ve years of practices that you add to it. Further studies told something similar by my teacher. Aft er steady work to really get a sense of what are like adding spices to a magnificent thirty-some years in practice, I can now tell this work is about. It is my take that beyond culinary entrée. Rolfi ng is a brilliant work, you that both the carpenter and my teacher gathering experience, she was referring to where Dr. Rolf discovered the innate were defi nitely right. Take your time; it only embodying the concepts of integration and order of the human body. There are now gets bett er. aligning what you know with your personal incredible tools to assist and encourage Paul Gordon, M.A abilities and interests. that order, such as the osteopathic work of spinal mechanics, craniaosacral, visceral, Certifi ed Advanced Rolfer, Your basic training gave you a framework and neural release. I have been immersed Fascial Anatomy Instructor on which you may now organize your in a yoga practice that informs me that continued development. You can use CE to reinforce and build up what you already Rolfi ng is perhaps the bodywork of yoga. First and foremost, I would choose A know, like, and have a natural talent to do, Many have uncovered this mystery of how classes that continue the development and and it will serve you well. But CE is also the human body works, but Rolfi ng appears support and expansion of the techniques an opportunity to grow by exploring less to integrate all of these parts of the mystery. and viewpoint you have learned in your familiar or comfortable aspects of the work. Be true to this work of structural integration basic training. Get good at what you have You may use CE both to build on your by practicing it and gett ing to know it as it learned. It is very gratifying to master the strengths and challenge your weaknesses becomes a part of you. Dr. Rolf was asked basics and it will produce results that will and biases. Therefore, in selecting your CE, near the end of her life what it felt like to strengthen your practice. I always think you might ask yourself: have developed this signifi cant work of that Rolfers’ development follows their structural integration. She answered simply curiosity, and that a Rolfer’s curiosity grows • What do I really like? What excites me? that she was “pleased to have provided out of his or her practice. As you work with • What do I avoid exploring or deepening? meaningful work for so many people.” what you already know and get good at it, Choose what is meaningful to you. There you will discover something very pressing • Am I a “big picture” person or a “detail” is tremendous freedom within the brilliant that you absolutely must learn about. person? structure of Rolfing. Find subjects that Learn that. Don’t be in a hurry. Let your • Do I gravitate to the physical – or to the excite your mind, fi nd the teachers that practice lead you. To do that, you have metaphysical? speak to your heart, and practice in service to cultivate your practice, which you will to the people who come through the door. do by mastering the material you already Balance is the key in planning what to Karen Lackritz know, as you serve the clients who come study. Go with what you are already good Certifi ed Advanced Rolfer™, to you from your community. Good luck. at and what excites you, but also take the opportunity to challenge yourself. Also, Rolfi ng Teacher-in-Training Michael J. Salveson do not forget your framework. Follow Certifi ed Advanced Rolfer, the logic of the “tenth hour”: As you seek Advanced Rolfi ng Instructor A I remember when I was in my twenties completion, always ask whether the new and was learning to build houses, a very knowledge can be integrated into the whole. 2 Structural Integration / June 2009 www.rolf.org COLUMNS Can you, in this moment, integrate the new help to refi ne his or her touch. Workshops viewpoint. Trainings like craniosacral, tool or technique into your framework for that focus on learning more about a specifi c Somatic Experiencing®, energy work, or Rolfi ng? In this moment, is there a place in part of the body from a Rolfi ng viewpoint visceral manipulation, to name a few, are your personal framework to put the tools – such as the shoulder girdle, the pelvic examples of workshops that Rolfers may of spinal mechanics, visceral manipulation girdle, and the spine – are workshops that take for elective credits. Workshops that or cranial work? If so, by all means explore may off er manipulation credit, as well as give elective credits are oft en taught by them.

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