STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION / JUNE 2007 www.rolf.org 51 TABLE OF CONTENTS STRUCTURAL INtegratioN: COLUMNS THE JOURNAL OF Ask the Movement Faculty 2 THE ROLF INSTITUTE® In My Practice 4 June 2008 ROLFING AND PERCEPTION Vol. 36, No. 2 The Disclosive Power of Feeling 8 PUBLISHER Jeffrey Maitland, Ph.D. The Rolf Institute of Body as a Movement System 14 ® Structural Integration Kevin Frank 5055 Chaparral Ct., Ste. 103 The Evocation of Unique States of Consciousness Boulder, CO 80301 USA as a Consequence of Somatic Practices 24 (303) 449-5903 Michael Salveson (303) 449-5978 Fax (800) 530-8875 Thoughts on “CoRe” The Core as a Coordination 27 Editorial BOARD John Smith Eva Bucher Craig Ellis On Core (and Sleeve) 32 Stephen Paré Szaja Gottlieb Anne F. Hoff, Editor-in-Chief RESEARCH Linda Loggins Heidi Massa Interview with Serge Gracovetsky, Ph.D. 40 Rob McWilliams Kevin McCoy and Kevin Frank Deanna Melchynuk Susan Seecof, Managing Editor Perception and Reality Changes Following the Fascia Congress 43 Dave Sheldon Kim LeMoon REVIEWS Layout AND GRAPHIC DESIGN Everyday Stretches 46 Mercedes Hernández Reviewed by Christoph Sommer Movement, Stability & Lumbopelvic Pain 47 Articles in Structural Integration: The Reviewed by Robert McWilliams Journal of The Rolf Institute® represent the Anatomy of Breathing and The Female Pelvis 49 views and opinions of the authors and Reviewed by Susanna Baxter do not necessarily represent the official positions or teachings of the Rolf Institute The Body Has a Mind of Its Own 50 of Structural Integration. The Rolf Institute Reviewed by Kevin Frank reserves the right, in its sole and absolute Three Books on the Cranium 52 discretion, to accept or reject any article for Reviewed by Russell Stolzoff publication in Structural Integration: The Journal of The Rolf Institute. How to Calm and Center Yourself When You’re Stressed or Anxious 55 Structural Integration: The Journal of The Rolf Reviewed by Anne F. Hoff Institute® (USPS 0005-122, ISSN 1538-3784) is published quarterly by the Rolf Institute, Robert Fulford, D.O. and the Philosopher Physician 56 5055 Chaparral Ct., Ste. 103, Boulder, Reviewed by Anne F. Hoff CO 80301. Periodicals Postage Paid at MEMORIAL Boulder, Colorado. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Structural Integration: John Garbutt Lodge 57 The Journal of The Rolf Institute®, 5055 Chaparral Ct., Ste. 103, Boulder, CO 80301. INSTITUTE NEWS Copyright ©2008 Rolf Institute. All rights Graduates 60 reserved. Duplication in whole or in part in any form is prohibited without written 2008-2009 Schedule 61 permission from the publisher. Contacts 62 Rolfing® is a service mark of the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration. Cover: Photo of John Lodge and some of his illustrations. COLUMNS of the support that we get from adequate connection to space. Contact with the world opens as we become aware of the unique ways we use our senses, which in turn organizes our movements even before we move. Through awareness of how we Ask the Movement Faculty connect to our environment, objects and “the other,” the Line becomes something fluid and adaptable, a presence that is Integration of Structure and Function in relevant to our daily lives. 3. To work with Rolf Movement techniques does the Training of Certified Rolfers not mean to fix, to correct, to change the client, By Rebecca Carli-Mills, Certified Advanced Rolfer™, but rather to create possibilities for the client to Rolf Movement Faculty be in the world with greater stability, flexibility, fluidity, vitality and unity.3 Life is relational in that we must adapt to What are some ideas in Rolf Movement Integration that make the constant flow of demands from the ® environment and situations we encounter it essential to the study of Rolfing ? along the way. Some of our responses are hard-wired and our survival depends on o begin, this question should be set in tissues need them. But when survival isn’t at stake, Tthe context of the evolution of basic t o b e c o m e we can respond more adaptively instead Rolfing training, which now integrates free to have of reacting in fixed patterns, and better structural and functional work. In the the necessary absorb the richness of our individual life training, the understanding of movement adaptability experience and have a positive impact on work and its connection to the Ten Series is f o r n e w our world. foundational. Students exchange movement coordination sessions during Unit Two and teach in movement. “Integration” has frequently been a word movement sessions to clients in Unit Three. N e w c o - ascribed to the goals of Rolf Movement. They also learn to address the functional o rd i n a t i o n Several movement theory ideas foster the aspects of each Rolfing session. Because may reveal client’s ability to organically assimilate of this focus, it is essential that a student t h a t w h a t information and experiences pertaining enters the training with a basic grasp of appears to be to structural work. Skills for working with the interwoven nature of the structural and in the tissue coordination and perception are taught functional aspects of our work. a c t u a l l y throughout the entire training, but are derives from habits of conflicted motor most refined during the Rolf Movement To answer this question, I will draw from control. Core stabilization illustrates Certification. These skills provide a Certified ideas and concepts articulated by various this concept. Many spinal fixations are Rolfer™ with techniques that enhance the movement faculty members, in order to chronic because of faulty patterns in integrative aspects of a Rolfing® series. In offer an answer that is comprehensive coordination. Core stability is an expression what follows, I will describe three types and reflects the current evolution of of coordinative integrity. When stability fails, of movement interventions along with Rolf Movement work. I will give only a as in chronic low back pain, Rolfing offers a some theoretical background relevant to broad overview, as the details are better way to recover it through movement. It is movement work in the training of Rolfers. conveyed through training and mentorship not enough to free fixations in the tissues avenues. because if we do not also free the fixations PRE-MOVEMENT in movement patterns, the tissue releases The first exposure that many students have First there is the art of making an intervention will either be ineffective or the patterns will to Rolf Movement is during their five-session at the level of “pre-movement.” Pre- re-create themselves over time. movement series that is required for entry movement is how our body orients in into the training. Through experiencing 2. While structural Rolfing provides the preparation for movement. It happens this series, the Rolf Movement faculty necessary conditions for the Line to emerge, the beneath our conscious awareness and would like a prospective student to gain a movement work gives life to the Line.2 precedes the actual action. Adaptable pre- basic understanding of the following three movements orient us skillfully in gravity fundamental concepts: The Rolfing “Line” is an aliveness to context and are harmonious with the demands of expressed through the attitude of posture. 1. The movement work frees fixations in patterns the movement. For example, a good batter Awakening this aliveness is the enduring of movement while the structural work frees grounds for appropriate stability while at goal of Rolfing and Rolf Movement. fixations in the tissues.1 the same time orients skillfully in space for a Aliveness to context is rekindled over and powerful swing. The degree to which all of Rolf Movement work and structural Rolfing over when we understand and develop a this happens occurs in a split second based have a reciprocal effect on each other. The kinesthetic sense of gravity and support on the batter’s assessment of the direction, from the ground, along with a felt sense 2 www.rolf.org STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION / JUNE 2008 COLUMNS timing and velocity of the pitcher’s pitched more fundamental than our relationship person is different and as practitioners we ball. with mother. Deep aspects of our psychic, adapt and respond, so that we may offer physical, and experiential memory are the widest range and depth in experience. Our pre-movements become entrenched, based upon our perceived relationship with What works for one person may or may not just like tissue fixations, and are constantly gravity, so we are not working in superficial have any relevance to another. As Jim Asher repeated in many circumstances. Once the waters when we intervene at the level of the says, “you just have to have lots of tools in pre-movement is set up, the actions that pre-movement. your toolbox.” follow will be organized around that set of conditions. For example, a walk across the room may be preceded by contraction ComparisoN BRIDGE-BUILDING in part of the diaphragm. In order to find A second key point in Rolf Movement Once we have assisted the client in finding an organic option for a shift in gait, the theory is the technique of comparison. It an effective cue or awareness, he/she needs practitioner must first address the pre- is not enough for the Rolfer to simply say to anchor it for himself/herself. Practicing movement, the tiny clutch in the breathing “...now you are walking differently.” For a the sensations of a new movement pattern muscle. Any movement cues that do not client to fully own the change, he/she needs in “real time” situations will enable the first address this primary issue will lay to arrive at the conclusion himself/herself.