There seems to be a lot of confusion in the public’s awareness of the difference between Rolfing Structural Integration and deep tissue massage therapy. Instead of writing one more article explaining Rolfing SI and how it can benefit you, I have decided to take a different approach. I recently had a new client come into [...]
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Professional Baseball Players use Rolfing® SI to Recover From Injury and Stay in the Game
Over the past 25 years many professional baseball players have used Rolfing® Structural Integration to help them recover from injuries and stay in the game. Here is a list of half a dozen players who have benefited from receiving Rolfing® SI. 1) Sean Casey, former Major League Baseball first baseman During his career National League [...]
Leon Fleisher Uses Rolfing® SI and Botox® to Return to Playing Piano With Both Hands
Watch piano virtuoso Leon Fleisher’s most recent interview with PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown. Fleisher’s memoir My Nine Lives is mentioned and they discuss Fleisher’s long career from two-handed playing, to one-handed playing, to teaching and conducting. Fleisher speaks about his neurological disorder focal dystonia and how he recovered the use of his right hand through [...]
San Francisco Bay Area Media Cover Rolfing® Structural Integration
It’s been a fantastic three days for news coverage of Rolfing SI in the San Francisco Bay Area. First, on December 4, the San Jose Mercury News re-published the October 7, 2010, New York Times Style Section piece about Rolfing SI. Here are some highlights from the article. Popular in the 1970s, Rolfing once evoked [...]
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson tweets about his Rolfing® SI Session
About 3 hours ago Adrian Peterson NFL running back for the Minnesota Vikings tweeted this about Rolfing SI from his BlackBerry®. Adrian Peterson Hello twitter world! I’m at my rolfing session right now! And its wonderful for the body, but its PAINFUL! Here’s more about how the Minnesota Vikings use Rolfing® SI to help them [...]
Rolfing® SI Featured on The Today Show with Kathie Lee & Hoda
On October 15, 2010 Jan Sultan, Rolf Institute Faculty member trained by Dr. Ida Rolf herself, and Rey Allen, Certified Advanced Rolfer™ participated in a short segment featuring Rolfing® Structural Integration on The Today Show with Kathie Lee & Hoda. This segment comes on the heels of last week’s New York Times Style Section article [...]
Rolfing® SI Featured in 10 Page Bodywork Slideshow on iVillage.com
I was recently interviewed by reporter Marissa Capodanno for an article about bodywork modalities she wrote for www.iVillage.com. The slideshow turned out well with Rolfing SI being featured in its very own slide. However, due to space limitations, much of the interview was not included in the piece. I thought I would publish the full [...]
Freedom from twister cables as I stretch my body and soul
In reconstructing the timeline for this article I discovered I wore the twister cables for 15 to 18 months. I was still wearing the cables when I entered kindergarten in the fall of 1972. (In the photo to the left I’m the blonde beside the teacher).Until that time I had been relatively sheltered at home [...]
Starkey Labs Wins 2010 Award for Innovative Work Comp Program That Includes Rolfing® SI
Starkey Laboratories, Inc. of Eden Prairie, Minnesota has earned the 2010 Governor’s Award for Innovative Measures in Workers’ Compensation from the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry and the Worker’s Compensation Advisory Council. Here is a 1997 video clip about Starkey’s program from WCCO TV. Starkey Laboratories has 1,760 U.S. employees and is a world [...]
The Rolf Institute® Membership Conference
2009 Was Divine: Wish You’d Been There? The official theme for the newly renamed 2009 Rolf Institute® Membership Conference was “The Shifting Sands of Rolfing®: Body Maps, Perception, Gravity.” The event was formerly known as the annual meeting, but “membership conference” seems a more fitting name given the emphasis on presentations and the sharing of [...]
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How I Became A Certified Rolfer™ Part 4 (Finding My Calling)
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Rolfing® SI Featured on The Today Show with Kathie Lee & Hoda
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How Swedenborg’s Mysticism Influenced Osteopathy, Rolfing® SI and The Psychological Lineage of The Fledgling Esalen® Institute
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Ida Rolf Was Studying Yoga Decades Before The Beatles Discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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More Connections Between Emanuel Swedenborg, Ida Rolf & William Sutherland, DO
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FAQ About Rolfing® Structural Integration
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More Connections Between Emanuel Swedenborg, Ida Rolf & William Sutherland, DO
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My soul death is averted by Rolfing® Structural Integration
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Is Rolfing® Structural Integration the Same as Deep Tissue Massage and Myofascial Release?
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Rolfing® SI Helps Aikido Practitioner Improve Her Posture
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Carole LaRochelle: Here is a link to an April 10, 2013 article about ...
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Judy Ebbe: You have an interesting website. Clarificatio...
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Robert Nellessen: Dear Carole, I read parts 1 and 2. Fascinating. ...
