Discover the Benefits of A Holistic Approach

Rolfing can improve your posture and mobility, benefiting both your physical and emotional well-being.

Understanding how Rolfing works can help you decide if Rolfing is right for you or your friends and family. It can also help you get more out of your sessions.

The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet by Nina Teicholz, is an eye opening modern history about how everything we have believed about fat is wrong, and all the politics and poorly conducted science that has made us believe that fat is bad.

There are conflicting popular opinions about dairy consumption. How much do you need every day, what kind of dairy is good for you? You need the calcium to build strong bones and teeth, right? But fat is bad for you, and will make you fat, raising your cholesterol and leading to heart disease. Every single one of these statements is completely wrong, but everyone from our regulatory agencies to our own personal physicians still perpetuate these myths. Is dairy good for y

Back Pain is not simply an issue with your back, it is a full body issue. To properly address back pain one must develop support for the back by looking at issues with the hips, legs, and shoulders. The best results will be found holistically, addressing the whole individual, not just the area of pain.

When it comes to posture, people often seek ways to improve it. While pondering this question, more questions arise. How should a person stand, sit, or walk? What constitutes good posture, both static and dynamic? Many have offered advice since childhood, mostly with good intentions, but not without error. Rolfing was developed to help individuals align their posture with gravity, both in static and moving forms. There are many details to consider, but you cannot know the for

When it was first declared that eggs are bad for you, especially the yolks because they are high in cholesterol, it was all over the news. One could not avoid seeing this in headlines, in periodicals, magazines, and health columns in the newspapers. Everyone knows that eggs are bad for you right? Well did you hear about it when scientists gave eggs the green light? Probably not, and this is the problem. When shocking discoveries are made it is publicized far and wide, wh

Much has been said and done around the question of "how to breath" as if it would not occur naturally and without our direct intervention. With the interest in yoga to the west has come many breathing techniques, likewise with eastern martial arts, and even western sports. Despite all of this interest in breath there are still a lot of different opinions floating around and not all of them agree. I have explored quite a few different practices from different traditions lik

This book by P.D. Ouspensky is an invaluable source for studying and understanding the mystical and developmental ideas of G.I. Gurdjieff. Originally and probably better titled "Fragments of an Unknown Teaching" this book was Ouspensky's account of meeting Gurdjieff and becoming part of a group he began teaching in Tsarist Russia, the dissemination and development of his ideas, and their eventual escape from their war torn Bolshevik home.

Common Questions about Rolfing Answered.

Exploring Diet and Health: Insights from Dr. Mark Hyman Changing Views about Diet Exploring changing views about diet while battling systemic inflammation has led me to numerous books by both physicians and scientists. There is a growing mountain of evidence from modern scientific studies suggesting that our understanding of what constitutes healthy eating is not just wrong, but fundamentally backwards. Many of the books I encountered focus on weight loss, yet I am not primar

Rolfing, or structural Integration, is a unique and transformative approach to physical organization. This process of manual therapy manipulates the body's muscle and connective tissues to promote alignment and range of motion.

When we develop lower back pain, it can be alarming. When it does not go away or worsens, it can become quite distressing. Chronic lower back pain can be not just annoying but also debilitating. Relying solely on medications to cope with pain often proves only temporarily effective. Eventually, a person might ponder, "What is actually causing my back pain?" Naturally, someone with persistent lower back pain will consult a medical professional. This can lead to a series of dia

Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health by Ken D. Berry, MD is a fascinating book. It outlines many medical myths that are not only perpetuated by the public but also by physicians. These commonly believed medical "truths" have often been disproved or questioned by modern research. Yet, medical schools and doctors continue to believe and share them. Many things we have been told about diet, exercise, medication, and self-care have been silently retrac

Addressing Common Questions About Rolfing This blog aims to address questions about Rolfing and alternative health care. It primarily benefits my clients, but it also serves to educate the public about what Rolfing is and what it is not. Among the various articles available online, my post Is Rolfing Quakery is one of the most read. This popularity likely stems from the frequently searched title. I wrote this article in response to the openly hostile Wikipedia article on Ro

Gurdjieff emphasized working with the sensation of the body when trying to be present to the mind and emotions. This is known as Remembering Yourself. In addition, one is to practice self observation, without analysis, while trying to cultivate an impartial view of oneself, and working with the body is an important practice to actualize this.

Most people these days know of the benefits of stretching. Even as children we are taught to stretch a bit and warm up before physical activity or face the danger of injury. Coaches and physical therapists alike generally have a good handful of stretching techniques, and I remember that in martial arts like Aikido we would spend at least 15 minutes stretching and warming up before we began doing anything else. The wide variety of stretches we have had traditionally in the

This book is a must for anyone interested in gut health and food sensitivities. Not only does Dr. Grundy address what foods harm your gut biome, he addresses what foods feed the healthy flora in your gut. In this book we read about the science behind leaky gut syndrome, previously thought to be an unproven myth by many practitioners in the medical field. We learn how many foods can trigger an immune response if they pass through the gut wall unprocessed by the microbes who

I have been assisting with classes at the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute. Although most of the students we are sending out every year are not local, a fair amount of them are. Sometimes it seems like I am simply making more competition for myself if they are going to set up anywhere near my practice, as there is not the demand for Rolfing that you may experience in other disciplines like chiropractic, physical therapy, massage, etc. I do not really to think of it this way though,

It may seem that allergies and sensitivities to wheat are cropping up all over the place (pun intended) and you might be wondering if this