My colleague Beth and I would like to introduce the third of our videos, drawing on the fundamentals of Rolfing to provide actionable tips to improve balance and posture in essential movements of the human body.

My colleague (regrettably unable to convene this week) and I started a project to communicate some of the fundamental elements of posture and movement from Rolfing's perspective, and we would like to introduce the second of our videos.

My colleague and I started a project to communicate some of the fundamental elements of posture and movement from Rolfing's perspective, and we would like to introduce the second of our videos.

I spoke earlier today about Gravity and how it can serve to draw us into a more harmonious alignment. As is so often the case, many birds came to perch once I left the branch, and I found it difficult to let them fly off without mention.

I spoke earlier today about Gravity and how it can serve to draw us into a more harmonious alignment. As is so often the case, many birds came to perch once I left the branch, and I found it difficult to let them fly off without mention.

As a way of maintaining contact during these strange times, I have been discussing different elements of Rolfing in the format of recorded videos. In this video I attempted to convey one way that Rolfing is different than many other kinds of therapy.

I wished to add a few brush strokes to clarify the picture that we have been painting over the last videos. In this video I spoke a little bit about how Rolfing is different than many other kinds of therapy.

I wished to follow up on some of the ideas that I introduced in the first video and attempted to illustrate in the second and make an important distinction between the analogies that I offered and the reality that they are meant to represent.

A number of people found the last video helpful but many people also found themselves with further question. Some even found themselves in a state of downright confusion. I have no illusion that I will be able to resolve all of these things with a second video for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that I am still exploring them myself.

I don't imagine there is someone who can say that the Corona-pandemic has not substantially affected her life. One thing this has meant for me is finding ways to communicate with patients and clients whom I cannot see face-to-face during these strange times.

“Practitioners of Structural Integration do not feel themselves to be therapists. The gravitational field is the therapist. What we do is prepare the body to receive the support from the gravitational field which gives a greater sense of well-being.”

—Ida Rolf

The Way of the Elbow, in its seventh year of business. With gratefulness to all of my clients in the Anchorage community and happily anticipating seven years to come.

“Rolfing… what’s that?”

To find oneself at the gunpoint of such a question is no unfamiliar experience. As tempting as it would be to have a pat answer that I could whip out of my back pocket like a bullet-proof cue-card, a response of this sort would fail to embody at least one of the five pillars of Rolfing® Structural Integration (i.e. the "Five Principles of Rolfing® SI are: Adaptability, Holism, Palintonicity, Support, & Closure).

The Way of the Elbow is re-opened for business on the G Street Location, No. 1409! Let us resume our project to promote universal integration & well-being for all! Call or message to schedule a Rolfing Session today!

The Way of the Elbow is re-opened for business on the G Street Location, No. 1409! Let us resume our project to promote universal integration & well-being for all! Call or message to schedule a Rolfing Session today!

Despite its incontrovertible refutation by new discoveries over the last century, Scientific Materialism* maintains a general hegemony over our modern thinking as it has for centuries. The cultural inertia of this paradigm echoes that of other great institutions: the United States Government expressly resisted the practical conclusions of the very Enlightenment philosophy that Thomas Jefferson so eloquently espoused in its founding documents for the better part of an hundred years—until 1863 when President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ostensibly freed all former slaves.

Hello! I am a certified Rolfer® who has recently moved to the Bay Area to begin a master's program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and consciousness at The California Institute of Integral Studies. For my readers unfamiliar with Rolfing® Structural Integration, it is a hands-on therapy designed to help clients overcome long-term chronic tension, strains, & injuries to achieve optimal balance in the body.

After three years of business serving the Rolfing® needs of the Anchorage community, The Way of the Elbow has relocated its headquarters to Sausalito, California, to accommodate its quixotic owner’s chimerical quests for higher knowledge (in this instance, to undertake a master’s program in Philosophy, Cosmology, & Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco).

Phenomenology (that branch of philosophy which studies the nature of experience itself rather than abstractions & concepts about it) delineates two modes of mental processing: reflective & pre-reflective. In relation to the first installment on this topic, we might conceive of a correspondence between reflective processing & the neomammilian complex in the triune brain schema.