July/August 2023

Great work necessitates mastering certain fundamentals, yet the result of all that work is something far greater.

Techniques that pin, twist, sling, and resist help clients engage with painful movement barriers by introducing novel stimuli that hold the brain’s attention.

Expressing a genuine interest in hearing the nature of the client’s complaint is the first step to building trust between you and them. Knowing what information to delve into is partly experience, but having a working knowledge of the most common musculoskeletal issues can help develop your investigation strategy.

Although there may be no way to completely relieve the existential pathos of aging and physical change, in our role as practitioners, we can be both companions and comforters to our clients who are experiencing physical and emotional loss.

Rolf Movement Integration practitioners are trained to work with a person’s gravity response as the basis to evoke movement that is more effective and authentically expressive, uses less effort, minimizes counterproductive muscular contraction, and allows for greater subtlety of motor control.

Describing a trigger point is impossible without attempting to interpret what it feels like. It’s a bit like trying to explain laughter.