PRESENTATION OUTLINE
“It’s biology, not psychology!”
“A brain without a body could not think”
~ Moshe Feldenkrais
“The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.”
~ Michelangelo
SESSION ONE
- Breath
- Coming out of my cage
- Learning how to be Rolfed
- Levity
- Superficial fascia
- Making room in the wetsuit
- Diaphragm between a rock and a hard place
SESSION TWO
- Grounding
- Proprioception
- Free the fibula!
- Balance arches
- Interosseous membrane
- Gliding talus
- Safety
- Connect spine to earth
- Open the exit for strain
SESSION THREE
- “Free the 12th rib!”
- Organize the side line
- We don’t get short, we get wide and thin
- Remove the corset
- QL
- Pick up stitches from 1
- Relate the girdles
SESSION FOUR
- Where your insides meet your outsides
- Base of the spine
- I can’t keep my ___ together
- Just suck it up
- Liberate low back from legs
- Deeper grounding
SESSION FIVE
- Lengthen the back
- Organize the abdomen
- Back pain is front strain!
- Soft belly, open heart
- Solar plexus
- Let the future come to you
- True length
- Balanced Yang
SESSION SIX
- “The floating sacrum”
- Lengthen the back
- Perpetual motion
- Rest on your heels
- Access the wisdom of your past
- Balanced Yin
SESSION SEVEN
- “The floating cranium”
- Lengthen the neck
- Make space from the inside out
- “The avenue of expression”
- New horizon
- Speak from your heart
- “The spiritual session”
SESSIONS EIGHT AND NINE
- Legs into center
- Psoas as reflection
- Arms into center
- Levity
- Rotation
- Slings
- Special projects
- The core emerges
“Where you think it is, it ain’t!
“Why doesn’t it go away on its own?!?”