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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

DR. IDA PAULINE ROLF

1896 - 1979

EMMETT HUTCHINS

1934 - 2016

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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
  • Balance the girdles
  • Inspiration

SESSION ONE

  • Pre-hour look: lack of organization. Tissue pinned to bone. Bones “shiny.” Tonus uneven. Blocks out
  • Pre-Hour sensation: Pain. “Need a change.” “Blocked, stuck.” Life-body imbalance. “I know there’s more...”
  • Hour goggles: How they wear their external fascia. Breathing pattern. The field in which they live. Which girdle relates better to the planes of the earth?

SESSION ONE GOALS

  • Make room in the “wetsuit”
  • Balance/ease/relate the girldles
  • Improve the breathing pattern and increase vital capacity

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SESSION TWO

  • Interosseous membrane
  • Gliding talus
  • Safety
  • Connect spine to earth
  • Open the exit for strain
  • Under-standing
  • Grounding
  • Proprioception
  • Born to walk

SESSION TWO

  • Pre - hour look: Lack of reaching through heel/dorsiflexion, back looks short, eyes tilted off horizon, “tiptoeing”
  • Pre - hour sensation: Positive results from Hour 1, feeling “airy,” backache concerns
  • Hour Goggles: How they extend into the earth. Outer arch short and overused. Frozen fibula. Where does spine “wink?” Mobility of spine and ability of feet to get into the ground.

SESSION TWO GOALS

  • Grounding
  • Balancing the 3 Arches
  • Functional Horizontal Hinge at Ankle
  • Lengthen Back

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“ foot is a mental construct - the anatomy of your foot goes all the way up your body”
Gil Hedley

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SESSION THREE

  • “Free the 12th rib!”
  • “We don’t get short, we get wide and thin”
  • “Feel like a fish”
  • Pick up stitches from 1
  • Relate the girdles
  • Move what belongs to the front to the front, and the back to the back
  • Organize the blocks
  • Remove the corset
  • “Reaching out”

SESSION THREE

  • Pre - hour look: Short sides, GT to head of humerus
  • Pre - hour sensation: More experience of feet, “new shoes,”
  • Hour goggles: Lateral line asymmetrical side to side

SESSION THREE GOALS

  • Establish lateral midline
  • Balance front and back
  • Free the 12th rib
  • Free the girdles

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“If I were forced to specialize in one spot on the human body, heaven forbid, I guess it would be the twelfth rib.”
- Dr. Ida P.Rolf

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“If the shoulder girdle doesn’t have ribs to rest on then it reaches for the neck.”
- Neal Powers

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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
  • “The Catholic Session”

SESSION FOUR

  • Pre-hour look: Short inner leg lines
  • Pre-hour sensation: 90% yay! 10% boo!
  • Hour goggles: Inside line short; more of a twist down the middle than the sides; how legs and spine relate

SESSION FOUR GOALS

  • Establish inner leg line
  • Awaken/balance pelvic floor
  • Horizontalize and mobilize pelvis
  • Free legs from pelvis and pelvis from legs
  • Optimize relationship between legs and lumbar spine

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SESSION FIVE

  • Lengthen the front
  • 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 FIVE

  • Pre-hour look: Turned-down pot belly; “spilling guts;” anterior tilt of pelvis
  • Pre-hour sensation: Old pains; “tenderheartedness;” short temper
  • Hour goggles: Head that’s forward due to short front. Pubic sym to xyphoid short. Pulled down sternum.

SESSION FIVE GOALS

  • Balance core and sleeve
  • Lengthen and mobilize thoracic spine
  • Organize and mobilize diagonal slings
  • Lengthen lumbars
  • Differentiate abdominal layers
  • Free the scapula front to back
  • Make room for the psoas

“Rhomboid/Psoas balance.”
- IPR

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“The sacred bone floats on a sea of breath”
- Maria

SESSION SIX

  • “The Floating Sacrum”
  • Rest on your heels
  • Access the wisdom of your past
  • Balanced Yin
  • The posterior chain
  • Perpetual motion

SESSION SIX

  • Pre-hour look: “Kicked in the rear;” Bow in body; deep anterior sacrum
  • Pre-hour sensation: More up! Low back pain; gut concerns; renewed sexual functions
  • Hour Goggles: Kicked in the rear; short hamstrings; knees frozen in flexion; wandering heels

SESSION SIX GOALS

  • Grounding - the negative pole
  • Connection between sacrum and heels
  • Breathing sacrum
  • Free coccyx
  • H&M pelvis
  • Lengthen back
  • Front/back balance
  • Prepare for 7

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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”

SESSION SEVEN

  • Pre-hour look: “Head thrown on from across the room”- IPR. Head forward of vertical
  • Pre-hour sensation: Good or weird in tail/back; more movement in pelvis; heat (energized)
  • Hour goggles: One block that doesn’t belong; movement of first 3 ribs; big head/small face or vice/versa; what is it that’s not symmetrical/alive; where are the major traumas fixated in their energy field?

SESSION SEVEN GOALS

  • Create a horizontal head to match a horizontal pelvis
  • Balancing cervicals with lumbars
  • Breathing cranium to match breathing sacrum
  • Balance tissues of the head, neck, and thorax
  • Core space/prevertebral support
  • Address viscerocranial relation to core

“If the head is not put on in the Seventh Hour, it will be impossible to keep what you get in hours one through six. The twelve- to fifteen-pound head, if still carried forward, is anchored by the fourth, fifth, and sixth ribs during every waking hour.”
- IPR

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“The Seventh Hour ends the taking-apart or differentiation phase of Structural Integration. The turning point is almost exactly mid-hour, soon after you begin work inside the head.”

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SESSIONS EIGHT AND NINE WISDOM

  • “No Recipe” - IPR
  • “If lower body doesn’t present organization to support above, never do an upper 8” -IPR
  • “Anything that rises to meet you should be lengthened” - NP
  • “Always be looking for translation and restriction between distant points” - NP
  • Arms = Neck
  • “If there is a recipe for 8&9, start at the crest in sideline” - IPR
  • “If you still need to work on the inside of the legs, do it in 8, not 10” - IPR
  • “Let the body talk to you” - EH
  • “The 8th and 9th hours must deal with large fascial sheets” - EH

SESSIONS EIGHT AND NINE WISDOM

  • “Let the body talk to you” - EH
  • “If you still need to work on the inside of the legs, do it in 8, not 10” - IPR
  • “The 8th and 9th hours must deal with large fascial sheets” - EH
  • Critical reasoning

SESSIONS EIGHT AND NINE GOALS

  • Lumbars
  • Diagonals
  • Rotations
  • Sheets
  • Pick up stitches from previous corresponding hours
  • Special projects

SESSIONS EIGHT AND NINE

“The spine must return to its place of Origen.”
- IPR

“You don’t run because you’re afraid, you’re afraid because you’re running.”
- William Blake

“Psoas, the story goes…”
- TM

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SESSION NINE THEMES

  • Spine taking girdles for a walk
  • Bodies tend to go wide with gravity
  • “Stand up inside yourself”
  • “Uncorking”
  • Diagonals
  • Creativity
  • Lighten the load of upper body on TLJ

SESSION NINE THEMES

  • Rhomboid/Psoas balance
  • Rotation of thoracic spine
  • TLJ function
  • Lighten the load of the upper body on TLJ

SESSION NINE THEMES

  • Anything from 1,3,5,7
  • 5th Hour abdominals
  • Arms, arm pit
  • Neck, Head, Mouth, Nose
  • Bench work against wall
  • Hug a tree
  • Standing wall work - pin and slide and trust fall

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HOUR 10

“Inside-out first hour.”
- IPR

“Candy twist”
- IPR

SESSION TEN WISDOM

  • Add gratitude
  • Think big picture
  • “The whole changes the parts” - EH
  • Wholeness - touch most of the body
  • Keep as many hinges in view as possible
  • NO: deflating language 4th hour stuff fix-it thinking
  • Keep moving and shaking

SESSION TEN GOALS

  • Front/Back balance
  • “Stand up inside of yourself”
  • Horizontalize joints without rotation
  • Look closely at blocks
  • Connections: sacrum to breath head to breath sit bones to heels
  • Polarity
  • Supportive conversation about post-10: Movement Tune-ups Reflect early goals and wishes
  • Remove your footprints, exit the temple

SESSION TEN

  • Pre-hour look: Tootsie Roll - tight at ankles and neck
  • Pre-hour sensation: Bittersweet
  • Hour goggles: How many horizontals have you got? “Twists chased out to the ends.” Adjust the wrappings around movement from core. How do I cover my tracks?

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