Since my Advanced Rolfing® Fort Worth Dallas endeavor began, one thing has become clear, Rolfing® uncoupled from movement cues will not get the same results. What once seemed abstract, except for the occasional "aha," now seems much more tangible. Which begs the question "What is Rolfing" is also begging the hallows of movement protocols as well. Here is how I have incorporated movement into table collaborate with a client through session 5: First hour working with 3d breath exploration on table and standing in gravity. Second hour: Rolf Yoga on table and seated on floor, coupled with standing traction. Third hour: Arm drops and ocular uncoupling of limbs of expression. Fourth hour: Connecting eye of foot with pelvic floor and ocular uncoupling with limbs of support. Fifth hour: Walking bell clapper: moving from LDH and exploration in sensation of letting anal triangle "go."

My training in the art formally known as power yoga affords me the opportunity to work with movement in a unique way. There are dynamic postures that I feel could evoke contra-lateral movement if done with movement queuing and without. For example, fighting monkey, playing monkey, Komodo dragon, water wheel and others. Walking with Rolf Movement awareness of the spine and its two girdles ability to counter rotate each other in gait cycle, the loading, unloading, reloading sensation emerges. I also like the imagery that rubber bands are connecting the two girdles, upper to opposing lower on both sides, so that when walking there is a sensation of one band shortening bringing shoulder and hip closer while the other is lengthening.

With the client supine I start with 3d breathing. Then I place his feet into my thighs as I stand at the end of table, as connected to the earth in standing. Guiding the client to allow one shin to float towards sky while allowing the other Gastroc to be heavy towards the table. Essentially flexing one knee and extending the other slightly, guiding him as if he were walking. Imagine walking through ankle high water then up to knees and pelvis, cultivating a relationship to LDH (both sides) 30 min.

Advanced Rolfing & Rolf yoga 5 min. Walking exploration of relationship of heaven to earth with him being the cream filling (weight/volume) 5 min. Vestibular-oculo-cervical reflex 20 min. He had impressive results and a fun experience, also relief from back and shoulder pain. Buoyancy! He could not believe that he felt "as if" he had received the same results from manipulative sessions.

Impression-weight, plantar surface stimulation, shape, volume, inside/outside

Expression-3d breathing with impression, fixed diaphragm inhibits expression.

Coordination-inhibiting inhibition, cueing with one posterior leg heavy the other anterior leg floating, and imagery of walking through different degrees of water depths.

Chiropractic, Physical Therapy, or Massage Therapy are not substitutes for an Advanced Rolfing Fort Worth Ten Series.

John Barton | Certified Advanced Rolfer ® & Rolfing ® Fort Worth-Dallas | Certified Rolf Movement ® Practitioner

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Advanced Rolfing Fort Worth Dallas and Rolf movement have become an integral part of what Rolfing is, for the simple fact that to fully enable a more integrated being, something must enable the integration of mind/body. Rolfing is about relationships; therefore, structure and function must be congruent and dimensional for the full potential available in each of us to emerge. Rolf Movement provides a strategy that a Rolfer uses to navigate towards achieving biomechanical goals and integration. All movement is a product of the nervous system and the connective tissue matrix; the autonomic nervous system is the biodynamic dance between the parasympathetic/sympathetic branches or "fight or flight" reflexes. Conventional phenomenal data begins at the quantum level then abstracts, or filters, into sensation, e-motion, belief, and then finally into activation or expression. Rolf Movement works within the relationship between the tenets of gravity/structure, coordination/pre-movement, impression/perception, and expression/meaning, known as The Tonic Function Model, to approach and evoke more desirable and efficient movement through sensation. Elements of somatic patterning and the potential to enhance performance and form has always been a resource to athletes when articulating full expression, as well as obvious sport specific benefits.

How you think is how you move, and how you breathe is how you live. Movement manifests from a pre-movement or an automatic override response, which is an organic compound of a collective body of experiences acquired throughout life. From the moment of conception, a human being is shaped and formed from a genetic code that has been further conditioned by a conscious/sub-conscious overlay. Consciousness and subconscious overlays are the sum of object relations or relationship to "other," and this subject-object relationship fosters the subsequent emergence of the deeper dualities that drive our structure and function. As a result of our relationship with our environment and primary care giver, our original perceptions were birthed that would form the way we would move in the world. Corticalized movement is that which is done consciously or voluntarily; sub-cortical movement is sub-conscious, or involuntarily. Ironically, the first physiological structure to form in embryo is the primitive streak that quickly evolves into the central nervous system, the heart then mushrooms out of brain and digresses to its known position where the respiratory diaphragm emerges and resources to form the fascial matrix of the body. The fascial matrix is what gives the body its structural and functional orientation of space in gravity. So, the primary contributors of a sustaining life force manifest first; energy, breath, blood, or thought, word, action. Therefore, as the being grows and is conditioned in thought or perception, he or she is subsequently being conditioned to move or express because of the role of the autonomic division of the peripheral nervous system, hence, as a man thinketh so is he.

Everyone breathing has experienced some situation or environment that has either caused them to breathe rapidly or hold their breath. This impulse comes from the way you perceive the environment, and this perception is based on a collective body of experience that has already calculated and decided for you in advance of what you would do in this type of situation. Again, this is based on the primary dualism of a subject-object relationship in which certain somatic preferences were adhered to and compounded into consciousness that is sensory activated. This is why just thinking about someone can either cause a calm, pleasant response, or an anxious, negative reaction, or walking into unfamiliar territory causes reason for processing if the environment is threatening. This constancy is a necessity for survival and is part of a feedback loop reflex of the nervous system. (What might not be necessary is the specific respon