Rob’s Blog
Scar Tissue and Rolfing® Structural Integration
Re-conceive Your Feet!
How do we express ourselves through our feet? We think of dancers being very connected to their feet-to the expression of energy and rhythm, and shape, spatial positioning. But all who walk upright live from the ground up, in how we relate to the earth, and how we support our spines, heads, and dreams. Feet […]
How Rolfing® Works, for Me-Part 3
How have I made the transition from dancer to healer? I am finding more and more that I utilize the skills and sensitivity developed over decades of work as a professional performing artist. Dance is not just dexterity and strength combined-it can hone our perceptions and how to act on them. Good dancers develop not […]
Rolfing® Structural Integration Feels Good!
One of the most surprising things for clients on the table: “this feels amazing!” When your body opens up, you feel pleasure! This rush of pleasure is like a reward to the nervous system, and is a big part of what makes the work ‘sustainable’. Why? I am not %100 sure, but I have ideas […]
Why I Got Foot Surgery
Why I Got Surgery: Hallux Rigidus and Functional Hallux Limitus By Robert McWilliams, Certified Advanced Rolfer™, Rolf Movement® Practitioner Pre-surgery notes My reason for describing Hallux Rigidus, and functional Hallux Limitus, is so that practitioners who have no knowledge of these conditions can perhaps recognize budding symptoms, and perhaps discover and […]
Strong and Free Shoulders
One of the things I do for me on a weekly basis is work – or ‘work out’, or ‘play’ – in a dance studio in Boulder. I often end up exploring a particular principal of body movement. It’s a habit from teaching dance ( which I hope to be doing again in addition to […]
In difficult times, we need support.
In these times, we need Support. Not soothing evasion or more unreality… Support-to the unconscious basis of perception, the body- and empowerment, to be able to act with compassion and consciousness in the world. Rolfing® Structural Integration and Rolf Movement® work are dedicated to the goals of healing, empowerment and integration-not just relaxation.
How Can Rolfing Help With Bad knee? Take heed
Note: I work with knee issues all the time. Often a knee problem can be resolved in 3 sessions! While the article below is a bit over detailed, I hope you get the idea that I enjoy working with the legs and feet! I’ve been working lately with a string of people with really bad […]
Embodiment
’Embodiment’ goes beyond physical skill to sensing, presence, enjoyment, connection with self, other, environment and body wisdom. I remember stepping onstage once at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and having a moment to take a breath, feeling my feet relax into the ground and my head release skyward. Afterwards, I was […]
Sustainability and Rolfing® Structural Integration
The world faces an energy crisis: an exploding world population; increasing demand for electricity and automobiles, and dwindling, noxious fossil fuel resources. Aside from developing renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, energy savings through conservation and efficiency measures could be a key part of the solution. Systems can be analyzed, streamlined and improved. This […]
Comment on the Idea of Integration
At the end of almost every session I tell people to take a walk to help further integrate the work. I am specific ‘letting the hands and arms free, no iPhone, no leash, walking at a leisurely pace ( no more than 100 beats/minute.’ I usually exhort people to ‘let your hips be hips, ankles […]
Success Story
A client who’d had multiple injuries related to a horrendous motorcycle accident a few years ago was told that she had two options: surgery with a 33% of feeling better ( and 66% chance of feeling worse after) or being on pain medication for life. She cried a long time after getting that news. Fortunately […]