Ida P. Rolf

Rolfing: Reestablishing the Natural Alignment and Structural Integration of the Human Body for Vitality and Well-Being

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rolfing has helped thousands of people to look better, move with greater ease, and enjoy vitality and well-being. This classic text, with more than 600 illustrations and photographs, continues to be the most important reference for Rolfers around the world, and will also appeal to other professional bodyworkers and the layperson.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
• Healing Arts Pr
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 217mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780892813353
• ISBN-10: 0892813350
• Artikelnr.: 21303575

Autorenporträt

Ida P. Rolf received her Ph.D. in biochemistry and physiology from Columbia University in 1920, and subsequently worked at the Rockefeller Institute in chemotherapy and organic chemistry. She is the founder of the Rolf Institute in Boulder, Colorado. She is also the author of Rolfing and Physical Reality.

Inhaltsangabe

Rolfing
Reestablishing the Natural Alignment and Structural Integration of the
Human Body for Vitality and Well-Being
Foreword
Preface
1 Twentieth-Century Monism
2 Roadmap to Structure
3 Fascia-Organ of Support
4 Feet: The First Challenge
5 In a Balanced Body, When Flexors Flex, Extensors Extend
6 The Seat of the Soul is Physiological
7 Your Psoas
8 The Pelvis Has Many Faces
9 The Joint that Determines Symmetry
10 Function is Movement
11 The Function of a Normal Erect Spine is to Distribute Weight
12 Function as a Relationship
13 The Bipolar Unit
14 The Upper Movement System
15 The Vertical Thrust
16 The Upper Pole
17 Many People Refer to This Drama as Pain
18 Evolution is the Expression of Internal Events
Index