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Ida P. Rolf |
Ida Rolf, born in 1896 in New York, was one of the first women in the US to earn a Ph.D. Her chosen fields of study were biochemistry and physiology. Based on her education and her practical work with people, she developed her own method for addressing physical and psychological problems having their source in a less than optimal physical structure of the human body. For this reason Dr. Rolf called her method Postural Integration or Structural Integration though later the abbreviated Rolfing became the prominent name for the work. Today you'll find many practitioners offering some form of structural bodywork which seek to copy aspects of Dr. Rolf's work. Rolfing is the original. Like Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt Therapy, Ida Rolf taught her method of improving the body and relatedly the whole person at the Esalen Institute in California. Rolfing took off from there, and in the early 1970s she founded the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration in Boulder, Colorado. There she taught Rolfing Structural Integration, predominantly only to men due to the intensive physical nature of the work, until her death in 1979. |
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