Andrew Rosenstock - "Rolfing, Integration and Somatics"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Andrew Rosenstock, host of the Touching Into Presence Podcast, talks with J about Rolfing and other forms of mind/body therapies. They discuss the history of the Rolfing modality, what goes into being “rolfed,” Andrew’s viewpoint on different aspects of both technique and philosophy, parallels between structural integration and yoga therapy, Rolf movement, gait analysis, holism in assessment and application, what can actually be done to a structure and why, and the somatic exploration at the heart of facilitating awareness and health.

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0:00.0	All right, we're on. You are wherever it is that you are. I am here. And you listening has now bridged those two moments in time and space.
0:26.5	It's a beautiful thing. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. I'm grateful
0:34.3	to you, whoever you are, whether you're a new person, if so welcome, or maybe you're someone who's been around, a returning friend.
0:44.8	What's up with you all? How are you doing? Are you doing okay?
0:50.2	I know that is an extremely loaded question these days.
0:55.9	And I have to be frank with you.
0:59.3	I'm not doing well at all.
1:04.0	I ran into a wall yesterday, like a brick wall, it seemed.
1:11.4	It feels like this year is, I don't know,
1:18.3	coming to a close and I don't know how to even say it.
1:23.0	You know what comes to mind,
1:24.5	I'll share with you a moment from my life.
1:31.1	You see, when I started in high school,
1:38.7	I believe it was ninth grade. I started in high school in ninth grade. I was already a, like,
1:44.9	theater geek. I was somebody who was like in school plays and like did theater competitions and stuff. But my freshman year of college, I was somebody who was like in school plays and like did theater competitions and stuff.
1:49.8	But my freshman year of college, I ran track.
1:55.4	And I basically ran 440 hurdles.
1:58.3	I don't know if you guys know 440 hurdles.
2:01.2	You run runs around the track and you got to jump these hurdles.
2:10.2	And I wasn't bad, but I wasn't great. And in all the races that I had run for the year, I had consistently come in forth. So I wasn't last. I was like in the middle of the pack, but if you don't place in the top three, you don't earn any points towards getting a letterman jacket.
2:26.0	So I was never really earning any points to lettering. I knew I wasn't even going to do it more than one year.
2:32.6	But then this thing happened at the end of the season.
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