SOME BOOKS ON ROLFING
- Ida Rolf Talks about Rolfing and Physical Reality. Edited by Rosemary Feitis. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
- Don Johnson, The Protean Body. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.
- Ida P. Rolf, Ph.D. Rolfing: The Integration of Human Structures. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.
- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, The Book of the Secrets-I (New York: Harper & Row, 1974), p. 211.
- The words Rolfing and Rolfer are service marks of the Rolf Institute of Structured Integration. Rolfers are trained and certified by the Rolf Institute and become members of the Institute upon certification.
- From an advertisement.
- Dr. Ida P. Rolf (1896–1979) was an organic chemist with the Rockefeller Institute who developed the technique of Structural Integration over many years before establishing a systemic training program and a professional organization.
- Anatomically, there is no actual vertical axis; the body's center cannot be identified as the spine or any intrinsic structure. Yet the concept of an axis is valid because it helps us to comprehend function.