Rolfing® aka Structural Integration was created by one woman, Ida Rolf in the mid-1940s with the goal of helping family members who were suffering in pain. She also had been injured from being kicked by a horse which led her to search for answers. Early Rolfing® was extremely painful (yes like screaming at the top […]
History of Massage
Ida Pauline Rolf, PhD : The recipe, her life and legacy. Pluck and grit.
Ida Pauline Rolf, PhD (1896–1979) – The Woman, The Researcher and Bodyworker extradonaire: Where did the The Line and The Recipe come from? 1896 – Born in NYC and raised there in public schools in the Bronx. 1916 – Graduated from Barnard College (article on her class and grad photo), with honors in Chemistry and […]
Aston Kinetics
Aston Kinetics is not a type of massage but does include some massage/hands on techniques to go along with the movement system. The idea is that the body is not symetrical and Aston Kinetics works to gather info from a client’s history and they way they move to create a plan to help them to […]
Timeline History of Pain Theories
The term for pain appeared for the first time in the ancient medical book Huang Di Nei Jing (Book on amazon.com) more than 3000 years ago, translated into English as The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine by Veith in 1966 and The Medical Classic of the Yellow Emperor by Zhu in 2001. Pain was […]
History of Reflexology
6000 BC–3000 BC – Zoku Shin Do is the oldest known form of reflexology. Zoko Shin Do originated in China. 2330 B.C – Tomb of Ankhmahor (highest official after the Pharaoh) at Saqqara, which is also known as the physicians tomb supposedly shows images of foot massage. The painting of Akhmahor, an Egyptian priest was […]