On Scar Tissue
While I do believe the best way to learn how to work with scar tissue is to have someone show you how to do it, perhaps something written will indicate the path well enough for some of you become curious and start experimenting.
Some orientation might be useful, so I will start with the story of the first scar.
Blue Lu and the White Witch, A Memoir of New Orleans
The year is about 1986, and it all centers on a wonderful Southern gentleman named Al Rose. I will relate a few of the highlights I remember of Al, my time in New Orleans, and how I came to rolf a legend of Jazz.
Rolfing Stories, Legends and Lore
In the late 1960’s, I audited and practitioned with Dr. Rolf at the River-house in Big Sur, after which I took the first Aston Patterning/Rolf Movement class with Judith Aston at Esalen. In 1972, I took a second practitioners class with Dr. Rolf at the Adams house at Esalen and in 1978, I audited with Michael Salveson in Berkley. Finally, in 1979 I took the Advanced Class with Dr. Rolf in Philadelphia. Today I maintain a practice in Structural Integration in Port Orchard, Washington and also teach continuing education classes for Structural Integrators.
The Boy from Bolinas
In the summer of 1972 my family became close friends with a family from Bolinas, California. They lived in a small house near the ocean that somehow fit all six children and the ensuing chaos.
They were fine friends, brilliant and singular. We shared many of our interests with them in those years. We had more fun playing with everyone in George Simon’s Community for Conscious Evolution in Pacifica and Half Moon Bay, and of course, there was Esalen and our friends there with the endless baths, great food, and always something new and interesting happening. We also introduced them to Rolfing. After I had finished working on the mom, she said to me that she knew just the kid for me to start on out of her six; her youngest, the four year old, who had a “gimpy” leg.