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Meet
Ray My background is in music education and history. I am a Magna cum Laude graduate of Rhode Island College and attended New England Conservatory my freshman year. I received a masters in musicology from Indiana University in 1979 and completed my graduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I received my Ph.D. in 1987. After a few unpleasant years looking for a teaching position, I moved to Atlanta to work as the training director at Harry's Farmers Market, a local upscale grocery store chain. Realizing that middle level management was not my fort�, I decided that Rolfing, for which I had long felt a strong affinity, would be an interesting and fulfilling career. I finished my basic certification in March 1995 and, soon after, completed my movement certification with Vivian Jaye. Since that time, I have taken several classes, including a mentoring project with Les Kertay who taught me more subtle integrative techniques which were at one time a part of our advanced training. I have studied repetitive motion injuries with Jim Asher and Siana Goodwin; osteopathic technique with Peter Schwind (who helped revise my second Sonata article mentioned below); craniosacral therapy with Jane Harrington; completed a mentoring project with Les Kertay; undertaken a human dissection in a class with former Rolfer Gil Hedley; and completed classes advanced spinal and neck techniques with Liz Gaggini and Ray McCall and visceral technique for Rolfers with Liz Gaggini. I did my advanced training with Jan Sultan and Sally Klemm late in 2000 and recently completed a basic visceral manipulation class with Liz Gaggini. I also do volunteer Rolfing work with children and teach anatomy locally. I am currently studying osteopathy theory and technique and integrating these modalities in my Rolfing practice.
My style
of Rolfing is a blend of several approaches, since, for me, Rolfing is
more a mode of inquiry than a rigidly predetermined sequence of soft tissue
release and balancing techniques (the textbook ten series described elsewhere).
In my work, I use traditional Rolfing techniques as well as craniosacral,
visceral, energetic manipulation, musical imagery and metaphor, Reiki,
and Rolfing movement, all of which are securely grounded in principles
of Rolf's model. My intention is to use this website as an information
resource for those interested in non-traditional aspects of body work
and to present my constantly evolving ideas about this challenging and
poorly understood discipline I so passionately love.
For information on other Rolfers in the Atlanta area, please visit www.rolf.org. You can also email Libby Eason at libbyeason@aol.com for assistance in locating a practitioner. Home | Meet Ray | Self Help | Articles | Contact Ray | Rolfing�� FAQ | Bibliography |
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I
was first introduced
to Rolfing� in 1970 by a close friend who had been injured in a touch football
game. After months of unsuccessful allopathic treatment, he went to a
Rolfer and in three sessions, his debilitating back pain was gone, never
to return. I had been injured as a result of some freshman dorm room rough-housing
and was left with nerve damage and serious shoulder pain. Since the doctors
I saw offered me little hope and predicted a life of arthritis and loss
of function, I was willing to try anything. Ultimately, Rolfing relieved
my discomfort and made a profound difference in the quality of my life.
Over the next several years, I continued to receive treatments including
some amazing movement work with Judith Roberts in Chapel Hill.
Early
in my training I recognized certain sensitivities that I wished to develop
and research. Working on these aptitudes and other topics, not strictly
in the Rolfing mainstream, has occupied a great deal of my time since
graduation. I have published several articles on form in Rolfing and music
in Rolf Lines, the international magazine for certified Rolfers. Through
these articles, I have been able to integrate the two disciplines I most
love, structural integration and music. I have also written articles on
the use of smell as a diagnostic in body work, synesthesia and the science
of human energy fields as well as several short Rolfing theory and information
articles which have appeared in local alternate publications. A former
client and author, Mae Barrena, wrote three articles about me, one of which
appeared in a recent issue of 
