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Audio Files and Transcripts From Classes with Dr. Rolf Big Sur Lecture/Demo |
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Ida Rolf Audio Tape Transcription AUDIO FILE Tape B5 Side 2 MP3 File (aprox. 11MB) TRANSCRIPT (0:05) We need some sort of a Xerox that we can look at to get greater reality on this, because what you see in these books is not that good. (0:10 student) I wonder what you could do if there are always good photographers here, is make a set of 35 mm slides. (0:25) Yes, you can but somebody. First you have to get the whole list of on page so and so, we want that…Well we’ve tried it, we have started this at least 6 times, Mack, and never has it lasted beyond 2 hours of work on anybody’s part. You see, it needs consistent thoughtful selection. (0:48 student) I’ll take the photographs if someone will find the materials. (0:54 student) Sure… (1:14) You take it with a negative and preserve the negative. … (1:45) Various people have been assigned the job of…. As we went through these books I would say, “Now on such and such a book on such and such a page, we want this photograph.” And where are those lists now?… (2:10) Let's stay in the here and now. OK, now, I don’t know a thing about this, all I know is what I read in the paper. But I do know that there is an old yoga technique, which includes the use of rectal dilators to control many symptoms. To control headaches particularly, the kind of headache you get after a day of shopping, etc., etc., control spasm of the digestion system, to control heart rate, and breath rate by putting a rectal dilator into that anus, and there is no other explanation for what happens, except that you are changing the position, and perhaps putting pressure on that Ganglion of Impar, and that suddenly you don’t have a headache anymore. (3:32) Now obviously if you have that Ganglion of Impar and that coccyx to a place where they just automatically take their place in life, and change with the changing demand made on them, you don’t need rectal dilators. Also, obviously, if you get a coccyx as chronically unhappy as Don’s was yesterday, maybe even a rectal dilator is not going to do that particular job. Maybe you have a degree of strain, continuous chronic strain on the nervous system, which is not showing up as he goes for a doctor; for a check up on his blood pressure, etc. etc. etc. etc. (4:44) But my point is, we are dealing with the coarser material of the fascial body. It is not our business to even give serious consideration to dealing with nervous plexi. This is getting into something that’s for the big boys. You know we’re not that big. We just deal with fascia. We just do with it what they can’t do. (5:17) It’s too trite but this is what happens, and you see if you get this as a consideration in the back of your mind, again you start changing your whole philosophic background, and what is a man and how does he work. (5:46) And so as you see, and at this point I’m talking to you people who came through osteopathy and through chiropractic, this local deal isn’t going to do the job! And all of you, I mean this is what we’ve been spending hours demonstrating; how you play with somebody’s little toe, and it does something up on his occiput or something. And so if this is your goal, to make more adequate humans, you have got to see this picture of this man built around a line. And that’s all it is. It’s not around a gut, it’s not around a spine, it’s around a line: a relationship, because the line tells you mathematically about the relationship. (6:56) Actually, yesterday we talked about the fact that the 6th hour is basically an hour in which we give consideration to – and by consideration I mean this kind of consideration – to the rotators; and we try and get those 5 rotators all coming along, getting themselves on a level where they can work together and live together and act as a group, which in most instances they can’t. Some one or some two of those things will be deteriorated, and they drag everything with them. And the rotators are of this degree of importance because they are the only group, and there is only one member of that group really, that fits in what I’m saying. Two others maybe. They are the only structures in the body where you can put your finger on the outside and the other end of your finger, so to speak, goes onto the basic, basic inside; the lining of the sacrum. There is no other muscle that you can get hold of in these hot little hands where you can do this. (8:26) And so, therefore, the lowest part of that spinal structure, (a basic part of the pelvic structure), you can directly influence through those rotators, and this is literally a gift of God; pure velvet. You had no business to expect it. But you can do it, and in doing it, you see, you organize the sacrum and necessarily the coccyx, because whatever you do to the sacrum is going to be reflected into the coccyx. Whatever you do to the coccyx is going to be reflected into the sacrum. (9:13) Now, you do not get a hold of a coccyx and drag it around. You stretch fascial materials that determine the position of that coccyx. It’s the same old story. You do not get a hold of a bone and by force do something with it. (9:46 student) Do you ever work around the coccyx before you work on the rotators? Yesterday, Don’s coccyx got much worse as we worked on the rotators because I think the sacrum came back and I think the coccyx dove more. (10:02) Oh, ever is a long time. And I realize that when I pontificate about, “You always do so and so,” half an hour after I’m looking at myself and saying, “I thought I heard you say to never do this.” (10:20 student) …And you said by stretching a bone or stretching a coccyx it does not increase the length. That this is by fascial tissue is very definite. It will grow in the lines of stress, and become stronger in the lines of stress. If you pull on the bone it will orient itself toward the lines of stress and become tighter. A strong reaction. (10:40) Yeah. But I don’t know, it’s part of the whole concept of this particular dip that we’re fretting out here. That we deal with soft tissue, not with bone. The bone deals with itself. (10:54 student) I wasn’t referring specifically that to the [cure that from the coccyx], it would mean increasing the techniques of the fascia body orienting the cells or fibers in that direction. And this is what happens to any fascial tissue, is it orients in the direction it’s stressed. (11:12) Yes. There is very little question about that. But, have I answered your question? (11:20 student) I think so. I was just thinking that, it seems to me there could be times when you might want to run the coccyx before you went to the rotators. (11:25) There will be times, alright. This doesn’t make me mad that you should think that. It’s one of the knife-edges that I never have been able to really cross consciously. I walk across these, I hop skip and jump across these, and somehow I get across, but I never really know how. (11:57) This whole business of getting a precision approach that always works, I don’t believe there is a precision approach that always works. But in order for you people to learn from zero, you have to learn on the assumption that there is a precision approach and as you get much more experienced you learn that you change the approach. But the problem comes when you have done 2 hours of work and your ego says, “Oh well, after all, I know more than she does, let me try it this way.” And then you try it that way 6 times, and you’ve forgotten that she said, “You go this way.” And so you’ve forgotten the path that will lead you, and you keep going down another path, and you don’t get the result. And as I say I find myself on a knife-edge, which is very hard for me to negotiate.
(12:56) I will guarantee that if you follow The Recipe, you will get the result: the cake will come out all right. But that you always have to do only that recipe, this is not factual, only I reckon that you should stay with the recipe! Period. For a long time to come; for a year. Two years. And then if you want to play around all right, but if you play around early you just loose your vision that comes from the repetitive performance of a certain pattern. (13:28 student) Peter was just talking to me about that…he said that he’s followed The Recipe consistently for 2 years and just now begin to go off…where he can see it. (13:37) That’s right, and this is one of the things that makes Peter such an outstandingly good performer. He has been willing to sit back and see what he could do with that recipe. And very rapidly, the intuition is getting into his hands and he’ll be hearing about it. But you see that, even I, every so and so often, get real smart. And somebody comes in and they so obviously have some strain that’s right at that point, and I know I can do it. I’m going to show off this time. And I go in there, but 3 hours later I look at the guy and something hasn’t been done. And it hasn’t been done because I haven’t followed The Recipe. (14:24) I was talking to Rosemary on the phone last night…and Rosemary was saying “I’m going to start on my 10th hours tomorrow, and I’m going to need all my karma,” and I say, “Yeah, you bet you are!” and this is statement of fact in the matter. She is going to need every god darn thing that she has forgotten to do before she can get that 10th hour organized. And it’s much simpler to follow The Recipe. Because then you know that you haven’t really skipped something. You may have overlooked it by virtue of an improper seeing, but you haven’t really skipped it. It will be there; it will be available. (15:14) OK, let’s do something or other. 20 after 10. What kind of an internal clock is this? [End] |
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