Structural integration—developments in Ida Rolf's ‘recipe’—Part 3. An alternative form

Structural Integration (SI), known popularly as ‘rolfing’,11Capital R ‘Rolfing®’ and ‘Rolfer®’ are registered service marks of the Rolf Institute®, one of more than a dozen schools of Structural Integration. Therefore, ‘Structural Integration’, Dr. Rolf's original name for her work, is becoming the generic designation for this type of manipulative approach. The word ‘rolfing’—a nickname for her work which came from her time in the Esalen Institute in California, and a name she herself disliked and only reluctantly accepted—remains, for the time being, the more publicly known term for this type of work. is a systematic programme of connective tissue manipulation. Parts 1 and 2 of this series defined the scope of SI practice, and presented a general outline of Dr. Rolf's multi-session protocol of the SI ‘Recipe’. In this final part we present an alternate version based on longitudinal myofascial continuities.