more about the Tuning Board and rolfing s.I.
“I use my Tuning Board often with clients as a tool to promote integration. It improves their intrinsic responsiveness, awareness, connectedness, and motility. I’ve found it especially useful before and after sessions focused on support.”
Free online information is available to show you the basics.
Webinars, Q & A’s and Trainings are available to deepen your ability to use it Well.
The Tuning Board will help your clients by….
Promoting the alignment of the feet, ankles, knees and hips in the vertical posture;
Increasing the mobility and fluidity of the spine;
Improving grounding by increasing the responsiveness of feet, ankles and lower legs;
Encouraging the flow of movement and energy throughout the body;
The engraved directional design on top aids in spatial orienting exercises;
Excellent tool for improving weight distribution;
Promotes balance in structural integration, biomechanical and fitness training;
Centering and grounding are interwoven with movement;
The experience is that of a continual gentle dance with gravity.
Rolfers who participated in research on the Tuning Board reported that clients they worked with:
Became more flexible or resilient;
Felt that their sensory awareness increased;
Experienced an improved sense of confidence;
Exhibited spontaneous unconscious expressions of movement;
Became better able to cope with stress;
Became better able to cope with uncertainty;
Experienced a positive effect on the imagination;
Improved their abilities to self calm when anxious;
Read also "Dancing with Gravity: Using the Tuning Board to Promote vertical embodiment Resources and Vertical Integration"…
…an article by Darrell Sanchez, Ph.D. and Vivian Gettliffe published in the 2016 IASI Yearbook of Structural Integration
And "The Tuning Board"…
… an article by Darrell Sanchez, Ph.D. published in Structural Integration: the Journal of the Rolf Institute, Boulder, Colorado; June, 2004.
