FROM ROLFER TO RESEARCHER

摘要

Robert Schleip remembers the moment he became a "born-again scientist ." For 13 years, he had been teaching Rolfing—a technique that involves rubbing and stretching a bodywide network of soft connective tissue known as fascia—when he began to question his lesson plans. "I found there was a pseudoscientific mentality behind what I was doing," says Schleip, who in 1978 became Germany's first licensed Rolfer. "I thought, 'I'd better check this stuff out.' "