Rolfing Associates

13/10/2025

The University of California made history this week, as its faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes across medicine, physics and chemistry — the most ever awarded to a single institution in one year.

13/10/2025

Great information!

The University of California made history this week, as its faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes across medicine, physics and chemistry — the most ever awarded to a single institution in one year.

23/08/2023

09/03/2023

Please understand what NOT using cash is doing. Why should we pay with cash instead of a card?
- Imagine I have a $50 bill in my pocket. I go to a restaurant and pay for dinner with it. The restaurant owner then uses the bill to pay for the laundry, the laundry owner then uses the bill to pay his barber and the barber uses the bill for shopping. After an unlimited number of payments, it will still remain $50, which has fulfilled its purpose to everyone who used it for payment and the bank is left dry from every cash payment transaction made...
- But if I go to a restaurant and pay digitally - with a card, the bank fees for my payment transaction charged to the seller are 3%, so around $1.50 and the same $1.50 fee charged for each further payment transaction afterwards (owner to laundry shop, barber etc.) Therefore, after 30 transactions, the initial $50 will remain only $5 and the remaining $45 became the property of the bank thanks to all the digital transactions and fees.
When this is put into perspective, imagine what each retailer is paying on a monthly basis in fees at 3% per transaction through their machines. If they have, for example, $50,000 in sales & 90% are by Card, they are paying $1500 in fees in ONE Month. $18,000 in a year.

Especially use cash when paying at local restaurants, manicurist, landscapers, locally owned gas stations, barber shops, small business owners, etc. They rarely charge a card processing fee, yet they pay high fees to the card companies.

Saw this, had to post it, and would love to know your reaction! Makes sense to me!

31/12/2022

27/11/2022

Many of you have seen the post my daughter sent of Frank Wu's transition, September 13, 2022. His page has been memorialised, which gives details of his life history. Feel free to connect with him through his page, which my daughter manages:https://www.facebook.com/frank.wu.3910. He was in the first foundations of bodywork class that the Rolf Institute offered. His counseling and industrial arts background made an exceptionally talented and sucessful Rolfer.

17/11/2022

Conventional wisdom is that you cut back the seedheads of everything in the autumn. Please consider leaving them be until the first signs of growth in the spring. The seedheads are invaluable winter / early spring food for birds and we need to maintain the cultural memory of birds which can be lost very quickly - as easily as it can in humans. All of those things that you may not see as being ‘pretty ‘such as docks and plantains and wild grasses, etc . These are invaluable to birds and many small mammals and by leaving the dead stems standing over winter, you are also protecting an important part of the life-cycle of many larvae and insects where they find refuge. It will fill your heart with joy to see all the life bouncing around your patch of earth, so much more rewarding than a neat and tidy space. Also please leave the leaves where they fall. Again, this is vitally important for nutrient recycling, larvae, lifecycles, foraging and habitat for many mammals, insects, fungi, bacteria and on and on and on. Our need for tidying is part of an old world. We need to embrace the wildness without and within in every patch of this earth that we can. Let it be.