Rolfing helps redefine your relationship with gravity.
“This is the gospel of Rolfing:
When the body gets working appropriately,
the force of gravity can flow through.
Then, spontaneously, the body heals itself.” -Dr. Ida P. Rolf
What If you didn’t have to battle gravity to hold yourself up—what could you do with all that potential?
Manual therapy and movement education based in connecting the whole.
Rolfing Structural Integration strives to align and balance the body’s components so the entire system can function as a smooth and coordinated whole.
It is a form of bodywork that reorganizes connective tissue, called fascia, that covers our entire bodies. Rolfers manipulate this soft tissue and offer new pattern options through manual therapy and movement education.
To explore a new pattern (movement or postural) we must have both the physical freedom and the mental willingness to integrate the change!
More than fifty years ago Dr. Ida P. Rolf started practicing this wholistic manual therapy to answer the question: "What conditions must be fulfilled in order for the human body-structure to be organized and integrated in gravity so that the whole person can function in the most optimal and economical way?"
Exploring as one body-mind
Rolfers recognize that the experience of the mind and body are not separate, we experience the world as an integrated whole system. How the body-mind functions is based on past experiences, our perceptions, how we move, and our physical structure.
How these factors interact effects our person—our physical patterns, how we think, how we interact with other people and how we interact with our environments to name only a few.
In physical terms we look at the body as a whole or ”your knee bone is connected to your thigh bone.”
In perhaps more abstraction: Everything is connected. Everything effects everything else.
This work offers the almost boundless exploration of new possibilities and the compassionate recognition of our limitations.
The Map is Not the Territory
-Dr. Alfred Korzybski quoted by Dr. Ida P. Rolf