What is Rolfing®?

Named after its founder. Ida P. Rolf, Rolfing® Structural Integration is a form of hands-on bodywork and movement education that reorganizes and balances the body by lengthening and repositioning the connective tissues, called fascia, that permeate the entire body.

Rolfers™ recognize that the body is inherently a system of seamless networks of tissues rather than a collection of separate parts. These connective tissues surround, support, and penetrate all the muscles, bones, organs, and nerves. Rolfers™ manipulate this web-like system of connective tissues to release, realign and balance the whole body, thus potentially resolving discomfort, reducing compensations and alleviating pain. Rolfing® restores the body to a balanced state that allows you to be more comfortable moving in your daily life. 

BENEFITS OF ROLFING®

  • Resolves chronic pain and tension

  • Greater resilience and flexibility in body

  • Improves athletic performance

  • Improves Posture

  • Promotes freedom, ease, and depth in breathing

  • Relieves joint pain

  • Assists with recovery from injury and surgery

  • Increases flexibility and range of motion

  • Enhances body awareness

  • Increases energy

  • May release trauma stored in the body

  • Allows you to feel better in your body

Human bodies are incredibly resilient. Your tissues literally change their shape to accommodate your daily activities, movement patterns, and the injuries you’ve sustained over a lifetime. As your body adapts to these forces, your connective tissues can get pretty lopsided. As one area shortens, then another area lengthens to compensate….. ultimately losing elasticity. These compensatory patterns can exhaust your body, put strain on your joints, and cause pain.

Imagine a sweater: It’s essentially one long piece of wool woven together. If you have a snag in the sweater, the whole structure changes. The snag could be down at the hip, but the pulled strings can create a change in the body of the sweater or even all the way up at the shoulder. Even though the shoulder looks funny, the only way to bring the sweater back to it’s original shape is to re balance the strings from the shoulder all the way down to the hip…and then fix the original snag at the hip.

Our bodies are the similar. The pain we experience is often calling attention to a pull somewhere else in our fascial net. Working on tissues that hurt is important but won’t solve the problem. Rolfers explore the connections between different areas in the body that are affecting each other and are able to unwind the tissue patterns that are causing problems. This creates lasting change in the body.