What is Rolfing?
Rolfing is a specialized type of manual therapy or bodywork that aims to bring the client's structure into effortless physical alignment. Rolfing excels at releasing patterns of tension and creating easeful movements in the body. With these changes, a higher functioning and a lasting pain-relief comes to the body.
Often through Rolfing, clients find the potential for lasting and transformative changes comes from within their own body. Rolfing is a way to uncover this potential and help clients to integrate this potential into their daily lives.
Rolfing is a process of release, re-alignment and re-integration of the body and nervous system.
Our Bodies
Our bodies encase and reflect our life experiences by absorbing them in our connective tissue. Trauma that occurred in our birth, childhood injuries, car accidents, surgeries and emotional scarring can all live with us in our connective tissue. This tissue can become shortened and stuck causing stiffness and pain. The body will then adapt to these shortenings in other places, leading to problems in posture and movement. Our bones and our posture are the way they are because the fascia holds and shapes them.
How Rolfing Works
A variety of highly skilled touch ranging from deep and firm to subtle and gentle. Rolfing works on lengthening the connective tissues of the muscles and calming the nervous system. The aim of this work is to unwind and release held patterns and injuries.
Research has demonstrated that Rolfing results in more efficient muscle use, allows the body to conserve energy and create more optimal movement patterns. Rolfing has also been shown to significantly reduce chronic stress, reduce spinal curvature, and enhance neurological functioning. Rolfing is used by many professional athletes, dancers and entertainers to improve performance.