Rolfing

relieve pain, enhance performance, improve posture

What is Rolfing?

Rolfing is a process of soft tissue manipulation designed to balance your body by releasing tension & strain. Rolfing moves beyond symptomatic relief, focusing on whole body alignment for sustainable change.

Rolfing understands the body as a seamless network of tissues rather than a collection of separate parts. These connective tissues, or "fascia," surround, support and penetrate all the muscles, bones, nerves, and organs. Rolfing works on this web-like complex of connective tissue to release, realign, and balance the whole body creating sustainable ease and comfort. Rolfers educate their clients to recognize detrimental movement patterns. They work with the client to suggest and explore new ways of moving, standing and sitting which integrate the structural benefits of Rolfing into your daily life.

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Relieve Chronic Pain with Rolfing

By focusing on total body alignment, Rolfing moves beyond symptom-based pain relief to create sustainable change and ease in the body. Acute and chronic pain is often a symptom of larger structural patterns and compensations located elsewhere in the body. This is why even after stretching, massaging, or resting the painful area the pain returns.
 
By working to align the entire body, Rolfing relieves pain by addressing the source of the pain.

Relieve Nerve Pain with Rolfing

When nerves become inflamed the swelling shortens their range of motion. Mobility is further limited when nerves become tethered in nearby tissues. A chronically pinched nerve can send pain responses beyond the source of the pain in the body. Rolfing reduces both nerve pain and inflammation by opening the tissues inhibiting the pathway of the pinched nerve while restoring glide and mobility to the nerve. 

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Correct Posture with Rolfing

Repetitive daily activities such as sitting at your desk, using a computer, and carrying your children can have negative effects on your body's alignment, or posture. Rolfing works to correct posture by lengthening the tissue in your body. Tight tissues and muscles are responsible for locking your body into a slouch you just can't seem to break. Different than massage, Rolfing utilizes a series of sessions to work through the entire body to support proper alignment from your toes to the top of your head.

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Reduce Stress with Rolfing

Stress produces toxic hormones and detrimental movement patterns that become lodged in the body's tissues. Rolfing helps you recognize negative patterns in the body while creating new possibilities for comfort and ease. 

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Improve Performance with Rolfing

Total body alignment is an excellent way to enhance your performance.

Carrying your children, competition athletics, dance, yoga, skiing, and playing the guitar all require the use of your body and are easier, more efficient and enjoyable when your body is balanced and working well.

  • Rolfing complements a range of activities by increasing range of motion, expanding body awareness, and improving coordination.
  • Rolfing creates an aligned body which helps you to conserve energy to perform efficiently and most importantly comfortably in all aspects of your life!

Rolfing helps althletes performance by:

  • Increase range of motion
  • Improve coordination
  • Body awareness & alignment

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Children Benefit from Rolfing

Dr Rolf said, "Rolfing children at an early age fosters an understanding of the body which connects children to their inner grace and confidence. Children develop a greater sense of self the more they are empowered to know their bodies, its strengths and limitations. Structural imbalance in early life can be the basis for adult complaints as chronic backache, neck pain, and other manifestations of physical and emotional stress.

Rolfing helps children build:

  • confidence
  • self-empowerment
  • structual balance

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Pregnancy and Postpartum

Prior to Conception

Rolfing Structural Integration is a process of soft tissue manipulation designed to balance your body by releasing tension and strain. Enjoy a flexible and balanced body ready to adapt to the physical, mental, and emotional challenges of pregnancy.

Rolfing helps prepare for pregnancy by helping:

  • release tension
  • improve flexibility

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During Pregnancy

For 9 months you and your baby's bodies grow and change in new ways every day.

  • Rolfing Structural Integration work supports your body through this process of continual change.
  • Rolfing opens the ribs and hips to relieve swelling and ease low back pressure.
  • Rolfing aligns the pelvis which creates more space in the birth canal supporting an easier labor for both mom and baby.

Rolfing helps during pregnancy by:

  • relieve swelling
  • ease low back pressure
  • pelvis alignment

Postpartum Rolfing

During pregnancy and birth, muscles and bones move to new places taking on new shapes in response to your baby's growth and your experience of labor.

  • Rolfing helps the body to reorganize, improving structural balance immediately.
  • Rolfing coaches the stomach muscles back to center and re-aligns the pelvis restoring a leaner shape to the abdomen.
  • Rolfing accelerates the process of "getting your body back" by improving your posture alignment and flexibility.

This work brings comfort and awareness to your body so you can enjoy taking care of your baby and yourself.

Rolfing Postpartum helps regain:

  • posture / structural balance
  • flexibility
  • comfort and awareness
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$160 - $180, click here for rate details.

Meet your Rolfing Practioners

We are a team of experienced Rolfers.

Our style is influenced by the latest understandings of pain science and is trauma informed and respectful. Each session is intended to be a comfortable experience that leaves you feeling more relaxed, open and aligned.

 

  • $160 - $180 for 60 minutes (see rate details)
  • $100 - Children 14 and under  (40 minutes)

 

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Frequently Asked Questions About Rolfing

How and Who it helps, History of and more...

How is Rolfing different than a massage? How about the differences of Rolfing compared to a chiropractor? Learn more by following the link below and if it doesn't address your questions just ask us


How Rolfing works

Rolfing lengthens your body's soft-tissue creating space and alignment while relieving compression.

Who benefits from Rolfing

Rolfing can help everyone from seniors and children to professional athletes and new mothers. The alignment Rolfing provides reduces pain and increases performance in all aspects of life.

How Rolfing improves posture

Repetitive daily activities such as sitting at your desk, using a computer, and carrying your children can have negative effects on your body's alignment. As many times as you roll your shoulders back or attempt to straighten up, that is often not enough to maintain balanced posture against these daily demands.

Rolfing works to correct posture by lengthening the tight tissues and muscles that lock your body out of balance. Different than massage, Rolfing utilizes a series of sessions to work through the entire body to support proper alignment from your toes to your head. The benefits of improved posture create greater comfort in daily activities, increase self-esteem in personal presentation and provide a stable foundation for the body as it ages.

Rolfers educate their clients to recognize harmful movement patterns. Rolfers work with the client to suggest and explore new ways of moving, standing and sitting which are supportive and pain-free.

How Rolfing eases pain

Acute and chronic pain is often a symptom of larger structural patterns in the body. By focusing on total body alignment, Rolfing addresses the source of the pain for long-term relief.

A misaligned body has a weakened response to stress and injury. An aligned body is more adaptable and quicker to bounce back. When accidents do happen, a body full of aches and pains has less energy to put towards the healing process.

How Rolfing improves athlete’s performance

Total body alignment is an excellent way to enhance your performance. A misaligned body has a weakened response to stress and injury. An aligned body is adaptable and resilient. Carrying your children, competition athletics, yoga, skiing, playing the guitar, washing the evening dishes, and walking the dog all require the use of your body and are easier, more efficient and more enjoyable when your body is balanced and working well. Rolfing complements a range of activities by increasing range of motion, expanding body awareness, and improving coordination. An aligned body conserves energy to perform efficiently and  comfortably in all aspects of your life.

Rolfing’s history

Dr. Ida Pauline Rolf received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Columbia University in 1920. Driven to find solutions to her own health problems as well as those of her two sons, Dr. Ida Rolf spent many years studying and experimenting with different systems of healing and manipulation. Throughout most of her life she was intrigued with and explored many forms of alternative healing including homeopathy, osteopathy, chiropractics and yoga. 

In 1971 the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration was established. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado with adjunct facilities in Brazil, Germany, Australia and Japan the Rolf Institute is the sole certifying body for Rolfers.>

How long Rolfing lasts

The benefits of Rolfing reach far beyond the immediate results of a session. Many clients report noticing changes in their body up to a year later. When accidents and stress do occur, clients often opt to come in for periodic 'tune-up'  sessions in an effort to maintain their alignment. 

How Rolfing is different than a massage

Whereas the primary intentions of massage are to relax your muscles and increase circulation, Rolfing works to change the alignment of your body. Both the structure of your body and the function, how you use your body, are addressed in a Rolfing session. Rolfing works directly with nerve restrictions and connective tissue to release and align the larger structural patterns responsible for imbalance.

How Rolfing is different than Chiropractic

Chiropractors work with alignment by adjusting bone restrictions while Rolfers work with strain in the soft tissue. There are no quick adjustments in Rolfing. Bones are often able to sustain proper alignment when the soft tissue strains are addressed. The two practices can be complimentary. Rolfing helps chiropractic adjustments last longer.

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