Rolfing® Sessions
What is the Rolfing® approach?
You can use Rolfing® Structural Integration to transform your body to your next level of ease and support. Our bodies already have an intelligent system of myofascial tissue intricately embedded with nerves, woven within muscle, and between muscles and bone.
Imagine you have an "inner 3D suit." This is your fascia! Everyone knows how distracting it is when your sweater is overly stretched out or your pants are too tight. It is time to be more comfortable inside your body. Rolfing Structural Integration® aims to help us to tune our fascia like an instrument so that you feel both support of gravity and also freedom of movement .
Why try Rolfing® Structural Integration? Ten Series Benefits
You can use Rolfing® Structural Integration to transform your body to your next level of ease and support. Our bodies already have an intelligent system of myofascial tissue intricately embedded with nerves, woven within muscle, and between muscles and bone.
Imagine you have an "inner 3D suit." This is your fascia! Everyone knows how distracting it is when your sweater is overly stretched out or your pants are too tight. It is time to be more comfortable inside your body. Rolfing® Structural Integration aims to help us to tune our fascia like an instrument so that you feel both support of gravity and also freedom of movement .
Rolfing® Ten Series
What does Rolfing® Structural Integration feel like? Will it hurt?
Rolfing® sessions can feel like a lot of things. In the past, the Rolfing® approach had a reputation of being very heavy handed and even painful. But like all good healthcare practices, it has changed with research. We now know that myofascial tissue can be changed by lots of different types of touch. It can be very soft, subtle, and energetic or it can be more intense and direct. All of these approaches can be effective. What’s important is that we tailor your experience in your Rolfing® sessions to what works for your body. I want to learn from your body how you want to experience the work.
Do I tip my Rolfing® Practitioner?
No, thank you, it is not customary.
Can I exercise during my Ten Series?
I would love to help this transition be optimal for you. I can help you reflect on your activity and integrate movement as part of your process.
What do I wear?
For women: please wear a bra where you would feel coverage if you were side-lying and with thinner straps so that I can access your back. For bottoms - wearing something like boyshorts or bathing suit bottoms is fine.
For men: wearing shorts or boxer-briefs would work well.
What is Fascia?
From The Fascial Research Foundation :
- "A fascia is a sheath, a sheet, or any other dissectible aggregations of connective tissue that forms beneath the skin to attach, enclose, and separate muscles and other internal organs. See "A fascia and the fascial system".
- The fascial system consists of the three-dimensional continuum of soft, collagen containing, loose and dense fibrous connective tissues that permeate the body. It incorporates elements such as adipose tissue, adventitiae and neurovascular sheaths, aponeuroses, deep and superficial fasciae, epineurium, joint capsules, ligaments, membranes, meninges, myofascial expansions, periostea, retinacula, septa, tendons, visceral fasciae, and all the intramuscular and intermuscular connective tissues including endo-/peri-/epimysium. The fascial system surrounds, interweaves between, and interpenetrates all organs, muscles, bones and nerve fibers, endowing the body with a functional structure, and providing an environment that enables all body systems to operate in an integrated manner."
Where can I learn about fascia?
Fascia Research Society - an international organization that has an annual congress, event, posts latest research https://fasciaresearchsociety.org/
CONNECT Conference- occurs every couple years and focuses on latest connective tissue research relating to athletes https://connect2021.com/
The Fasciae: Anatomy Dysfunction, and Treatment by Serge Paoletti
Fascia: The Tensional Network of the Human Body: The science and clinical applications in manual and movement therapy by Robert Schleip, Thomas W. Findley, Leon Chaitow, Peter A Huijing
Youtubes by Robert Schleip, a prominent fascia researcher in Germany
FR:EIA- Unveiling of the World's first 3D Human Fascia Plastinate- BODY WORLDS Museum, Berlin