THE BODY YOU HAVE IS THE BODY YOU‘VE EARNED BY THE WAY THAT YOU MOVE !
IF YOU WANT BETTER BODY, YOU HAVE TO MOVE BETTER !!!
Rolfing is a targeted massage which can significantly improve quality of your movement, range of motion and joint alignment.
We want you to move better, feel better, and live better – and we will use 20 years of experience to make that possible.
WHAT IS NEURO-ROLFING ?
It is a combination of traditional Rolfing and Neurocentric training.
WHAT IS ROLFING ?
Rolfing® is a holistic system of bodywork designed around a series of sessions using connective tissue manipulation and movement education. The goal is to restore normal human function by improving structure. Rolfers lengthen, align and balance the body in gravity by releasing chronic shortenings and holding patterns due to the physical and emotional stress of everyday living. When misaligned, gravity is experienced in our bodies as a subtle stress to tense up against as we maintain our uprightness. Once aligned, gravity supports our structure by simultaneously grounding and lifting us. The results are a more energetic, flexible, youthful and pain-free body.
At the conclusion of the series there is a reduction or elimination of pain, an improved appearance via better posture and reduced stress, increases in energy
Rolfing® is science based bodywork that balances the body in gravity. As such, it is concerned with establishing more upright posture and efficient movement. Through a series of ten sessions the body is progressively freed from the life long patterns of strain that have resulted in inadequate posture, poor breathing, stiff movement and tight muscles.
HOW IT WORKS ?
Rolfers believe that pain and tention are a result of an oveall pattern of imbalance in the body, one that is held together by the connective tissue or fascial system. Fascia is a fibrous material that weaves in and around the muscles, envelops bones and organs connecting the entire contents of the body in one big fluid, fascial web. Therefore, it is the support structure of the body, holding the parts in place, ultimately determining the shape and movement patterns of the individual.
With injury, lack of movement, faulty body-use habits or emotional trauma fascia becomes rigid and loses its elasticity. These conditions travel through the fasical fabric stricking the layers together often some distance from the original impact. Much of the stiffness and pain that one feels as "muscular" is actually the connective tissue hardening the area resulting in limited or imbalance movement. Compensation patterns result.
Rolfers are trained to see these relationships and resolve them. With slow, deep pressure and gentle movements from the client, the pliable quality of fascia is contacted which allows the Rolfer to release and realign the entire body, unwinding the primary adhesion and its compensations. The results not only resolve symptomatic pain but improve skeletal alignment and support allowing for minimum effort in standing, sitting and action. For Rolfers, health is more than the absence of pain.
BENEFITS OF ROLFING ?
- moving with ease and less effort increase energy
- improved flexibility, balance and alignment
- increased body awareness and recognition of different choices of movement
- less prone to injury
- relief from chronic pain
- increased breathing capacity
- increased capacity to deal with stress and recognize its physical signs
- improves SPORT PERFORMANCE
ROLFING CAN HELP WITH SPECIFIC PROBLEMS
People of all ages seek out Rolfing® for various reasons: limited mobility, chronic pain issues such as TMJ, headaches, whiplash, tendonitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, rotator cuff injury, lower back pain, scoliosis, knee problems, plantarfascitis or many other challenges resulting from injury. Some look for an improved athletic or artistic performance, often dealing with repetitive stress injuries from the intensity and duration of practice. Others want better posture or the Rolfing® "experience" of lightness and improved flexibility.
ROLFING SERIES
Traditionally, Rolfing® is done in a series of ten sessions each one building upon the results of the last in the fascial restructuring of the body. Each session addresses specific body structures and their relationships to each other, keeping the unique issues of the whole person in mind. The cumulative effect creates lasting change as gravity supports the new vertical alignment. In addition, the body is naturally drawn to what is most efficient and balanced as "good habits" replace "bad habits" and body awareness increases.
THE FIRST SESSION
In the first session, you will fill out a confidential health questionnaire and we will discuss our goals and physical history. I will evaluate your structure in standing, walking and sitting, wearing either underwear or a bathing suit (two piece for women). The hands-on part of the session lasts about an hour and most of it is done on a Rolfing® table or bench. You will be asked to do small movements as I work to facilitate the release of the fascia and repatterning of the nervous system. Walking at various times during the session to assess and integrate the chance is also a possibility. The session end with another evaluation to determine the progress that has been made and any appropriate awareness "exercises" to support new movement patterns.
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