The Rolfing Process

The First Three Sessions - Creating Space, Support and Establishing Layers.

In the first 3 sessions the Rolfer will be working on opening the breath by creating space and resilience in the structure. As client begins to expand his/her breathing, the tissues become more oxygenated and thus become healthier and easier to change.

As the entire weight and balance of the body is resting on our feet, many symptoms in the back and neck is caused by misalignment and distortion in the feet and ankle.

The Rolfer will work on differentiating layers in the torso beginning to establish a midline in the side plane of the body. This would allow the shoulder girdle and the pelvic girdle to move freely and separately and yet related to each other.

Session 4 - 7 The Core Hours

So far the superficial fascia of the body has been touched on, and as the outer wrapping of muscle releases, space is created for changes to happen at deeper levels.

The Rolfer begin to work more specifically in the structure with underlying aberrant patterns in the legs, pelvis, thorax, neck and head.  These sessions involves building support from the legs, lenghtening the torso, creating space and differentiating the entire torso and spine, initiating lift and finding support to position the head.





"If a body is normal, the psoas should elongate during flexion and fall back toward the spine...By virtue of this, the normal psoas forms an important part of a supporting web holding the lumbar vertebrae appropriately spaned."

-Ida P Rolf

Integration - Sessions 8-10

The integration hours is about relationships: between structure and function, core and sleeve, extrinsic/intrinsic, inside/outside, horizontal/vertical, up/down, being and doing. As a result, the body structure would be one complete interrelating whole being.