The fifth session is concerned with balancing surface and deep abdominal muscles to the curve of the back. Session six seeks to enlist more support and moment from the legs, pelvis and lower back, while the seventh session turns its sole attention to the neck and head.
During sessions eight and nine, the practitioner determines how best to achieve this integration, as the protocol is unique for each individual.
The tenth and final session is also one of integration, but more importantly, serves to inspire a sense of order and balance. The way I work there is fiction on the skin, so there is no hair pulling. In fact, for many of my women clients I work through their thin cotton leggings.
What is the age range of your clients? I have Rolfed clients of all ages — from an infant to an year-old. The level of vitality and the willingness to change are bigger determinants of success. How does Rolfing work with pain? Pain is an interesting phenomenon. Healthcare providers often tell clients that nothing is wrong, and in many ways that is true. There are no tests that can quantify pain; there are no tests that can measure tension.
Chronic pain can snowball into a medical issue of its own, wearing down and exhausting a person. From my Rolfing practice and teaching Mindfulness Stress Reduction courses, I learned that if people learn to release tension and not to recreate it, we could often reduce or alleviate their pain. Pain is a great example of a place where high-tech health care is often ineffective, yet labor-intensive alternative therapies can be effective.
The secret to healing pain is releasing tension. There is no drug that will do that permanently. How can Rolfing affect the ageing process? Ageing is due to the collective effect of stress and its wear on the body.
Hans Selye, MD, the original researcher of stress, referred to fascia — the soft tissue Rolfing releases — as the organ of stress. It is also the organ that shows much of the ageing processes. People have been injecting collagen—the primary protein of fascia—into ageing skin for years. Rolfing has been shown to aid suffers of chronic fatigue syndrome , the condition where stress exhausts the body. Aesthetically, Rolfing is known to produce reduction in cellulite , another believed consequence of aging.
Through releasing stress , many clients not only report feeling younger, but also are told they look younger. Simply having good posture and moving freely connote the vitality of youth. Why do the results from Rolfing last so long? All therapies have their niche where they are most effective.
For Rolfing, it is treating chronic tension and structural patterns. Rolfing, when optimally performed, addresses the causes of problems — not just the symptoms. Treating a specific symptom so that the immediate pain goes away is often easy; creating a level of order so that it does not return is the challenging part. We often develop behaviors such as not breathing correctly or moving a limb in an unusual manner. A more natural pattern needs to be learned if the body is to maintain order and comfort.
In every session, I work with the client on learning these more efficient patterns. In the beginning, it is hard to believe that change is possible, but as the body responds to the Rolfing, it becomes much easier to change patterns. What is good posture? Posture, the behavior aspect of structure, is created by what we teach our bodies to do in gravity. It evolves to be a set of habits we no longer think about.
My experience has shown me that what our mothers, gym teachers, drill sergeants and culture have taught us is often not the best posture.
Often when a person is asked to stand up straight, he or she attempts to straighten up and further distorts his or her misalignment. The person will work even harder at standing erect, which means holding parts of their body more. Not only does this often make one more tense, it creates an imbalance. My goal is to assist a client in achieving good posture that not only looks good, but also works well and feels good. This is achieved by first releasing the soft tissue so the body can be aligned.
Then — and this is often the difficult part — old habits need to be unlearned and replaced with more appropriate habits. My goal is to have a person stand up straight without effort and without holding. What does the medical community think about Rolfing? Over the years, I have witnessed a growing familiarity and acceptance of Rolfing, which goes with the growing acceptance of holistic health practices.
Since I started practicing, I have treated more than 70 docs. Why do you want your clients to stop seeing you? Much of the change from Rolfing occurs after a series is completed, because the body needs time to integrate.
I have had clients come back after six months with an entirely different body. Places that hurt and were extremely tense became calm and relaxed. We spend years getting tense; it takes several months to unwind that tension. I usually suggest other therapies or classes instead of continuing with more Rolfing sessions, because clients can get the most for their money if they seek the assistance of others after the series is completed.
Where do your clients come from? To my surprise, the number of clients coming from outside Sandpoint continues to grow. They tell me it is worth the drive — I guess they would know. By releasing restrictions along the sides of the body, it removes tensions between the shoulders and pelvis so the major segments of the trunk can begin to move toward proper alignment.
This session gives you the feeling of being put together, of resting more comfortably on the earth, of having a more elongated body. By the end of this session, you will have a sense of what structural integration is about. We ask that you commit to completing the basic series if you continue after this session. SESSION 4: This is the first core session, a junction between the surface-layer work of sessions and the core work of sessions Session 4 improves weight transmission along the inner line of the legs to bring grounding up through to the pelvis and liberate restrictions in muscles connecting the upper and lower body.
This session gives a strong sense of increased length and freedom in the legs, and many clients report a new feeling of energy, harmony, and integration in over-all body movement. It releases fascial restrictions on internal organs, creating proper space for each one and arranging them around the internal vertical line.
This session provides increased mobility for the pelvis and begins to create balance and congruence in the spinal column. Many clients report that this session leaves them with a new sense of internal space and a deep feeling of energy, peace, and centeredness.
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