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"One individual may experience his losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in the back, another as
an unflattering contour of his body, another as constant fatigue, and yet another as an unrelenting
threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet, all these signals may be
pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structures and the structures of others that
it has been ignored; they are off-balance; they are at war with gravity."
Dr. Ida P. Rolf
Dr. Ida P. Rolf
When she developed Rolfing more than 50 years ago, Dr. Ida P. Rolf Ph.D., first called her work
structural integration. The genius of the work rests on Dr. Rolf’s insight that the body is more
at ease and functions most effectively when its structure is balanced in gravity. She observed
that, over time, the field of gravity actually accentuates the body’s imbalances and diminishes
its flexibility. Based on these core observations, she developed her original method of hands-on
manipulation which later became known as Rolfing to reduce gravity’s adverse effects on the body.
Like an old house settling on an uneven foundation, as we grow older our bodies lose balance and symmetry. Cracks start showing in the walls, old doors won’t shut. You can patch the walls, you can reset the hinges, but you can’t stop the symptoms of imbalance in gravity without going straight to the foundation.
That’s why thousands of people have turned to Rolfing. Its hands-on approach to releasing deeply ingrained patterns of tension and strain has been proven effective in treating everything from neck and back pain to impaired mobility, repetitive stress injuries and other chronic tension. Rolfing goes well beyond conventional therapies and other forms of bodywork to balance the body in gravity for permanent relief.
For more information go to www.rolf.org.
So what’s gravity got to do with it?
Is it a sharp pain in your low back when you bend over for the morning paper? Or perhaps a persistent neck ache that’s aggravated by long hours sitting in front of the computer? If tension, constriction and pain have become chronic in your life, it’s an important signal a signal that your body is struggling with a structural imbalance.Like an old house settling on an uneven foundation, as we grow older our bodies lose balance and symmetry. Cracks start showing in the walls, old doors won’t shut. You can patch the walls, you can reset the hinges, but you can’t stop the symptoms of imbalance in gravity without going straight to the foundation.
That’s why thousands of people have turned to Rolfing. Its hands-on approach to releasing deeply ingrained patterns of tension and strain has been proven effective in treating everything from neck and back pain to impaired mobility, repetitive stress injuries and other chronic tension. Rolfing goes well beyond conventional therapies and other forms of bodywork to balance the body in gravity for permanent relief.
For more information go to www.rolf.org.