The advantages of Rolfing "SI"

With Rolfing you will experience fewer pains and tensions, more energy, a better respitory system, recuction of stress, improved overall performance, increased performance in sports with reduced risk of injury, and an overall greater experience in sports, yoga, martial arts and other physical demanding exercises.

Rolfing "SI" is something everyone can benefit from.

• - Atheletes (semi and pro)
• - Dancers
• - Mucicians
• - Actors
• - Writers
• - Yoga practitioners
• - Martial arts practitioners

Rolfing "SI"is facilitating an evolution with in the individual and can alleviate the following cronical problems.

• General disorders
• Headaches or Whiplash
• Back aches
• Discs Herniation
• Discs Protrusion
• Scoliosis
• Bow legs<
• Knocked knees
• Frozen shoulders
• Sciatica

Rolfing "SI" is a very personal process

It's important to remember that no two people are the same, and as such, the results and experience from SI will never be the same.

A typical outcome that people will notice is people gain a few centimeters in height look slimmer. This is a direct result of a corrected posture.

The feeling of general discomfort or chronic pain can often be alleviated and patients mostly report of the effects being permanent. They gain more flexibility, a better balance, increased energy levels and improved self confidence.

Rolfing "SI" is about physical adjustments, but it affects the whole body and soul. We as humans are made up of feelings, beliefs and behavioral patters and our physical being. Everything is connected.

If you have an body working more appropriate, the force of gravity can flow through, Then, spontaneously, the body heals itself and the physical structure you will open the potential of the individual.

Integrating Scar Tissue.

There are 19 separate techniques used to integrate different qualities of scar tissue into the fascial web and continually developing and expanding.

Working with scars is like speaking a different language in the world of connective tissue. Scar tissue is very dense fascia with unique properties. Scar tissue work uses a casual, light touch - a little reminiscent of working with bread dough.

The work is rarely painful - even for very new scars, and the amount of change in one intervention is extensive. The cosmetic effect is delightful and the functional changes can be profound. Natural and surgical scars of any age respond immediately followed by a short period of rapid healing and continued improvement. The improvements are permanent.

Scar tissue quality changes quickly and easily. Lumps, gaps, ridges, holes, bumps, knots, and strings in the tissue rapidly smooth out into a three dimensional fascial web. The work starts with the surface layers and goes into the far reaches of the scar including work with any involved viscera. Scar work often results in large whole body integration shifts along with trauma resolution, and nerve-impaired numbness usually resolves within a session.

Scar work can fit seamlessly into an SI series or be used as a stand alone intervention session.

The story of Ida P. Rolf, Ph.D.

Ida P. Rolf, a native New Yorker, graduated from Barnard College in 1916; and in 1920 she earned a Ph.D. in biological chemistry from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. For the next twelve years Ida Rolf worked at the Rockefeller Institute, first in the Department of Chemotherapy and later in the Department of Organic Chemistry. Eventually, she rose to the rank of Associate, no small achievement for a young woman in those days.

In 1927, she took a leave of absence from her work to study mathematics and atomic physics at the Swiss Technical University in Zurich. During this time, she also studied homeopathic medicine in Geneva.

Returning from Europe, she spent the decade of the 1930’s seeking answers to personal and family health problems. Medical treatment available at that time seemed inadequate to her; this led to her exploration of osteopathy, chiropractic medicine, yoga, the Alexander technique and Korzybski’s work on states of consciousness.

By the 1940’s, she was working in a Manhattan apartment where her schedule was filled with people seeking help. She was committed to the scientific point of view, and yet many breakthroughs came intuitively through the work she did with chronically disabled persons unable to find help elsewhere. This was the work eventually to be known as Structural Integration. For the next thirty years, Ida Rolf devoted herself to developing her technique and training programs.

During the 1950’s, her reputation spread to England where she spent summers as a guest of John Bennett, a prominent mystic and student of Gurdjieff. Then, in the mid-60’s, Dr. Rolf was invited to Esalen Institute in California at the suggestion of Fritz Perls, founder of Gestalt Therapy. There she began training practitioners and instructors of Structural Integration.

The more Structural Integration classes Ida Rolf taught, the more students sought admission to training. Newspaper and magazine articles began featuring the person and work of Ida Rolf, and soon the necessity for a formal organization became apparent. As early as 1967, the first Guild for Structural Integration was loosely formed and eventually headquartered in a private home in Boulder, Colorado.

Until her death in 1979, Ida Rolf actively advanced training classes, giving direction to her organization, planning research projects, writing, publishing and public speaking. In 1977, she wrote Rolfing: The Integration of Human Structures (Harper and Row, Publishers). This book is the major written statement of Ida P. Rolf’s scholastic and experiential investigation into the direct intervention with the evolution of the human species.