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Named after its founder, Dr. Ida P. Rolf, Rolfing® Structural Integration is a form of bodywork that reorganizes the connective tissues, called fascia, that permeate the entire body.
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From the lightest massage to the deepest structural therapy, from the physical to the energetic, find your match.
The hallmark of Rolfing Structural Integration is a standardized “recipe” known as the Ten-Series, the goal of which is to systematically balance and optimize both the structure (shape) and function (movement) of the entire body over the course of ten Rolfing sessions.
Rolfing often gets confused with deep tissue massage, but the therapy is far from it.
Rolfing Structural Integration enables your body to regain its natural integrity of form, enhancing posture, mobility and vitality. Individuals differ, however, in how readily and sustainably they embody the resulting new way of being in their bodies.
More than 30 percent of adults in the U.S. are living with chronic or severe pain. If you’re part of that statistic, you know how devastating living with severe or daily pain can be.
Rolfing Structural Integration strives to align and balance the body’s components until the entire system is a smoothly functioning coordinated whole.
In 1920, Ida Pauline Rolf received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.
Will treatments like massage, Rolfing, the Bowen Technique, and Reiki help you with fibromyalgia (FMS) or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS or ME/CFS) symptoms? That all depends both on the form of bodywork as well as your specific symptoms.
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Bodywork and manual therapy are general terms that refer to body manipulation therapies used for relaxation and pain relief. Massage is a well-known form of manual therapy.