The INTUITIVE, structured approached of Rolfing, with you and your body at the centre, means that it can help people with A WIDE VARIETY OF SYMPTOMS and with a variety of wishes.
Rolfers undo posture and movement patterns in the soft tissue of your body. patterns made through INJURY, BEHAVIOUR, PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL and PSYCHOLOGICAL impacts. Or the repetition of movements or tasks. Then we help you build new patterns so you don’t return to restrictive, painful ones.
By creating an environment for CHANGE IN THE BODY and BODY AWARENESS. and by methodically working through all the layers of the body’s soft tissue, we bring to the forefront YOUR OWN CAPACITY TO BE WELL, and to do what you wish with your body.
Working with different conditions and development goals:
chronic pain/chronic conditions
(migraines, respiratory conditions, fibromyalgia, back pain,depression, IBS, Carpel tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, frozen shoulder )
Chronic conditions can be symptoms of other underlying problems or habits, physical or emotion. It is essential to identify and deal with the underlying causes, as simply alleviating the pain associated with a complaint is likely to be temporary. We work with your habits of standing and moving, and on deep holding patterns and this can bring you out of pain.
trauma
(accidents, physiological and emotion events, conflict)
Events shape our physical and emotional systems, when an event is unresolved its effect can leave a lasting and negative impact. Often displaying as parts of the body becoming frozen or painful, flash-backs, anxiety, hormonal imbalance, a lack of stability, an activated nervous system, sweating, insomnia, these symptoms can come and go unexpectedly; this is trauma. Rolfing’s approach to trauma is to work on the physical parts of the body which have become frozen, helping clients to process the event, feel safe again, and recover.
wellness
(tiredness, potential, power, strength, performance)
Wellness is created by having sufficient time and space in the body where we are free from pain and not exhausted from daily activities. Rolfing offers the opportunity to identify patterns which lead to exhaustion, lack or holding and can help you to move in a better direction.
deepening your practice
(yoga, martial arts, dance)
Re-organising how you stand and move, working on deep and superficial holding, belief systems held in the body and old injuries can mean that you free breath patterns, find greater freedom, length, strength, grace, power and capacity. And improve posture, body awareness, agility, flexibility and precision.
posture
(LENGTH, REALIGNMENT, GRACE)
A single movement is made up of many muscles working together, catching a ball involves both the extension of the arm and the preparation back, shoulder, calves, chest and stomach to support that movement. Posture is no different, we use both the conscious and subconscious movement efficiently to achieve it. Rolfing is unique in its approach to educating both these systems.
improving performance
(cycling, golfing, running, dance..)
Re-organising how you stand and move, and working on deep and superficial holding and old injuries can mean that you improve core strength, aerobic capacity, distribution of forces, cadence, endurance, flexibility, precision, power, balance, body awareness, stride and body placement.
rehabilitation
(injury recovery, post-natal recovery)
To reduce pain in the short term, the body can create new and unhelpful patterns, both at the site of injury and elsewhere in the body. These compensations can last a lifetime and create further complaints. Rolfing offers an opportunity to understand our conditions and their connections, in order to recover. During pregnancy, our bodies of course change considerably, and we can need help to return to our no-longer pregnant balance, posture and movement, as well as to help to process and recover from the birth of our baby. Rolfing works through the body systems to put as back in balance.
mental health
(depression, anxiety, manic- depression, bipolar disorer, fear)
Aspects of mental health manifest in the body, and cannot be separated from our bodies . Ida Rolf said “no situation exists in a human which a psychologist would diagnose as a feeling of insecurity or inadequacy unless it is accompanied by a physical situation which bears witness to the fact that the gravitational support is inadequate.” With dialogue, touch and time, addressing physical manifestations and the mental health issues they may be associated with, we can create the conditions and possibility of recovery and a return to wholeness.
attention challenges
(distraction,nervous system challenges,presense, connectedness)
More and more, in our busy lives, people are suffering from what are now termed broadly as ‘attention deficit’ conditions. These can be environmentally related, trauma related or have roots in a pattern in our bodies or behaviour that we have acquired or learnt. In moving through the layers of our connective tissue and un-doing adhesions, we can ‘come back to ground’ as it were, ‘come home’ to a quieter way to be, recover the frictions that have wound our nervous system up, and work out what this means for us in our own unique lives. Unravel.
self-development
(length, growth, grace, self-image, belief systems, confidence)
Some people come to Rolfing with expressions like ‘I want to be better’, ‘I want to make friends with my body’, ‘ I want to explore myself, like I do in psychotherapy, but through my body’. The focused series of deep tissue work, with a space for talking and re-organising how we move in the world, how we touch the world and touch others, also provides a space for this kind of work.