Roberts Rolfing

Specialties

Rolfing is the hands-​on manipulation of the body’s soft connective tissue, known as Fascia. Fascia facilitates the layers of muscles to slide over each other, allowing for smooth, uninhibited movement and extension. When it is injured from impact trauma, postural habits and repetitive stress, that tissue becomes dense, gluing the muscles together, inhibiting movement, compressing the joints, and stressing the tendons and ligaments. Rolfing works to take that tissue back to a gel and allows the body to work with instead of against gravity.

The result is greater flexibility, resilience and less vulnerability to further injury.

To view videos about what a Rolfing session looks like, please visit my website.

History

Established in 1984.

1984 Graduated from the Rolf Institute as a Rolfing Movement Teacher

1989 Graduated from the Rolf Institute as a Certified Rolfer

1999 Graduated as an Advanced Certified Rolfer

Rolf Institute — Provider of Continuing Education Credits for supervision of new Practitioners

International Association for Structural Integration — Approved Provider of Continuing Education Credits

Starting in 1989 I have been teaching Rolfing trainings for students who are becoming Practitioners, Rolfing Movement trainings and workshops for people who are already Practitioners. These have been in other countries such as Brazil, Germany, France, Italy and the UK, as well as in many parts of the US, including Hawaii

Most recently I was invited to teach a Movement Workshop at the Second International Facial Congress in Amsterdam in 2009

Meet the Business Owner

Judith R.

Business Owner

In 1980, after several years of intermittent, but temporarily disabling, lower back pain I developed a severe case of Sciatica. The agonizing pain originated in my lower back and, traveling down my leg, went all the way to my foot. I was unable to raise my arms above shoulder height and had great difficulty walking or sitting. Where this would have been ‘an episode’ before, now it was not going away.

Eventually I discovered Rolfing and found that the cause of the problem was very dense connective tissue in the hip, the result of an accident in childhood. This caused compression of the bones in the lower back such that the Sciatic nerve was aggravated and inflamed. Lying down had taken th pressure off the nerve so it was not longer painful. Now the work began to unglue the dense fascia in the hip.

My life changed, I no longer needed the corset. I no longer needed to be careful as to how I moved or what movements I made — I had never dreamed of this freedom!