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The Method
What is Rolfing?
Rolfing was developed by the American biochemist Dr. Ida P. Rolf. In contrast to other manual therapies that only treat individual symptoms in the body, she wanted to improve the complex overall structure of posture and therefore called her system “Structural Integration”.
What is somatic experiencing?
The biophysicist and psychologist Dr. Peter A. Levine was one of the first to research psychosomatics in the 1970s and developed his approach to body-oriented trauma work, Somatic Experiencing (SE).
Unlike more cognitive methods, SE uses the connection between the body and the autonomic nervous system and works with physical symptoms and perceptions, images or emotions and spontaneous movements to resolve traumatic experiences.
The Method
What is Somatic experiencing?
The biophysicist and psychologist Dr. Peter A. Levine was one of the first to research psychosomatics in the 1970s and developed his approach to body-oriented trauma work, Somatic Experiencing (SE).
Unlike more cognitive methods, SE uses the connection between the body and the autonomic nervous system and works with physical symptoms and perceptions, images or emotions and spontaneous movements to resolve traumatic experiences.
about living and learning
Rolfing gave my life a new direction more than 20 years ago. I got to know Somatic Experiencing a few years ago and was immediately fascinated by this gentle but intensive method.
Working with people fascinates and fulfills me every day. Being able to experience the individual changes in my clients is always a great joy and an incentive to continue learning and to understand the complexity of the human system a little better.
about me
Reviews
What clients said:
When I started Rolfing, I wanted to have a persistent back and neck ache on my right side corrected. I never expected to be told that it was my left side of the body that had problems. It was slightly ‘shorter’ than the right side, and it could actually be corrected. I felt a change from day 1! After having gone through ten sessions, my body structure is much more equalized, and I don’t have this persistent back ache which I used to always have. I think that the changes are only starting now, and I am glad to have been re-educated in the dynamics of proper motion and posture. I totally recommend Rolfing!
Rhadka, 36
I have been working on my body since 31 years as a dancer. Throughout my career I have had the chances to arrive to a certain kind of body awareness through techniques, useful masters and unuseful teachers, injuries and recoveries. Until I met Rolfing I was thinking to have quite a good body awareness…However I found out that there is so much more to learn. I realised that my awareness was limited by old habits and patterns. The Rolfing sessions have been intensive lessons for me in which not only I became aware of so many more muscles in my body and how subtle the connections work, but also I was able to work (and still am) on old movement and postural habits. The ten sessions are like a key that unlock the treasures of our own bodies. It is an immediate reaction, alive and long lasting and extremely efficient. The immediate changes in the breathing and effort economy have had a very positve impact on my daily life as well as on my teaching and performing dance. I think that Rolfing has been the best investment I have done to myself.”