The heart of Rolfing is the "recipe" of 10 systematic sessions. This isn't just a random sequence; it's a carefully designed educational journey for your body, guiding it toward its own unique, organized blueprint. Each session builds upon the last, progressively releasing tension and creating space for renewed balance and ease.

Understanding The Process:

• Sessions 1-7: Unwinding & Deep Penetration

  • These initial sessions progressively address different regions of your body, working from superficial to deeper layers of your fascial web. Each "hour" has a specific goal, creating demands on the body that prepare it for deeper release in subsequent sessions. The focus is on unwinding long-held patterns and freeing your structure.

• Sessions 8-10: Organizing & Integration

  • Once your body has been significantly loosened and "listens" to new possibilities, the final three sessions are dedicated to organizing your newly freed structure. This phase ensures your entire body is integrated, allowing you to move and live more efficiently and effortlessly within gravity. It's about embodying your new state of balance.

The pacing of your Rolfing 10-Series is flexible and tailored to your individual needs and lifestyle. As Dr. Ida P. Rolf famously said:

"Rolfing can be like making your bed in the morning. You think you're going to get by without pulling that bed apart... When you get all the covers puffed up, you've got nine ridges running across the bed. Now you've got to go to a deeper layer and organize the deeper layer, and make your bed on top of that. Then you've got a made bed. Well, it's the same with the body: you've got to organize those deeper layers."

While each session aims to "chase kinks out of your being," here are common approaches:

• Intensive Approach: 2 sessions per week (with 3-4 day intervals). This can bring you to a new space in your body within 5 weeks, resulting in a freshly attuned and organized being.
• Slower Sequence: 1 session per week, or even every two weeks. This allows more time for your body to integrate the energy and structural changes unleashed in each hour, and provides more reflection time.
• Accelerated Series (with caution): Occasionally, individuals complete all 10 sessions in 10 days or less. This is much more challenging for your body to integrate and typically requires alternate support to ease the rapid shape-shifting.

We'll discuss the best pace for your unique journey during your consultation.

While there are many excellent bodywork practices, Rolfing Structural Integration stands apart as a comprehensive process and education. It's not simply a quick fix or temporary relief; it's an evolutionary journey designed to transform your fundamental relationship with your body and gravity.

• Systematic Approach: Unlike modalities that address symptoms in isolation, Rolfing follows a specific "recipe" to systematically balance your entire fascial system.
• Lasting Change: It aims to create new freedom and alignment from within, helping you sustain positive changes long after your sessions are complete.
• Enhanced Body Awareness: Through hands-on kinesthetic manipulation and movement guidance, you learn to feel, understand, and engage with your body in new ways.
• Holistic Evolution: As Dr. Ida Rolf, who spent over 20 years observing bodies and understanding how they "talked" to her, envisioned – this series is about more than just physical alignment. It's about catalyzing your growth in understanding yourself, overcoming physical, emotional, and even psychological challenges.

The unique territory covered in each "Hour" session, culminating in the "organizing" last three sessions built upon the "unwinding" first seven, accentuates moving and standing with a reawakened, integrated alignment.