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Rolfing Structural Integration is the name given to the system of body manipulation
originated by Dr. Ida P. Rolf, PhD in biochemistry. Dr. Rolf
had a child who had a health problem, and searched for a way,
outside of conventional medicine, to solve it. She went to
work on the child with her hands and with a good measure of
success, discovered that she could restore the child’s
body to a more balanced shape and alignment, ease of movement, by
working with the connective tissue in the body. This
evolved, then, into working on friends, and friends of friends,
until she had quite a reputation for being able to “fix”
things for people in their bodies.
As a scientist she had the insight that gravity is a force
constantly at work in the body either maturing it towards
organization, alignment and wholeness; or as an ever disorganizing
force compressing and misshaping the body. She worked privately
for more than 20 years, asking people how they felt after the last
session, watching them walk, and postulating about what she should
do next for the person. |
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