Rolfing body pain, back pain, neck pain, hands-on body work beyond massage. A therapy to find balance which can aid in the treatment of chronic pain, poor posture, and traumatic recovery.Text Box: “One individual may experience his losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in the back, another as the unflattering contour of his body, another as constant fatigue, and yet another as an unrelenting threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structures and the structures of others that it has been ignored; they are off-balance; they are at war with gravity.” —Dr. Ida P.

“My wife recommended Rolfing highly.  The first of ten sessions fixed my back pain.” 

—Willie Nelson

Singer/Songwriter

What is Rolfing?

When she developed Rolfing more than 50 years ago,  Dr. Ida P. Rolf Ph.D., first called her work structural integration.  The genius of the work rests on Dr. Rolf’s insight that the body is more at ease and functions most effectively when its structure is balanced in gravity.  She observed that, over time, the field of gravity actually accentuates the body’s imbalances and diminishes its flexibility.  Based on these core observations, she developed her original method of hands-on manipulation—which later became known as Rolfing—to reduce gravity’s adverse effects on the body.

So what’s gravity got to do with it?

Is it a sharp pain in your low back when you bend over for the morning paper?  Or perhaps a persistent neck ache that’s aggravated by long hours sitting in front of the computer?  If tension, constriction and pain have become chronic in your life, it’s an important signal—a signal that your body is struggling with a structural imbalance. 

Like an old house settling on an uneven foundation, as we grow older our bodies lose balance and symmetry.  Cracks start showing in the walls, old doors won’t shut.  You can patch the walls, you can reset the hinges, but you can’t stop the symptoms of imbalance in gravity without going straight to the foundation. 

That’s why thousands of people have turned to Rolfing.  Its hands-on approach to releasing deeply ingrained patterns of tension and strain has been proven effective in treating everything from neck and back pain to impaired mobility, repetitive stress injuries and other chronic tension.  Rolfing goes well beyond conventional therapies and other forms of bodywork to balance the body in gravity for permanent relief.

Why do people seek Rolfing?

· increased ease and energy in the body

· recovery from injury and trauma including accidents, surgeries and repetitive stress injuries

· chronic pain issues such as joint pain, headaches, back and neck pain

· improved physical performance for yoga, dancing, martial arts, athletics and other body oriented activities

· postural problems like scoliosis, hunched shoulders, etc.

 

Release   Relieve    Rejuvenate

 314 Clifton Avenue, Suite 102 • Minneapolis, MN 55403

In | Form • Structural Therapy for the Modern Body

Rolfing® and the Little Boy Logo are service marks of the Rolf Institute® of Structural Integration.  Copyright 2007 In|Form Rolfing

Phone: 763-227-9907

inform@informrolfing.com