Rolfing can re-map your body
Come out of pain or discomfort
Build new neural and motor patterns
Integrate trauma
Reduce strain and tiredness
Grow in self awareness, confidence and freedom
Recover from injury
rOLFING is
a way to work with our bodies; their habits, experience, pains, history and potential.
Connective tissue
is changed by manual treatment. And by coming into a process of getting to know our perception and holding patterns. This changes how we move, stand, feel and relate in the world. t.
over the course of the rolfing process
we can start to experience effortless posture, deep free breathing, a full range of movement and an opening to the ground and world around us that supports the natural growth of our human being. This carries on after our course of Rolfing is over. And can be topped up over our lives.
as rolfers
we work with care and in a holistic way. We know that our physical being cannot be separated from our other layers, and we often navigate changes with you on many levels; emotional, psychological, postural, in your work, relationships, movement and experience of self.
Hello I’m Hayley
I am an Advanced Rolfing practitioner. Certified by the British Academy of Rolfing and Structural Integration, where training is accredited by the European Rolfing Association, Munich (ERA) and the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration, Boulder, Colorado (RISI).
I offer Rolfing in London, Norwich and Leeds.
I am also a meditator, a sister, a wife, a dancer. And someone who has been through the Rolfing process in recovery from some big impacts, surgeries, metal plate implants and complex post traumatic stress . Rolfing sessions meant that I recovered, and they helped me land, grow and thrive.
They also helped me in sitting more comfortably at a desk, being less anxious, being more easeful running and dancing and breathing easier breathing when I swim.
Each Rolfing practitioner approaches Rolfing from a perspective that reflects their own skills and values. I also hold a degree in Art History and Curatorship, a diploma in fine art, play the flute pretty badly, love to jog and work as a freelance dancer.
I give my clients space to explore and understand their patterns and gifts. Before, during and after treatment, I am available to discuss concerns, thoughts or hear how you are processing the work we’re doing.
I also know, from my own experience, that often we need a combination of things to heal. If I feel I have done all I can for you or that you’d benefit from other treatments, support or scans, I’m open with that. And things weave.
I look forward to meeting you
More about Rolfing
The practise of Rolfing was developed in the1950-60s by American bio-chemist Dr. Ida Rolf. With her new modality Rolf intuited the fascia (our web of connective tissue) and it’s function in our bodies in relation to gravity, way before science caught up with her. And was part of a paradigm shift in understanding our bodies and how to help them. The role of fascia took it’s time to build meaning in the fitness, health and medical worlds, reaching them more fully in the early 2000s, and is only just moving into meaning in our everyday lives.
Rolf said:
“Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as an unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelenting threatening environment. Those over 40 my call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity”
TESTIMONIALS
“I was treated by Hayley in 2017 for a fear of heights. In all honesty, I didn’t expect much as I had had a crippling fear for over a decade. But Hayley seemed certain Rolfing sessions could help ease some of the physical symptoms. So I took a chance and to say Rolfing has changed my life would be an understatement. Last month I did a zipline through the jungle upside down. I now fly without sedatives. And I don’t freak out every time I go up steep stairs. Hayley is a Rolfing practitioner with a true gift and I will be forever grateful for everything she as done for me”
“Hayley is both intuitive and scientific in her approach, she is expert at what she does. Rolfing has helped me be pain free and at one with myself in so many ways. I would recommend it to anyone as an essential self-investment. ”
“I found my Rolfing session with Hayley to be invaluable. Suffering with knee pain, in the first session Hayley showed me a technique for mobilising my knee with minimum effort. I have since been applying the technique to other body movement and find it most effective. She has also improved my gait and the way I move so my body looks and feels lither. ”
“Hayley combines solid knowledge of her area of expertise with a sensitive and discreet therapeutic approach where the particular needs of individual clients are paramount.”
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Working with you
Supporting and guiding someone through the Rolfing process requires much of the compassion and understanding more typically associated with therapy. Part of being a Rolfer is a commitment to openness and lack of judgement, I take this seriously and enjoy the privilege of working with those who come to me.
“I came to Rolfing after suffering with migraines resulting from emotional trauma. Hayley is very respectful when working with highly sensitive emotional material. After my first session I came away, already feeling the benefits.”
Would you like to make friends with your body?
Would you like to walk, breathe and move more freely?
Would you like to have more energy?
