Changing your posture with Rolfing

Aesthetics don’t guide us as Rolfers but we do use our eyes to see how your body is arranging itself, and to help us decide where to work in each session. It could be an overloaded curve in the spine that we observe, or that there is lots of movement in the sides of the ribs on the in-breath, and hardly any in the upper ribs near the collar bone, for example. And we chat through this with you.

The founder of Rolfing Ida Rolf established this way of working. Not to make everybody straight but to enable you to feel more comfortable and more energised, as much as possible.

I do have clients who come because they don’t ‘like’ the way their body has come to arrange itself. This is a way that discomfort can show up. And your body and your posture do change over the Rolfing process.

We encourage layers of the fascia (connective tissue) that have hardened in order to arrange you in the way your life or history has asked them to, to soften. And then we show you and your body a way to arrange that could mean your inhabit a different posture. You may also be able to breath more freely or walk using both inner and outer leg and feel more supported by the ground, for example. And this all changes what the posture does and looks like.