Why does The Rolf Method of Structural Integration Affect Change?

The wonders are occurring only because of gravity and only because we know how to use gravity to create wonders. It is gravity that is the tool; it is gravity that is the therapist. All we (as a Rolfers) are doing, is directing the flow of gravity by virtue of organizing the body as though it were an electric wire so that gravity can flow through it.  ~ Dr. Ida Rolf

If you can imagine how it feels to live in a fluid, light, balanced body, free of pain, stiffness and chronic stress, at ease with itself and the earth’s gravitational field; then you will understand the goals of Rolfing.  ~ Jeff Maitland

Disease is inertia, healing is movement, if you put the body in motion, you will change.  ~ Gabrielle Roth

Ida Rolf saw her work as a special kind of education whereby the burden of gravity upon the human body is alleviated. I have taken this to mean that a Rolfer's job is to connect with and cultivate whatever it is in us that knows how to find ease in sitting, standing, or lying down. To be honest, I do not know what this knowing is. I do not know what to call it or how it does what it does, but I know it. I know how to work with it. I know that it can be lost or forgotten or prevented from expressing itself. And I know that it exists in every living being. For me, every session is an opportunity to communicate with this knowing, in both myself and whomever I might be working with. To communicate and connect with this knowing can make for profound healing, an experience that is almost sacred, characterized as it is by silence, peace, mystery and play.  ~ Soken Graf

Structural Integration is about the whole person . . . the sensation of moving from weakness into strength, the exhilaration of owning a new part of oneself, the immediate and simultaneous re-education of one's being and action with the joy of self-empowerment, waking up. These are the experiences of Structural Integration.  ~ Emmett Hutchins

When the body can function appropriately, so that the force of gravity flows through, the body heals itself.  ~ Dr. Ida Rolf

There are many ways to access the multi-dimensional Self.  In a culture that is often distanced from a sensational experience of our bodies, a somatic approach to healing is increasingly vital.  ~ D.B.

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