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What is the Rolfing Technique?

Author: Zach Thompson


The Rolfing technique is named after Dr. Ida Rolf. It is a massage that pinpoints connective tissue between the joints. This massage corrects posture, plus encourages the patient to walk and stand properly. When good posture is maintained, the patient is healthier and under less stress. It takes about 10 sessions to work the entire body and improve the patient's posture. It is also known as Structural ...

Rolfing Technique for Massaging

Author: Zach Thompson


The Rolfing technique is named after Dr. Ida Rolf. It is a massage that pinpoints connective tissue between the joints. This massage corrects posture, plus encourages the patient to walk and stand properly. When good posture is maintained, the patient is healthier and under less stress. It takes about 10 sessions to work the entire body and improve the patient's posture. It is also known as Structural Integration. ...

Rolfing and Ethics

Author: John Barton


Ethics is defined as being a set of principles of right conduct, and as a Rolfer the therapeutic relationship necessitates this structure as much as it is defined by it. Les Kertay, Advanced Rolfer, defines ethics as the principles of a therapeutic relationship and in this brief review I will discuss insight into how and why problems arise in the therapeutic relationship spoken to at the 2002 Rolf Institute ...

Integrative Manual Therapy

Author: Sharon Hopkins


How does it work?



Integrative Manual Therapy, or IMT as it is called, is a health care process that encompasses a wide range of health care practices. It achieves health and healing by taking into account the diverse systems of the human body and addressing dysfunction at the cellular level. The therapy consists of a combination of functional and structural forms of rehabilitation that stem directly from the treatment ...

What Is Structural Integration ?

Author: Joseph Ackerman


Structural Integration is a way of working with the body that changes the way you sit, stand, move or feel your body when you are doing those things. In the early days of Dr. Ida Rolf’s teachings her followers nicknamed her work Rolfing. As Dr. Rolf chose to call the work by her designation of Structural Integration, we will do so here. Structural Integration is practiced in ...

The Benefits of Structural Integration: An Overview

Author: Joseph Ackerman


Structural Integration as designed by Dr. Ida P. Rolf is a 10 session systematic process of deep bodywork that improves the structural and functional abilities of the human body in its relationship to the gravitational field. Through the systematic approach of reorganizing major joints, and body segments, while releasing the chronically held tension and torsion patterns we are able to achieve a rapid change in ...