My Approach to Rolfing®
Consultation:
When possible, I like to meet potential clients either in person or by phone for a 15-20 minute consultation, before scheduling the first session. This consultation helps me determine if we are a good fit for optimal results.
Once you complete the intake form in our first session, we will chat to better understand your issues and goals. This dialogue will continue once you are on the table and throughout our sessions as a way to provide feedback and help me understand how to best work with your system. As I better understand your structure and patterns, I may even give you “homework” in the form of movements or stretching to help reinforce the work achieved in a session, to help reinforce a new pattern, or to increase your awareness of your body in motion.
How Can Rolfing® help me?
Through injury, illness and even daily living, bodies get out of balance. Working in the connective tissue helps to re-balance the structures of the body giving a more upright while grounded feeling.
Daily repetitive motion creates biased muscle movements. These muscle patterns may be in discord with your favorite activities. Tuning and balancing your connective tissue helps you get your muscle patterns and desired motion back in harmony.
Does Rolfing hurt?:
I use just the appropriate amount of pressure necessary for a body to release. Too little pressure is irritating and too much pressure causes bracing and pain.
Education and Awareness:
An important part of my practice, in addition to achieving results, is to give you a set of tools or resources you can use at home. This is often in the form of stretches, simple exercise or movements. In this way you, the client have more control over issues that crop up in your body and will be more easily able to resolve them with less time and intervention.
I can schedule clients in my Seattle office in Seward Park, Monday – Friday. To schedule your Rolfing® session or if I can answer any questions, please call me at (206) 725-7039. . On the weekends, I am available for limited out-call sessions on Vashon Island.
You can download my HEALTH HISTORY FORM here.