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Is
it a sharp pain in the low back when you bend
over for the morning paper?
Or a persistent neck ache that’s
aggravated by long periods of sitting or stress?
If tension, constriction, and pain have
become chronic in your life, it’s an important
signal – a signal that your body is stuggling
with a structural imbalance.
Often years in the making, such
imbalances can arise from poor postural habits
and accumulated stress.
Or they may occur suddenly as the result
of a physical injury or traumatic event in which
tissues are stretched beyond their limits.
Whatever the cause, treating symptoms
rarely brings lasting results.
While a massage or medication may give
you some temporary relief, the tension,
inflammation, and pain inevitably return.
That’s
why thousands of people have turned to RolfingÒ
over the past 30 years.
Its hands-on approach to releasing deeply
ingrained patterns of tension and strain has
been highly effective in treating everything
from neck and back pain, to hiatal hernias, to
impaired mobility, repetitive stress injuries,
and many chronic tension.
Rolfing goes well beyond conventional
therapies and other forms of bodywork to balance
the body in gravity for permanent relief.
What’s more, many people find Rolfing
is an excellent way to keep their bodies
flexible and adaptable – able to meet the
daily stress and changing demands of life.
In fact, professional athletes and
dancers have long used Rolfing to enhance their
performance.
Michelle Kwan (Olympic figure skater),
Phil Jackson (Chicago Bulls coach), Cris Carter
(Minnesota Vikings Football star), Leon Fletcher
(famous pianist), and Ivan Lendl (former tennis
champion) are a few of the people who have
greatly benefited from Rolfing.
Whatever your profession, passion, or age
– Rolfing offers you a proven pathway to
greatly enhance physical flexibility, vitality,
and balance.
WHAT
IS ROLFING?
If
you can imagine how it feels to live in a fluid,
light, balanced body, free of pain, stiffness,
and chronic stress, then you can begin to
appreciate the depth of the Rolfing experience.
While every Rolfing session is unique,
addressing you specific physical problems and
patterns, it involves the manipulation of fascia
at varying depths in the body.
Thus, the sensations can very from mild
to strong and range from pleasurable warmth to
momentary discomfort.
At times there may be little sensation at
all.
Early
in your first session, your Rolfer and you will
establish a level of physical intensity that you
are comfortable with.
Often, within the first few sessions you
will notice a palpable release of tension and
tight-ness.
Many people report feeling lighter,
taller, and more balanced.
Sometimes the effects build more
gradually, with an increasing fluidity of
movement, a greater sense of ease, as well as
increased alertness and energy.
Rolfing
typically begins with a series of ten, one hour
to one-and-a-half hour sessions (a week or two
apart) that are designed as a comprehensive
approach to integrating your entire body.
Special interventions to treat specific
injuries can often be accomplished in fewer
sessions, though the relief is not guaranteed to
last as long as the full ten series work.
Post-ten sessions provide you with an
ongoing way to mitigate the damaging effects of
stress, to enhance performance and to support a
wide variety of personal growth practices.
Today,
more than 1,500 certified Rolfing practitioners
are available throughout the world.
Only Certified Rolfers have the advanced
training and years of supervised practice it
takes to safely and knowledgeably employ Rolfing
techniques.
To learn more about how Rolfing may be
able to help you overcome physical limitations,
let go of chronic constrictions, and open a more
flexible ways of moving and encountering the
world, contact Tammy Limbach, Certified Rolfer
at 414-807-1141.
You can also search the Rolf
Institute’s international directory of
Certified Rolfers at www.rolf.org , or call at
800-530-8875.
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