Body in Practice Rolfing

I am excited to add some more availability and flexibility for you! 💫

Starting next week, I will am offering sessions on Tuesday mornings: 8:30am, 10:15am, 12pm.

See link in my bio to book. 📆 See you soon!

Honestly, the first thought when I saw this quotation was “Dang, that’s a lot of pressure! Not only do I have to keep my body healthy for myself but for the cosmos too?!”

Then I remembered that I have been conditioned to believe that a for a woman in America means: skinny, hungry, toned, plucked, waxed, small, etc. I’m sure each of us could fill in the blanks with what we’ve been conditioned to think healthy is.

What if, instead, just for today or even just for the next 2 minutes *healthy* = breathing, meeting yourself where you are, resting, calling a loved one, turning off the news, or even closing this app and going outside!

Let’s be kind to ourselves. That’s healthy to me.

p.s. I do love the message. We’re part of the cosmos. When we tend our plants and keep them healthy, it makes us feel good, right? Works both ways!

Photo ID: Quote over a forest photo background that reads: “Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos--the trees, the clouds, everything.” Said by Thich Nhat Hanh.

Washington State recently “reopened.” On top of the normal frenetic, excited energy of summer, I can feel both the desire to expand, be social, go out, alongside the trepidation of removing the protective shells we’ve necessarily built around ourselves over the last year+. Not to mention those of us who don’t feel safe, or have health conditions that make emerging from the pandemic extremely complicated, if not impossible.

Our Rolfing sessions can be particularly helpful during this moment to , calming and balancing the whole of you to feel energized to pursue whatever level of “reopen” you feel comfortable with!

Body in Practice Rolfing is considered a healthcare setting in WA. Therefore, we’ll continue to mask-up for the foreseeable future, even if we’re both fully vaccinated. Safety is our community responsibility.
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Rolfers have jokes too! 😄
Today is Dr. Rolf’s birthday. These images are of her working at nearly 80 years old!
I feel a lot of ways about Dr. Rolf. I respect her as a woman who earned her Biochemistry PhD from Columbia in the 1920s(!), and who then gave birth to her own system of bodywork. But like many historical figures, there are unsavory stories about her that problematize her legacy.
For some time she didn’t want to train women because they weren’t strong enough or their hands were too small. An article written in the past year quotes her as saying Rolfers shouldn’t bother working on African Americans. Her ideas about how a body “should” be presuppose an ideal based on ideas.
I am uneasy about gurus in any context. I have colleagues that have photos of Dr. Rolf in their office. Her face watches over each classroom at the Rolf Institute. While some believe we should practice Rolfing as she created it, as a scientist I think she would have wanted us to respond to new information about fascia, the nervous system, etc.
This is a brief example/distillation of a complex issue. But when people ask me about the history of Rolfing, we have to be honest about how her ideas filter into our present and our practices. We have to liberate ourselves from the “ideally” and the “shoulds” and the “normals.”
So, to all the people out there that have figureheads they have mixed feelings about, I’m right there with you. To my clients, know that your body has an inherent strength and order--and that’s the legacy of Dr. Rolf I choose to share with you in our .