By John Hayes


Dancers and practitioners of yoga tend to notice when their bodies feel out of alignment. They are people who tend to be in touch with their bodies. I can lay claim to such a self-awareness myself, having been a dancer most of my life. The article will lead us through the topic the new kid on rolfing therapy san diego in body and spine alignment.

However, the Structural Integration can be defined as a systematic approach that attempts to restore balance and alignment to the whole body for long lasting pain relief. Deep Tissue Massage is different from the other in that it tends to focus on techniques for each individual muscle strain, it is temporary relief, and does not address or release the system wide compensation patterns, or the root cause of your pain, dis-function, or "stress".

This method of body and spine alignment certainly has its share of superstar endorsements (Oprah being one of them). It certainly isn't new though - people first heard of this in the sports movie with Burt Reynolds from 1977 called Semi-Tough. Among those with whom yoga seems all been-there-done-that, the intenseness of the pain and the feeling of rightness involved in Rolfing is certainly drawing a fanatic following.

Rolfing treatment requires a specific number of sessions to work the entire body. Treatment consists of ten 60-90 minute sessions, spaced one to three weeks apart, depending on the client's needs. Each session strategically builds upon the other, and the results are cumulative even after the Ten Series process has ended.

Rolfing treatment can get very aggressive and very painful. If this seems not very different from what the chiropractors do, Rolfing involves the aggressive manipulation of the connective tissue (otherwise known in the lingo as the fascia) as opposed to the bones and the muscle that the chiropractors deal in. It has to be aggressive because the connective tissue can be really tough to manipulate.

Spinal alignment isn't the only benefit to this either. Patients report benefits to their blood pressure, and a drop in their body weight. The can achieve over a couple of sittings what yoga, physical treatment or anything else rarely achieve. And yet, it is seen not as an entirely new kind of treatment.

In Rolfing, systemic connective tissue patterns are lightly lengthened and loosened slowly-layer by layer, separating the layers that adhere to muscles that have been pulled out of position by strain or injury. Rolfing healing and education is also received in sitting and upright movement, which in terms help improve posture, flexibility, neural programming, self-awareness, coordination, and athletic performance.

We are now in a period of time where we have many great schools that are teaching some derivative of the Rolf Method of Structural Integration. Most schools refer to their graduates as Structural Integrators, but a few may have their own label or term. A good example of a language issue can be seen when we look at automobiles or cars. I remember my best friend's family and how they referred to their cars.




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