Are you struggling to balance? Rolfing can help to improve balance and spatial orientation. The vestibular system or inner ear, is a sensory system that creates the sense of balance and spatial orientation. It consists of three semi circular canals and otolithes which detect rotational movements and linear accelerations. Certain common habits have the effect of […]
Principles of Good Work Sitting Posture
These are easy to follow principles of good work sitting posture. Now observe your body sensations, does the posterior compartment of your pelvic floor, your coccyx area feel spacious? Does your spine give you support? Your sitting position should be comfortable, however keep in mind that the human body is designed for movements, not for […]
Chavutti Massage – An Extraordinary Holistic Experience
Chavutti Thirumal massage is massage by foot pressure. It is characterised by exceptional long fluid strokes from neck to toes. The arches and curves of the foot matching perfectly the contours of the body, as if the foot had been designed for giving massage, allow a full body deep tissue experience that other massages rarely […]
Tennis Ready Position: Support versus Compression
In the men’s Wimbledon tennis final today one could notice two champions with two very different ‘ready positions’. Novak Djokovic was flexing at the knee and hip joints keeping his spine neutral while Nick Kyrgios was flexing his spine. Who do you think gets more structural support from his spine and more support from the ground? Who […]
Rolfing for Contact Sport Practitioners and Battered Bodies
Has your body been battered by years of intensive contact sport practice? Rolfing can help. Here’s a testimonial from a client who played Rugby at high level: ‘I am 64 years old and I was battered by contact sport for more than 50 years. Bending, stretching, rotating and all round flexibility is a serious challenge. […]
Walking like a Lion: Decompressing the Hip Joints and Spine
Rolfing for lengthening the body and decompressing the hip joints and the spine. For us humans, being bipedal brings great benefits. However, it also comes with a biomechanical challenge, that is to avoid shortening and compressing the body in our daily activities, particularly in the spine and at the hip joints. Over the years, as we […]
Somatic Meditation on Friendship (Kindness)
A Somatic Meditation on Friendship (Kindness). “We enjoy meeting with good friends, being with them makes us feeling good and happy. It’s easy to notice the feeling of happiness, but how about noticing the body sensations associated with the feeling? Our feelings are seeded within our bodies, so how does it feel in the body […]
Improve Posture with Rolfing
Improving posture with Rolfing Structural Integration. This client is in her early sixties. She had her neck forward, a rounded upper back and hyper-extending knees, which caused knee strain and discomfort. The ‘After’ photo was taken after seven Rolfing® sessions. We can see postural improvements, her neck is less forward, her upper back less rounded […]
Rolfing for Scoliosis
Rolfing for scoliosis: Scoliosis is a condition in which a person’s spine has sideways curves; The symptoms can include feeling unbalanced and stiffness or tightness in the back; This client who is in her fifties had scoliosis since childhood; In one Rolfing session I used gentle Rolfing manipulation techniques to ease tensions in the connective […]
Buttock Pain and Scoliosis
Buttock pain keeps coming back ? In Rolfing Structural Integration we look farther afield. The piriformis muscle is conventionally described as a hip rotator as it turns the leg and foot outward, but it does more. When the thigh is free to move (when we lift a leg off the floor), indeed contracting the piriformis […]