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 […]
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 […]
Easing Shoulder Tensions
Shoulders Back! vs Shoulder Mobility. I see many clients including yoga practitioners with tight shoulders. Sometimes their shoulders are hiked up due to the stresses of life. Sometimes tensions are caused by a strong belief, perhaps due to military influence, that good posture is achieved by drawing the shoulders back. One can even see these […]
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. […]
Looking to ease tension in your legs? Don’t forget the Adductors, they’re ‘Everyone’s Friends’!
Rolfing for Easing tensions in the legs and free movements. If like many of us, you experience chronic tightness in your thigh muscles this post might help. Exercises for releasing the quadriceps, hamstrings and abductors are well known and can help. However often, these exercises alone are unlikely to fully release tension and give a […]
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 […]