Rolfing: Meeting yourself

Rolfing is a change process, best encountered when curious about changing, or maybe even in dire need of change in body and soul.

Changing patterns of holding in the body and routine ways of using the body can release energy and grow the potential for far-reaching change in life.

Interrupting a pattern could be increasing awareness of feet through releasing held tissue allowing more weight to come through the body to the ground and awakening the feet to become more palpatory and alive. There is a combination of tissue work and perceptual awareness, a deep brain re-education of sorts. This could evoke a slowing down when walking, noticing body engaging with the ground and earth; perhaps even we start to notice that we are always fundamentally in a rush.

Inquiries open up, perhaps around a narrative of "why am I ..."? Questions might arise - am I running away from something or running to something? How would it be to just be here in my feet, legs, belly, walking?

Perhaps as part of the inquiry behaviour shifts, it becomes easier to take time to be with every step, maybe our surroundings begin to speak more to us.

Unbidden, a memory might arise, uncomfortable, tissues start to tremble or shake at its uninvited arrival.

Courage!

We use resources - feel feet, connect with breath, with sky. Trembling might intensify or not. The memory diminishes, changes somehow, and we can hold it gently whilst held by our resources. We tenderly hold space for releasing and deeper shifts.

As a Rolfer I'm accompanying clients on a small part of their journeys - helping clients to find, broaden and deepen reources of support, centering and lightening of load, alongside helping them realise the courage they have to keep re-finding and remembering resource alongside release of sensations which can feel huge.

Whether release occurs in the Rolfing room or elsewhere, fundamentally courage is requiried to keep meeting yourself over and over again. This repattening starts to create long-lasting change.