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Rolfing and Hellerwork
One of Dr. Ida Rolf’s famous truisms about pain is “where it is, it aint”.
In other words when you feel stress-tension, or pain someplace in your body, structurally speaking, the actual cause is someplace altogether different. The site of the pain is invariably a compensatory rotation, compression, or both, causing the pain.
Dr. Rolf, after many years of practical application, trial, and error, understood how and why the body has an ideal balanced relationship with itself, gravity, and the ground.
Through her understanding, she developed a series of ten different sections of deep tissue bodywork to be delivered in a series of balancing bodywork sessions that changes the shape, thus the relationship of the entire musculo-skeletal system toward ideal balance.
This always creates more flexibility, range of motion, and energy in the body.
Joseph Heller was one of the first Rolfers, and the first president of the Rolf Institute.
In the early 1980’s, after years of fruitlessly campaigning with others at the Rolf Institute to expand the concept of Rolfing to include posture and movement with each session to accommodate the newly balanced body, Dr. Rolf gave Joseph her blessing to create Hellerwork. Hellerwork expanded on each of the structural integration sessions by adding a corresponding posture and movement aspect for each session, to further the benefits of the series.
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