Optimize Performance

With the assistance of Structural Integration, also known as Rolfing, to reduce or eliminate physical ailments, imbalances, weaknesses, etc., an individual can put more attention and energy towards optimizing one's performance in order to achieve his or her life goals. This clarity of intention and action, without the distractions of the structural somatic body, can be applied to any dimension of performance whether professional, personal, family, business, creative, service, etc.

Rolfing [Structural Integration] brings the human form into a higher structure, one which all humans have the potential to obtain, in which all aspects of life (physiological, mechanical, emotional, and spiritual) function at their optimum. - Don Johnson
The Protean Body: A Rolfer's
View of Human Flexibility

Human bodies are open-ended systems which are able to grow and assimilate new information in order to evolve and meet the demands of the challenges we face in life. By helping to eliminate the static of a discordant body, Structural Integration (Rolfing) can help an individual identify, obtain, and maintain one's focus in life.

Examples of the various domains where Structural Integration (Rolfing) can support a person in optimizing one's performance in order to achieve his or her goals are as follows:

Professionals

Often, people committed to a career have difficulty maintaining a healthy balanced lifestyle with proper exercise, diet, and rest. Structural Integration (Rolfing) can be a very efficient medium for balancing, opening, and toning the body to help reduce fatigue, ease stress and promote well being.

Surgeons, Dentists, Technicians, Designers, etc.

Because of the restricted and demanding postural and movement patterns required by their professions, these practitioners can find their careers compromised or ending as a result of the physical pain and discomfort they experience in their bodies. Structural Integration (Rolfing) can help to open and balance the patterns of imbalance, tightness, and the energetic blockages brought on by the demands of their work.

Mechanics, Equipment Operators, Tradesmen, Farmers, Ranchers, Laborers, etc.

Those involved with physically demanding occupations can use Structural Integration (Rolfing) to help promote and maintain the strength, flexibility, and vitality they need for their work.

Dancers, Musicians, Artists, Teachers, Therapists, Body Workers, etc.

By enhancing openness, flexibility, and balance within the body, Structural Integration can support these artists and teachers to more effectively use their body as a tool in the expression of their art.

Facilitators, Advisors, Coaches, Counselors, Therapists, etc.

Structural Integration can support the therapeutic, coaching, or facilitation process by providing a body centered therapy and educational experience as a compliment to the primary process. For example, a sunken chest is often the physical expression of depression, or lower back pain can be the somatic reflection of one who is overwhelmed by life. As the body opens, the emotions tends to flow, surface, and be expressed more readily. This can help to deepen the therapeutic process. Likewise, as emotions are processed, Structural Integration (Rolfing) can help clients ground and integrate their new experiences and revelations into their physical selves.

The Elderly and Aging Population

As people enjoy the opportunity to live longer, new demands are placed on the body's structure to remain healthy, functional, and active into the golden decades. Under the constant force of gravity, older bodies tend to shorten, collapse, and lose strength along with flexibility. This leads to a loss of a sense of balance, both in posture and movement, which results in the many catastrophic falls suffered by the elderly. By promoting postural and movement awareness, along with opening, lengthening, and balancing the body, Structural Integration (Rolfing) can help support one to have a qualitative aging process based on self-empowerment.