Rolfing
Release the tension in your muscles to help realign and provide lasting stability to a body.
Rolfing Colorado Springs
What is Rolfing?
In short, Rolfing is a hands-on healing modality which corrects posture and offers pain relief by releasing the tension in the connective tissues that surround the muscles to align and provide lasting stability to the body.
How does Rolfing Work?
Rolfing uses physical pressure (with hands and fingers) to lengthen and return the entire body’s connective tissue to its original symmetry and balance. This whole-body treatment is necessary in order to enable the changes to be integrated throughout.
The aim is to achieve the optimal alignment for that person that gives a lasting stability, with no need for constant return visits.
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What clients have to say
"I have recently finished the 10 session Rolfing treatment with Dick Larson. I am very pleased with what resulted. Instead of my legs toeing out when I walk or stand, I now can walk naturally straight ahead. My balance is much improved. My shoulders now are lower and set further back rather than being rounded and right. My whole system is less tense and much looser."
S.P.
"I must extend my sincere gratitude for your talent and skills. Your insights and helpful hints on sitting, standing, body awareness, etc. were as helpful as the actual Rolfing, or maybe even more so. I also said I knew you were the person to trust! …. I was right."
E.C
"Rolfing with the ten session series proved to be a most remarkable transforming bodywork for myself, especially being a massage therapist. I highly recommend the Rolfing treatment. Chronic pain patterns I had for years disappeared. Rolfing with Dick Larson is a foundation for life. It changed my life."
R.L
K.K
January 18, 2022
What to Expect during your Rolfing Sessions
Rolfing is performed in a series of ten distinct sessions, each an hour to an hour and a quarter long. Dr. Larson uses physical pressure (with hands and fingers) to lengthen and return the body’s connective tissue to its original symmetry and balance.
Does Rolfing hurt?
It shouldn't. Much of the reputation for pain came from the early days when Rolfing was first gaining public recognition. Practitioners were a bit “over-zealous”, and techniques were crude (heavy-handed) by today’s standards. Since that time, the process has evolved significantly. More refined methods have been found, allowing the same or often better results to be achieved without the intense discomfort.
Frequently tissue does not really need much pressure to change; rather it is the practitioner’s sensitivity to what is going on in the tissue and the ability to respond appropriately that is necessary.
What should I wear to a Rolfing session?
Please come for your session in appropriate attire: for men, boxer shorts or briefs. For women: a sports bra and full coverage underwear.
It is important for me to be able to see your physical structure and the changes that occur to it during the session, but is also important for you to feel comfortable during the session.
Please wear what you feel is appropriate; my years of experience permit me to adjust to whatever allows you to feel at ease.
Frequently Asked Questions
YES! Photographs taken of clients years after the Basic Ten Series show that changes are still present and structure is enhanced. The basic series addresses patterns of tension and restriction accumulated in your body since childhood, including past injuries and their many compensations. Fortunately, you won’t recreate that history again.
And indeed, your body, having been Rolfed, continues to improve. Your body’s shape and condition are constantly being maintained and recreated by its movement patterns. If the movement patterns are imbalanced and restricted, they will continue to break down the structure (typical degeneration attributed to “getting older”). After Rolfing, the movement patterns begin to improve and re-create a balanced structure. Through the improved movement patterns made possible by a more flexible and free structure, the Rolfing continues after the 10 sessions have been completed.
Is there scientific proof about Rolfing?
YES! Rolfing has been studied scientifically several times, with very positive results (more studies are currently ongoing). One example is a five year study conducted by Dr. Valerie Hunt and Dr. Wayne Massey at the UCLA Department of Kinesiology, called “A Study of Structural Integration from Neuromuscular, Energy Field and Emotional Approaches”. There were measurements before and after Rolfing of anxiety states, brain hemisphere activity, energy field photography, DC recordings of energy flow in electrical voltage readings, EMG recordings from sixteen separate muscles, electromyograms of neuromuscular patterning of energy, and electronic auric field study.
This study produced many results, difficult to briefly summarize. These are a few of the outstanding results:
- Greater physical skill
- Greater movement efficiency
- Improved neuromuscular balance
- Emotional calmness; decrease in anxiety state
- Improved social interaction
- Feelings of well being
- Better memory recall
- Enhanced ability to access different states of consciousness
- Increasing right hemisphere brain dominance when needed for right brain activity
- Positive changes in ways of processing data and the nature of thought processes that ensue
- More energy; less fatigue
- Greater energy flow and balanced distribution of energy
Have more questions? Please feel free to get in touch so we can answer any specific questions you have about Rolfing.