Rolfing changed the way I approach bodies and endeavor to put them back together.

When someone has a pain: it very, very rarely starts with the thing that hurts. That pain is coming from some other source, some root, and this is the leaf on its branch so to speak.

Generally speaking, there are two ways I look at bodies: the front to back model, and the bottom to top model.

The front to back: the back is what I call an area of compensation. It responds to the forces exerted upon it from the front. When the front of the body gets tight, short, compressed, etc, the back bears the brunt.

The bottom to top: we are a stack of regions; what happens on the bottom of the stack sets the stage for what’s above it. Our feet are how we meet the earth; if our feet are out of alignment, you can expect some aberration to show up in the legs somewhere; this will then reflect in the pelvis; the pelvis is crucial to the spine and everything above it.

In Rolfing, we address both. We will look to the ways the front of your body is impacting your back; and we will look for things happening on the south that have then traveled their way north.