Rolfing promotes well being by enhancing the body's pattern of
organization. It balances the body in gravity and enables
participants to function at successively higher levels of
efficiency, coordination, movement, balance, strength,
flexibility, and ease. Rolfing is the name given to the system
of body manipulation originated by Dr. Ida P. Rolf, PhD in
biochemistry. Dr. Rolf had a child who had a health problem, and
searched for a way, outside of conventional medicine, to solve
it. She went to work on the child with her hands and with a good
measure of success, discovered that she could restore the
child's body to a more balanced shape and alignment, ease of
movement, by working with the connective tissue in the body.
This evolved, then, into working on friends, and friends of
friends, until she had quite a reputation for being able to
"fix" things for people in their bodies. As a scientist she had
the insight that gravity is a force constantly at work in the
body either maturing it towards organization, ali