Bio

My approach to Rolfing

First and foremost in my mind, Rolfing is a physical therapy. Most often, people are coming to Rolfing for issues with pain and I do my best to strike a balance between temporary relief or pain symptoms and longer-term relief of the issues creating pain. I often find that relieving a client's primary pain brings to light a number of lesser contributing pains that they were unaware of because of the primary. The more layers of disfunction are peeled back, the more people can become comfortable and strong in their bodies.

In a wider sense, I consider Rolfing to be a guided exploration for the client through his or her own body. Every body is different, so I aim to approach every session with a sense of questioning, looking for what a client needs rather than fitting them into a box. This can be range from simply alleviating aches and pains to exploring the mind/body connection and its effect on emotional and spiritual components of the client's life.

How I came to Rolfing

My interest in Rolfing started in 2005 when a friend was involved in a car accident. She had fairly intense shoulder pain afterwards that regular shoulder rubs, etc. could not alleviate. She was referred to a Rolfer and after 3 sessions was virtually pain-free. She thought I would be a good Rolfer, but at the time I was not in a place where I was ready to pursue such a drastic change from computer programming to bodywork.

Over the past 5 years I have developed a very strong interest in body mechanics through my participation in the Raleigh swing dancing scene. I have taught Lindy and East Coast Swing for the past 3 years and have a strong sense of movement and ability to analyze people's movements as a result.

I have spent a lot of time working on my posture for dance over the years and around the beginning of 2007 I had hit a point of diminishing returns. No matter how much I stretched it still meant a sustained effort to fully stand up straight, so I decided to try Rolfing. After my first session I was hooked and immediately felt that Rolfing was the career for me.

I completed the 2 of 3 units of training at the Rolf Institute in Boulder, Colorado between August 2007 and June 2008 then spent my last unit of training in Brazil in fall of 2008 where they teach a combined bodywork and movement education course.