Why come to Rolfing?

The short answer is that everyone can benefit from Rolfing. Rolfing clients come from all walks of life. The following broad categories of clients are drawn to Rolfing.

ATHLETES
Athletes from all sporting codes, (athletics, cricket, rugby, soccer, etc.) seek out Rolfing to optimise their alignment and performance, solve recurring injuries and to prevent injuries.

SELF DEVELOPMENT PRACTITIONERS
Practitioners and teachers of yoga, martial arts, Pilates, chi gong, meditation and dance come to Rolfing to enhance their specific discipline. Rolfing not only aligns, it also activates core and intrinsic musculature which results in more fluid, graceful movements. It also differentiates and brings awareness to these structures so important in our movement expression. The positive effects on breathing mechanism enhance the practice of all these disciplines.

LIFE COACHES
People interested in optimising their lives such as life coaches, business coaches and people undergoing a personal coaching process, use Rolfing to actively and intelligently engage their kinaesthetic, body-as-lived-experience to enhance their own embodiment in the whole of their life.

PSYCHOLOGISTS
Psychologists, people undergoing psychotherapy or with an interest in discovering more of who they are.

INJURIES
People with aches and pains, old injuries, recurring injuries participate in Rolfing to realign their body and change the way they move, allowing strained areas to share their workload with the whole of the rest of the body, and lessening the overall amount of strain in their body. People with repetitive strain injuries, e.g. carpal tunnel syndrome.

SPINAL PROBLEMS
People with scoliosis, lordosis(swayback), kyphosis (rounded back and shoulders) come to Rolfing to help them ‘straighten out’ and become more comfortable.

BODY WORKERS
Body workers, massage therapists, physiotherapists, chiropractors, shiatsu practitioners, etc come to Rolfing to relieve the accumulated physical stress from their work, and to learn how to use their body more optimally to reduce stress while working in future.

PHYSICAL WORKERS
People whose work is physically demanding come to Rolfing to relieve strain and old aches and pains as well as the effects of old injuries.

BODY GROUNDING
Ecologists and other people working with the environment and sustainability, intuitively come to Rolfing to discover and ground the principles they work with in their own body.

SELF DISCOVERY
People working with people come to Rolfing to understand themselves and their clients better.

MUSICIANS
Musicians and students of music are attracted to Rolfing as it enhances breathing, optimises the technical aspects of playing an instrument, and enriches the emotional quality and expression of sound through the instrument.
See B. Anson, Rolfing: stories of personal empowerment

CHILDREN
Children often come to Rolfing with conditions like scoliosis, postural problems or alignment of feet.

ANIMALS
Even animals can be clients! Some Rolfers specialize in working with horses, helping to optimize their performance in racing and jumping. Even mountain lions, tortoises and birds of prey have been Rolfed successfully! (See Rolfing: Stories of Personal Empowerment, by Briah Anson.)

Uploaded 6 April 2008, www.rolfing.co.za, editor: Eugenie Grobler