What is Rolfing?

Rolfing® Structural Integration — An Approach Toward the Whole Human Being

before/afterA human being is more than a collection of parts. There is a pattern, an order, in human bodies. That pattern–how parts fit and work together as a whole–is a basic factor in well being or its lack.

Rolfing structural integration 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 and ease.

As in all matter organized into biological units, there is a pattern, an order, in human bodies Rolfers make a life study of relating bodies and their fields to the earth and its gravity field, and we so organize the body that the gravity field can reinforce the body’s energy field. — Dr. Ida P. Rolf


For information about Rolfing in your community, contact or write to:

Michael Vilain
Palo Alto, CA 94303
650-322-6755
or write to
The Rolf Institute

5055 Chaparral Court, Suite 103
Boulder, CO 80301
800-530-8875
info@rolf.org