In addition to the Rolfing I received while a student in training, I have also been Rolfed professionally. Since then I have never had a sore back or neck. Rolfing is one of the best things I have ever done for my body.

I have been Rolfed several times since, mostly to finish the development that began in the ten-week series. My body loves it – but not just my body. My awareness also grows with each session.

I remember back when I was still in the Rolfing class and one of the other students was working on my psoas muscle. As soon as he touched me there, I began screaming. At first I thought I was screaming from the pain, but then I had an image of myself as a little boy standing at the back door of our old house. I was naked, with my clothes in my hands, and my mother was freaked out and yelling at me. The screaming that I was doing in the class was the anger I had felt at my mother then but had been too afraid to express. It had been held in my psoas muscle ever since.
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The last time I went to a professional Rolfer, I wanted help with the leftover trauma from the sciatica I’d had when my father died. Although the pain was long gone, I still felt some discomfort. My leg felt as if it had been twisted, probably by me trying to avoid the pain. Also, my big toe was still numb. My Rolfer worked on me then for four or five more sessions. There was more to it than my leg and big toe. I had compensated for the pain by twisting my entire body. He had to begin the healing process from my center.

At first I didn’t feel any major improvement, but one day, several months later, I realized that my toe hadn’t been numb or sore for awhile. I didn’t know exactly when it had gotten better. It had happened slowly over time. Today I can stand solidly on my own two feet again. Today I feel balanced and whole in my body.

Rolfing, like acid, by working directly on body, works indirectly on consciousness too. Healing the one-sidedness of my body has also helped heal the one-sidedness of my consciousness.