WHAT IS ROLFING ?
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Get to Know Us
Rolfing® is Structural Integration, a bodywork modality that helps you reconnect with your body and encourages you to find the potential within. Our goal is to help you to discover the resources that already exist within you, through manual manipulation and practice, you learn to use those to create lasting changes in your body and life.
We specialize in helping you to release old patterns of tension, pain, and postural imbalances so that you can find your way to a more balanced and vibrant life. Come explore the possibilities of what you can become with Root & Rise Rolfing®.
ABOUT HAVEN
My Story
I learned about Rolfing® when I was in high school and had a session during volleyball season. During the session, I quickly found that Rolfing® had been just the thing I had been longing for. The practitioner talked to me about what it was that I experienced in my body, as though I was the authority, which I had never experienced in quite the same way. When she worked on my low back and hips, it was deep work that felt like each spot she touched was "the spot". I likened it to the feeling -when you attempt to work on yourself, how you can get so precisely on it, but there is always a cranking or a compromising of another part of your body that makes it feel like its adding new ache as you try to find ease- only with Rolfing® there isn't that compromise.
After graduating high school I had briefly considered becoming a Rolfer™ but had always been eager to go to college. So after a gap year traveling and waiting tables. I attended Lewis and Clark College. I was pursuing a Sociology and Anthropology degree to follow my passion for observing and attempting to understand the complexities of the human experience. I was studying abroad in the Spring of 2020 and got pulled home amidst the chaos of the pandemic. I had to finish that semester online and struggled through it, as listening during class had always been my strong suit. I decided that online classes for private school tuition didn't feel like a choice I wanted to make and began to explore who I was if I wasn't a student, while I reconsidered what direction to go. I was living in Portland and working a retail job that allowed me lots of time to explore my personal practice. I took an online meditation course, then I took it again before taking the advanced class and repeating it as well. I started running with an entirely different energy than I had ever approached it with before. In the past, I had mostly run because I had to or because I thought I should. When running became an exploratory/meditative experience I fell in love with letting my legs swing. It was around then that I remembered Rolfing®.
When I went to apply to the Institute, I discovered that my path to becoming a Rolfer™ was kismet. I would not have been able to apply right out of high school, 60 college credits were required. Conveniently aligned, at the time I went to apply, I had 64.
EXPERIENCE
My Qualifications
Graduate of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute®
May 2022
Completed 731 hours of training at the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute® in Boulder, CO.
FOUNDER, ROOT & RISE ROLFING®
May 2023 - Present
Obtained an Oregon Massage License to practice Rolfing® Structural Integration. I have such a passion for this work and wanted to offer it to this community that I love so dearly. Challenging myself to open a person practice rather than work for someone else, was to show myself and others possibility and expansion present in all of us.