Rolf movement has become an integral part of what Rolfing is, for the simple fact that in order to fully enable a more integrated being, something has to enable the integration of mind/body.
Rolf Movement provides a strategy that a Rolfer uses to navigate towards achieving biomechanical goals and integration.
Ultimately, all movement is a product of the nervous system and the connective tissue matrix; the autonomic nervous system is essentially the biodynamic dance between the parasympathetic/sympathetic branches or “Fight or flight” reflexes.
Rolf Movement works within the relationship between the tenets of gravity/structure, coordination/pre-movement, impression/perception, and expression/meaning, known as The Tonic Function Model, as a way to approach and evoke more desirable and efficient movement through sensation.
Movement manifests from a pre-movement or an automatic override response, which is an organic compound of a collective body of experiences acquired throughout life.
Corticalized movement is that which is done consciously or voluntarily; sub-cortical movement is sub-conscious, or involuntarily.
The position of a Rolf Movement Practitioner is to consider the premise of the structural differential that states that conventional phenomenal stimulus bombards the sensory division of the peripheral N.S., filtering into sensation before e-motion, belief, and finally expression.
This shift is nothing less than the potential sum total of a person’s symbolic imagery about himself and his world shifting and manifesting as potential uninhibited, dimensional, and supported movement.
This ability of the body is so very vital to movement.
These thickened pressurized fascial valves regulate and stabilize the flow of the fluid body and breath to foster or inhibit movement.
Keeping in mind effecting sensation can change the whole context or meaning of a movement allows the trained Rolfer to evoke a new resource for the client seeking more ease, which translates into less suffering in most cases.
French Rolfer and Rolf Movement Instructor Hubert Godard, is a dance and movement professor for the University of Paris, France, and is the primary contributor to what is known as the Tonic Function Model.
Rolfers can work within these relationships initiating changes in sensation to structure, coordination, perception, and meaning to evoke a shift in resource; changing sensation of any one or all of these can evoke the system to orientate to a new resource and ease of movement.
Simply bringing awareness and embodiment to specific areas of relationship coupled with a new sensation can promote a shift in ease or efficiency of movement.
Posture, or holding patterns can be indicative of movement patterns that have not utilized use of the gravity response system.
Gross and fine motor movement skill is obvious in some and elusive in others.
What counts in terms of success is knowing how to communicate these somewhat abstract concepts into digestible bite size bits of discernable data that someone can use to improve or master their movement.
Rolf Movement is not psychotherapy, although there is a psychology to everything we “Do”.
Rolfers and Rolf Movement Practitioners deal with fascia and the associated relationships with somatics.
Orthopedic, Chiropractic, Physical, and Massage Therapist recognize Certified Rolfing and Rolf Movement as premium pain management utilizing Structural, Functional, and Postural Integration.
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