Now launching a brand new Rolfing® Practice in Newtown!!
To promote this new venture, I am offering all Ausdance members a discounted rate for a three session series or ten series of Rolfing®
Contact me at 0406 006 204 or by email at soundbodysomatics@gmail.com to schedule a session in Newtown or St Leonards. Both practices are close to the train station.
What is Rolfing?
Rolfing is a strategic and holistic system of manual therapy and movement education that works with restrictions in tissue and inhibitions in coordination to organize the body in gravity creating the potential for more functional movement patterns.
More information about Structural Integration and Fascia:
Connective tissue or fascia creates continuity throughout the body as it wraps every muscle, nerve and organ and makes up all tendon, ligament and bone. It is organized (or disorganized) in response to gravity, our habitual movement patterns, strain, emotional tension and trauma. With slow and gentile pressure that is applied both strategically and mindfully after a body reading, we can balance the tonus of the fascia thereby assisting the body to achieve greater ease in function, comfort and vitality.
Rolfing® is the popular name for Structural Integration bodywork. The basic series consists of ten sessions. In a series of sessions we are working not only with the connective tissue but also with rhythms of respiration and gait. We also educate the client in ways of using the new possibilities through perceptual movement education. Each Rolfing® session builds upon the results of the previous one, so that the results are cumulative. The first seven sessions remove strain from specific areas of the body: the lower back, neck, knees, etc. the remaining sessions organize and align the body as a whole, resulting in better balance, enhanced freedom of movement, and a higher energy level. It is also possible to do a one-off session or a series of three sessions and still get many benefits from the work.
Rolfing® can help with physical performance as it breaks up adhesions, improves range of motion and alignment. It is particularly useful for the overuse patterns of dancers. You can increase movement potential and energy when you are not doing so much battle with gravity in maintaining the verticality of your structure. Rolfing® also helps with stress and pain management. The process increases body awareness which can have a wonderful effect on how you relate to your environment both inside and out.
Angela Hill is a Certified Rolfer™, Rolf Movement Practitioner™, somatic therapist and movement educator. She has a BFA in dance education and a background of fifteen years as a dancer, choreographer and teacher of movement to people of all ages and abilities. Angela has been practicing manual therapy for the last five years. She studied Rolfing® in Boulder, Colorado, Sydney, Australia and Barra do Sahy, Brazil with the top international Rolfing® faculty. She has trained in the Hakomi Method of Experiential Psychotherapy which supports the mind-body aspect of her work. Angela’s approach is also informed by her experience with other modalities such as Ideokinesis, Body-Mind-Centering, Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Contact Improvisation, Shiatsu, Yoga and Energetic Healing.
Her philosophy is that our many layers of being - structural, functional, emotional and energetic can come into better resonance and alignment when we can be present in our bodies, integrating both past experiences with new possibilities.
“Behind every tension is a belief.”
Ron Kurtz, Founder
The Hakomi Method of Experiential Psychotherapy
“The way you walk across a room is the way you walk through life.”
Dr. Ida P. Rolf, Founder
The Rolfing Method of Structural Integration
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