Is Rolfing “deep tissue therapy”, or “myofascial therapy”?
Currently more and more manual therapists work with fascia. “Deep tissue work”, “myofascial release” and “myofascial therapy”, and “neuromuscular” therapies are a few of the names given to such work. What distinguishes Rolfing is not the medium in which we work but the goals of our work – organizing the body in gravity. Releasing tight tissue is a method we use, but not the goal itself. We look at you body and your structure as a whole and focus our work with that goal in mind. Our goal is a balanced body that functions in an easier and more efficient way allowing you a richer experience of life. Ida Rolf was influenced by chiropractic and osteopathy as it existed in the earlier 1900’s in developing her work. What she took away from this influence was the chiropractic observation that structure (your form) determines function (how you feel, how well your body works). Traditional chiropractic has had as its focus the skeletal system. She was most interested in the system of fascia – she
