Interview

Interview | Sabine Becker
In this interview, Stephanie Aimée Poole speaks with sports scientist and Certified Rolfer® Jakob Reichardt about myofascia and the connection between Rolfing® Structural Integration and strength training.
Interview | Sabine Becker
Markus Rossmann is a Certified Rolfer® and fascial training expert. With a background in sports science...
Interview | Sabine Becker
Marion Reiff, former Olympic high diver, is now a successful Pilates trainer and Certified Rolfer®. In this interview, she reveals...
Interview | Sabine Becker
Professional athlete Marion Reiff looks back on a seventeen-year career as a 10m platform diver. In this interview, she talks about the challenges competitive sports places on the body...
Interview | Sabine Becker
Discover Rolfing® through the eyes of two dedicated practitioners, Åsa Åhman and Louise Almgren. As passionate advocates of holistic health, they are committed to bringing more Rolfers® to Sweden.
Interview | Sabine Becker
I first learned about Rolfing during my acting studies at Falckenberg-Schule Munich. My dance teacher [...] was convinced Rolfing would be a great opportunity to experience the deep potential of an actor’s body.
Interview | Ali
To convey text or message, the expressive presence of an actor's or singer's body and voice is essential.
Interview | Ali
Why did you decide to study Rolfing®?I am a dancer and I wanted to do something that combined my love of movement and of body so that I could make a further career. I had met a Rolfer when I moved to Berlin about 7 years ago and he worked on my ribs to work on my hip.
Interview | Ali
My name is Michael Kellenberger, I`m a certified Advanced Rolfer®, Rolf Movement™ Practitioner and as well a former dancer and choreographer.
Interview | Ali
Dancers are interested in the process of Rolfing® because it provides them with a different experience of their body than their daily training. They regain circulation, flexibility, fluidity, lightness and confidence that they can integrate into their technical and artistic work.
Interview | Ali
Describe how Ida’s words have inspired your work and life… ‘In the last 30 years of being a Rolfer, I learnt that I really can trust gravity, in different ways. First of all, as the only force I know which has a predicable direction.
Interview | Ali
Describe how Ida’s words have inspired your work and life… ‘I was first introduced to Ida’s words as a graduate student in dance.
Interview | Ali
Describe how Ida’s words have inspired your work and life… ‘I was Rolfed in my 20s and I started to be a practitioner at the age of 23. So, I can see that Rolfing has accompanied me from the beginning of my adulthood until now and it has been a magnificent journey.
Interview | Ali
Describe how Ida’s words have inspired your work and life… ‘Since I had met a traffic accident at Junior high, I felt always unbalanced with a strained back every year. Before becoming a Rolfer, I worked at the Pharmaceutical institute as a research worker.
Interview | Ali
Describe how Ida’s words have inspired your work and life… ‘I met Ida Rolf by reading her book ‘Rolfing’ for example. And by reading the book, I knew that that was exactly what I was looking for.
Interview | Ali
Describe how Ida’s words have inspired your work and life… ‘For me, it was when I met the concept of structure that Ida had the strongest effect on my life.
Interview | Ali
Describe how Ida’s words have inspired your work and life… ‘Receiving the Rolfing sessions has been a deep trust formative experience for me. At that time, I was already working in the field, I was using Mézières method.
Interview | Ali
Describe how Ida’s words have inspired your work and life… ‘I came to Rolfing, like many people, because of back pain. I was a dancer at the time, and I needed to get out of that pattern of stuck pain and to increase my possibilities of movement.
Interview | Ali
Describe how Ida’s words have inspired your work and life… ‘Rolfing has been part of my life since I was a child and as an adult, a Rolfer and a teacher of Rolfing and Rolf Movement Integration, I have a great joy of living with Dr Ida Rolf’s work every day of my life.
Interview | Ali
Describe how Ida’s words have inspired your work and life… ‘Before I became a Rolfer, I was an Engineer and worked a lot with technical things.
Interview | Ali
Describe how Ida’s words have inspired your work and life… ‘Hi, my name is Phoenix DeLeón and I am a Faculty member at the Dr Ida Rolf Institute in Boulder, Colorado in the US and I wanted to say a little bit about how Dr Ida Rolf has inspired me with her words.
Interview | Ali
Describe how Ida’s words have inspired your work and life… ‘The words of Ida Rolf have inspired me on a private level especially when I think back about the time when I was studying music as a Violinist and her work has inspired me to play the Violin differently.
Interview | Ali
Describe how Ida’s words have inspired your work and life… ‘I was first inspired by Dr Rolf before I even knew who she was. Actually, I was inspired by the effects of the work that she created. Receiving Rolfing made such a profound impact on me that it changed the course of my life.

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