You know your body needs attention
You're not moving like you once did. Maybe you're weaker, even slouching. Or there's pain, even debilitating pain.
You might be beyond frustrated, even ashamed. But mostly you feel stuck.
You tell yourself exercise can help but life is busy and you just don't do it. You've even explored things like chiropractic, physical therapy, a few kinds of body worker, or yoga.
Maybe you get temporary relief, but the aching muscles and joint tension inevitably returns. Is there anything that can help you make sense of it all?
Helping people struggling with chronic pain and restriction in their movement, who want true freedom and comfort in their bodies again.
Testimonial about working with Liesje as a practitioner.
“Your use of the term ‘being met’ gives me the idea that this somatic work is unwinding through an exploration resonates with me very deeply. I want to meet myself and give myself permission to be and also to express”
-Diane West
How Rolfing works
Using Rolfing, I help you transform your posture, chronic pain, tension, and movement by slowly manipulating the connective tissue-a whole body structure network- that attaches muscle to bone; thereby supporting bones to move back toward natural alignment with the force of gravity and helps the whole body to work a lot better.
I can effectively teach you how to work with gravity, also by sensing into coordination of movement. Rather than thinking gravity is a heavy weight that you have to contract away from, you’ll start to feel how better alignment in gravity lengthens your muscles and bones. Your bones feel energized and your muscles are more comfortably free. This means, you’ll save energy and avoiding injuries.
This approach brings a lot of positive results because once you have your body is in better working order, your emotions and thinking become more clear and adaptable and you feel more confidently connected with what’s happening around you.
Finally, the tips you learn about movement can be applied to any physical activity you like to do, whether it’s football, swimming , biking, acrobatics or tai chi. You’ll move considerably better because your body will be in a balanced working order.
Living in Gravity
You might not yet have thought much about gravity, but have you ever noticed that without your feet pushing into the floor, there’s no walking? Or have you noticed that when you hear someone call for you, your head reaches an out toward the sound? That's the power of gravity. In my practice, we work together to unwind patterns that get stuck in not being able to fully express that push or that reach..... and find new ways to be in your body so it works for you.
In our local communities, we have health care providers who specialize in helping us with our body and therapists who help us with our mind, or sometimes we say, ….with our life.
But isn’t Life more than our relational issues? Isn’t Life about learning how to Live with Aliveness?
Have you actually found a bodywork system that can both rebalance your connective tissue to align muscles to bone while also helps you through movement to awaken to what actually holds us together; the force of gravity and our senses?
Rolfing, Structural Integration is about connecting your body and your attention to the Environment; it’s truly wholistic, as are we.. I’m here to help you come to understand that your body needs wholistic attention if it’s going to function well.
Dr. Ida P. Rolf wisely said, “Gravity is the therapist.”
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