Interview

Sports scientist, boxer, and Certified Rolfer® Jakob Reichardt
More Strength, Less Pain? How Rolfing® and Strength Training Work Together
Interview | Sabine Becker
An interview with Sports scientist and Certified Rolfer® Jakob Reichardt, Munich - Germany In this interview, Certified Rolfer® Stephanie Aimée Poole speaks with Jakob Reichardt about myofascia and the connection between Rolfing® Structural Integration and strength training. In addition to his work…
Markus Rossmann: Certified Rolfer® and fascial training expert.
Fascial Training x Rolfing®: A Success Story
Interview | Sabine Becker
An interview with Certified Rolfer® Markus Rossmann   Markus Rossmann is a Certified Rolfer® and fascial training expert. With a background in sports science and a career ranging from working in rehab clinics and on cruise ships to international coaching, he has combined Rolfing® Structural…
How Rolfing® training revolutionises Pilates training
Rolfing® meets Pilates: How a different view of the body is revolutionising training
Interview | Sabine Becker
An interview with Olympic high diver Marion Reiff Marion Reiff, former Olympic high diver, is now a successful Pilates trainer and Certified Rolfer®. In this interview, she reveals how Rolfing® Structural Integration enriches her work and why she recommends Pilates trainers to learn about Rolfing…
Rolfing® Has Helped Me Learn Alternative Movement Patterns
Rolfing® Has Helped Me Learn Alternative Movement Patterns
Interview | Sabine Becker
An interview with Olympic diver Marion Reiff Professional athlete Marion Reiff looks back on a seventeen-year career as a 10m platform diver. As a competitive athlete in the Austrian Army, she competed at a world-class level.  She met her obligation to deliver good results for years by achieving…
Exploring the Benefits of Rolfing® Training
Exploring the Benefits of Rolfing® Training
Interview | Sabine Becker
An Interview with Åsa Åhman and Louise Almgren, Certified Advanced Rolfers® from Stockholm, Sweden Discover Rolfing® Structural Integration through the eyes of two dedicated practitioners, Åsa Åhman and Louise Almgren. As passionate advocates of holistic health, they have made it their mission to…
Rolfing® can help actors express their art through their body
Rolfing® can help actors express their art through their body
Interview | Sabine Becker
By Eike Jon AhrensAs an actor, what led you to try Rolfing®?I first learned about Rolfing during my acting studies at Falckenberg-Schule Munich. My dance teacher brought it to our school as an extra try-out programme. Every student received a full 10-Session series of Rolfing. She was convinced…
An Opera's Singers experience with Rolfing® by France Hatt-Arnold
An Opera's Singers experience with Rolfing®
Interview | Ali
To convey text or message, the expressive presence of an actor's or singer's body and voice is essential. Working on fascias enhances body availability, to vary the possibilities of expression games, and Rolfing Movement™ helps to harmonise the coordination of movements, confirming the agility of…
Certified Rolfer® and Dancer, Evan, explains why he decided to study Rolfing® and his experience at the Dr Ida Rolf Institute® Europe.
Why Certified Rolfer® and Dancer, Evan, decided to study Rolfing®
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. I remember being so confused…
Rolfing® can help you gain a much deeper knowledge in how the body moves
Why, as a dancer, I became a Rolfer® by Michael Kellenberger
Interview | Ali
My name is Michael Kellenberger, I`m a certified Advanced Rolfer®, Rolf Movement™ Practitioner and as well a former dancer and choreographer.As a dancer, why did you decide to become a Rolfer?I became a certified Rolfer in 2006. Before I danced as freelance dancer and choreographer doing my own…
How Rolfing can benefit Dancers
A Dancer's experience with Rolfing by France Hatt-Arnold
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. Because the…
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Jörg Ahrend-Löns
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Jörg Ahrend-Löns
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. So, this is something which is important for the orientation of…
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Rebecca Carli-Mills
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Rebecca Carli-Mills
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. I had not yet been Rolfed nor had I ever met a Rolfer, but I was inspired then and now, 37 years later I continue to be inspired, by the concept of gravity as central…
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with France Hatt-Arnold
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with France Hatt-Arnold
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. I cannot more agree with what…
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Hiroyoshi Tahata
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Hiroyoshi Tahata
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. My first Rolfing helped me a lot,…
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Pierpaola Volpones
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Pierpaola Volpones
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. For example, when I read the feet, the first challenge, it was different from any other manual. So, I…
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Pedro Prado
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Pedro Prado
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. Because I was going from the phycological field, bodywork approach, holistic prospective, body/mind reasoning that when the concept of…
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Pedro Prado
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Rita Geirola
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. That is a technique that addresses the physical structure of the body and…
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Valerie Berg
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Valerie Berg
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. The Rolfer did not focus on the pain, he put me…
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Lael Keen
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Lael Keen
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. I feel its benefits in my…
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Kathrin Grobelnik
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Kathrin Grobelnik
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. What inspired me as I found out about Rolfing and I had my Rolfing sessions was that Ida Rolf was the first one who took the gravity into account for a…
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Phoenix DeLeón
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Phoenix DeLeón
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. One of the things that she said is…
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Peter Schwind
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Peter Schwind
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. On a professional level, I must…
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Russell Stolzoff
Commemorating 125 year of Dr Ida Rolf with Russell Stolzoff
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. It made me…

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