Success Stories

Interview with professional dancer Adam Schütt, Stockholm, Sweden  What happens when the discipline of professional dance meets Rolfing® Structural Integration? In this interview, Adam Schütt, a dedicated dancer and current Rolfing student, shares his evolving experiences from the ballet stage and…

By Certified Advanced Rolfer® Pedro Miguel Gonçalves de Amorim, Norway/Portugal   My journey to becoming a Rolfer began in March 2015 at the Rolfing® Spectrum [now Level 1 training] in Agatharied-Munich. At that time, I was primarily working with Shiatsu and Acupuncture but felt something was…

Learning the Magic of the 10-Series Recipe or How to Make Yourself Comfortable in Uncertainty  By Certified Rolfer® Stephanie Aimée Poole - Austria   Things are about to get real! Entering level 2 of the Rolfing® Structural Integration training was like giving a commitment to myself. Unlike in…

By Michael Hartmann, Physiotherapist, Magdeburg, Germany As a physiotherapist with many years of experience, I have always been searching for new approaches to enrich my practice and provide my patients with holistic treatment. The decision to pursue my Rolfing® training at the Dr. Ida Rolf…

By Susan, Rolfing® client, Aix-en-Provence, France  I have severe Scoliosis and have been seeing Rolfers® for over 40 years. My name is Susan. I was a forceps baby, born with a broken collar bone. Perhaps it was this early physical trauma combined with a tumultuous home life that contributed to my…

By Louise Almgren, Certified Advanced Rolfer® - Stockholm, Sweden I often reflect on my journey with Rolfing® Structural Integration, from both the perspectives of a practitioner and a receiver: how it began as a physical journey and unfolded into a way of life, a pathway of learning about and…

By Tobias Elliot-Walter I was working in London at a very exclusive membership club as Operations Director when the COVID pandemic started. London was one of many cities that was hit hard. I was infected with COVID early in that first wave. Even after three months I was still feeling weak and not…

By professional dancer and Certified Advanced Rolfer® Miquel De Jong   When I embarked on my career as a dancer, becoming a Rolfer® was the furthest thing from my mind. Life, however, has a way of leading us down unexpected paths, and that's precisely what happened to me. While dedicating many…

By Camilla Zacho, Clinical Psychologist & Certified Rolfer® From Clinical Psychologist to Rolfer®Before I became a Rolfer, I was educated as a Clinical Psychologist. I studied at The University of Copenhagen for 5 years and then I had 2 years of clinical practise which in Denmark qualifies for…

By John van Roosmalen I am a massage therapist. I did my training at the Akademie voor Massage en Beweging in Amsterdam. It is a four-year course, including Western Medicine Fundamentals. I am a career changer, Massage Therapy and Rolfing is my second career. I have been a scientist, a chemist, for…

By Kostas StavridisHaving moved from Greece to the Netherlands as a chef in a high-end restaurant, I have always been interested in making people happy and meeting their needs. At one point, I realized that the healing properties of food and helping people were more in my focus than the actual…

By Eileen McEwanI first heard about Rolfing through my sister who had been advised to go for Rolfing sessions to help her with her recovery from a complicated fracture in her leg. Something in the way she described what happened in these sessions triggered me to want to experience it for myself,…

By Dr. Alexandra HauggActually, Rolfing® Structual Integration is already my third career step, if I consider well; it is nothing less than a logical step following my former activities – even if they might look pretty heterogeneous.What was your original career before Rolfing?I started very…

By professional dancer Jennifer-Lynn CrawfordI started 'late' for my initial dance-passion, which was classical ballet - I began at a professional school when I was 16, which, for women in that part of the dance world, is fairly ancient. Most of my peers were apprenticing at companies when I was…

By professional dancer Judit Ruiz OnandiFascia treatmentIt actually took me quite some time to discover Rolfing Structural Integration. I followed anatomy of movement workshops, and it was through them that I discovered about fascia. The teacher explained that it is an organ that both connects and…

My name is Romana Netzberger, I am a Rolfer, a biologist, a yoga teacher, and I work and live on a small farm in the beautiful Mostviertel in Austria.What was your original career before Rolfing®?Already as a child I was very interested in natural sciences I always loved to be outdoors. After…

By Stefan Kirn, Certified Rolfer®When I graduated from dental medicine and began to practice, the feeling that something still was missing appeared soon. I wanted to pay a more comprehensive attention to people and therefore I explored the edges of dentistry: Acupuncture, medical hypnosis,…

Although I had my first Rolfing® session 45 years ago when I was still working as a professional musician, my recall of the experience is still very present. At the time, I had been playing all kinds of drums and percussion instruments since I was quite young. But my Rolfing experience was whilst…

“After the first Rolfing® session, I found I could breathe again and I actually thought, ‘do I really need all ten sessions, I feel so much better already!’ Then overtime, I realised it made sense as each session is just one part of the whole thing, and I experienced fantastic things in so many of…

In this conversation, Certified Rolfer® and Rolf Movement™ Practitioner, Claudia Kroczek reconnects with her client, Natasha B (33 years), 18 months after she completed her Rolfing ‘Ten Series’ to check up on her progress. A Sales Manager in a Fitness Centre, Natasha saw Claudia every two to three…

“By the end of the ten Rolfing® sessions, Eric was almost unrecognisable. In his last email to me he said: ‘You took fifty years off my life and now I feel like a teenager!’ Says Begoña Fontana Urriza. I am speaking to Begoña Fontana Urriza, a Certified Rolfer® in Spain, and her client, Eric Weber…

“With every Rolfing® session I discovered something new about my body and the world around me, my vision became wider… and so did my photography. I achieved an entirely new state of wellness. Rolfing has changed my life. It resolved my back pain and gave me the ability to walk without pain.”  Says…

“For me, the results of Rolfing® were immediate. I wanted to get out of this vicious cycle of pain and Henrike said something that made a big impression on me: Henrike said ‘Don’t think about how you are walking. Stay in your head and look around you. Try to avoid thinking about your legs!’  Before…

Rolfing® was so profoundly “life-changing” for Professional Opera Singer Florian Thomas, he decided to move to the UK with his wife, become freelance and to train part-time to become a Certified Rolfer®. The European Rolfing® Association invited me to meet Thomas and investigate further. Sitting…

This month, two of our Certified Advanced Rolfers® Miquel de Jong and Aman Andres Kohlbach have been working closely behind the scenes with the world-renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, to support their globally acclaimed dancers in a very special four-day performance at the New Luxor…

Why did you try Rolfing® and how did you discover it? I started taking piano lessons when I was 7 years old. I played regularly and practiced up to 5 hours a day until I graduated from high school. Eventually I developed back pain, which was clearly noticeable in everyday movements as well as…