The Rolf Institute® has certified over 2000 Rolfers™ worldwide since 1971. We provide rigorous training, increase public awareness on the benefits of Rolfing® Structural Integration and promote research.
Developed more than fifty years ago by Dr. Ida P. Rolf, Rolfing® Structural Integration is a form of hands-on (bodywork) manipulation and movement education that that systematically reorganizes the connective tissues, or fascia, to release, realign and balance the whole body in gravity.
Rolfing Structural Integration has had the ability to dramatically alter a person's posture and structure, including:
• injury recovery
• pain reduction
• stress relief
• increased flexibility and freedom of movement
• headache relief
• better balance and ease
The Rolf Institute® of Structural Integration is the only school that teaches Rolfing SI and certifies Rolfers™.
We offer a comprehensive 731-hour training program for students with no previous background in bodywork, as well as a 600-hour program for experienced massage therapists.
We also offer:
• The Rolf Institute is the original school of Rolfing Structural Integration.
• Our class sizes are small to maximize individual attention.
• Our program has a flexible timetable that accommodates students' diverse needs.
• We offer an esteemed international faculty.
Integral Bodywork is dedicated to our teachers, without whom this method would not exist. We are often filled with a sense of awe and wonder at how blessed we have been to have trained under them and to have received so much. Tanouye Tenshin Rotaishi who showed us the Way and insisted that we realize our True Potential. William "Dub" Leigh who shared Ida Rolf's 10 Session method with us and inspired us to explore deeper in the bodymind. Toyoda Tenzan Rokoji who supported the development of this work and who provided us with a living example of "a natural man".