Success Stories

As a professional dancer, Rolfing® has helped me inhabit my body
As a professional dancer, Rolfing® has helped me inhabit my body
Success Stories | Sabine Becker
I started 'late' for my initial dance-passion, which was classical ballet... I was so enraptured with the feel of dancing and the kind of connection I felt when moving, but the professional training was deeply traumatic for my system - on many levels...
How Rolfing® Helps Dancers Understand Their Bodies Differently 
Rolfing® Structural Integration has taught me to view my body as a companion: A dancer’s perspective
Success Stories | Sabine Becker
As a professional dancer, I lived inside a body that was constantly performing, adapting and being shaped by choreography. For years, I thought of my body almost exclusively as a tool - something to train, discipline and refine.
Reflections on Myofascial Structural Integration in Children with Cerebral Palsy
Reflections on Rolfing® Bodywork with Children with Cerebral Palsy
Success Stories | Marketing Assistant
A recent article by Certified Advanced Rolfer® Karen S. Price offers two thoughtful case reflections on how she supported young children with spastic cerebral palsy.
Professional Ballett Dancer and Rolfing Structural Integration student Adam Schütt, Stockholm, Sweden
From Ballet to Bodywork: Self-Discovery Through Dance and Rolfing® Structural Integration
Success Stories | Sabine Becker
What happens when the discipline of professional dance meets Rolfing® Structural Integration?
Norwegian Rolfer on his path to Rolfing
My Path to Rolfing®: A Journey of Transformation and Connection
Success Stories | Sabine Becker
My journey to becoming a Rolfer began in March 2015. At that time, I was primarily working with Shiatsu and Acupuncture but felt something was missing.
An Experience of Level 2 of Rolfing® Training
An Experience of Level 2 of Rolfing® Training
Success Stories | Sabine Becker
Entering level 2 of the Rolfing® training was like giving a commitment to myself. This move was the entrance step into getting serious with changing my career path.
Vom Physiotherapeuten zum Rolfer®
From Physiotherapist to Rolfer®
Success Stories | Sabine Becker
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.
Finding Relief from Scoliosis Through Rolfing®
Finding Relief from Scoliosis Through Rolfing®
Success Stories | Sabine Becker
I have severe Scoliosis and have been seeing Rolfers® for over 40 years... At 13, my parents wanted me to wear a back brace, and doctors talked about back surgery. I refused both...
My Journey of Rolfing®: A Pathway to ‘Coming Home’
My Journey of Rolfing®: A Pathway to ‘Coming Home’
Success Stories | Marketing Assistant
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...
Making Others Feel Better Fills me with Joy
Making Others Feel Better Fills me with Joy
Success Stories | Marketing Assistant
I was working in London at a very exclusive membership club as Operations Director when the COVID pandemic started. [...] It became clearer to me during this time-out that for a time I have had a longing to do something more meaningful.
Unexpected Journey: From Dancer to Rolfer®
Unexpected Journey: From Dancer to Rolfer®
Success Stories | Marketing Assistant
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 years to perfecting my craft as a dancer, I found myself constantly aiding…
My Second Career: Camilla Zacho
Physical and Emotional Distress are very often Linked
Success Stories | Marketing Assistant
Before I became a Rolfer, I was educated as a Clinical Psychologist... I knew I had to find ways to include the body in therapy, so I travelled to San Fransisco to learn a body-oriented psychotherapy called Psycho-Physical Therapy.
John van Roosmalen
As a Massagist Studying Rolfing®, a New World has Opened up for me
Success Stories | Marketing Assistant
I am a massage therapist. I did my training at the Akademie voor Massage en Beweging in Amsterdam. I am a career changer, Massage Therapy and Rolfing® is my second career. I have been a scientist, a chemist, for 33 years.  
Kostas Rolfer®
From Chef to Rolfer®: Now I can help people in a meaningful way
Success Stories | Marketing Assistant
Having 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 process of creating…
Working as a Rolfer® and being a musician overlaps in many ways
Working as a Rolfer® and being a musician overlaps in many ways
Success Stories | Marketing Assistant
I 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.
Alexandra Haugg: Medical doctor & Rolfer - A perfect combination
Medical doctor & Rolfer® - a perfect combination
Success Stories | Sabine Becker
Actually, Rolfing® Structural 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.
Second Career Rolfing®: Rolfing® as a meaningful part of my life and work
Rolfing® as a meaningful part of my life and work
Success Stories | Sabine Becker
My name is Romana Netzberger, I am a Rolfer® and a marketing agency owner, and I live and work on a small permaculture farm.
My Second Career: From Dentist to Rolfer®
My Second Career: From Dentist to Rolfer®
Success Stories | Sabine Becker
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...
As a Musician, Rolfing® was a pivotal, life changing experience for me
As a Musician, Rolfing® was a pivotal, life changing experience for me
Success Stories | Ali
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.
How Rolfing helped helped me with chest pain and after a 'burnout'
How Rolfing helped me with chest pain and after a 'burnout'
Success Stories | Arnaud
“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 exper
How Rolfing helped to free me from back, shoulder and jaw pain
How Rolfing helped to free me from back, shoulder and jaw pain
Success Stories | Arnaud
In this conversation, Certified Rolfer
How Rolfing helped me to deal with back pain from Scheuermann disease
How Rolfing helped me to deal with back pain from Scheuermann disease
Success Stories | Arnaud
“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.
Rolfing Success Story - How Rolfing helped me recover from back hernias and bed rest
How Rolfing helped me recover from back hernias and bed rest
Success Stories | Arnaud
“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.
Rolfing after a hip operation with Certified Rolfer®, Henrike Rietz-Leiber
Rolfing after a hip operation
Success Stories | Arnaud
“For me, the results of Rolfing® were immediate.
Rolfing® Success Story: Professional Opera Singer – Florian Thomas
Professional Opera Singer – Florian Thomas
Success Stories | Arnaud
Rolfing® was so profoundly “life-changing” for Professional Opera Singer
Rolfers® Join the World-Renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Rolfers® Join the World-Renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Success Stories | Arnaud
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 Th
Success Story Michael Köllner, piano teacher, Freiburg
Pianist and piano teacher, Michael Köllner overcomes pain through Rolfing
Success Stories | Arnaud
Why did you try Rolfing® and how did you discover it? I started taking piano lessons when I was 7 years old.

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