Top 11 Quotes by Ida Rolf

The body is solid material wrapped around the breath

The body is solid material wrapped around the breath

Body, Materials, Breaths

It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.

Way, Smart Women, Method

When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself

Ida Rolf

Heal Itself, Body, Flow

Ida P. Rolf, Rosemary Feitis (1990). “Rolfing and Physical Reality”, p.31, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.

Ida Rolf

Effort, Needs, Ease

Ida P. Rolf, Rosemary Feitis (1990). “Rolfing and Physical Reality”, p.57, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.

Ida Rolf

Pain, War, Fighting

You cant get beyond the body unless you free the body itself.

Ida Rolf

Body, Cant

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

Ida Rolf

Order, Two Sides, Unity

Ida P. Rolf (1989). “Rolfing: Reestablishing the Natural Alignment and Structural Integration of the Human Body for Vitality and Well-Being”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Ida Rolf

Humans, Whole, Greater

Go around the problem; get the system sufficiently resilient so that it is able to change, and it will change, It doesn't have to be forced. It's that forcing that you have to avoid at all costs.

Ida Rolf

Cost, Able, Problem

Ida P. Rolf, Ph.D. (1990). “Rolfing and Physical Reality”, p.83, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

Practitioners of SI do not feel ourselves to be therapists. The gravitational field is the therapist. What we do is prepare the body to receive the support from the gravitational field which gives a greater sense of well being.

Ida Rolf

Giving, Support, Body