by Michael on Sun Dec 31, 2017 6:38 pm
Yugen's experience sounds like the ideal scenario. I don't think most people who've done it have had such exceellent and specific results, especially if they didn't have some significant problems that could be alleviated by what I consider to be a very limited system of knowledge, one which may be very effective for a particular patient, but quite limited nonetheless.
It would really come down to the skill of the practitioner and I would look for someone like what Yugen described, or someone who personally expresses the characteristics that Rolfing claims: freedom from loss of energy due to structural inefficiency. There are all sorts of body and movement types of people who could express that principle differently, but I got rolfed by someone with serious knee issues he developed as a rolfer because of sitting on his knees in order to give treatments, and although that could be considered the result of injury, the fact he had no technique to help himself and the problem continued worsen through a multi-decade career of rolfing was kind of telling.