In this still young century, there have been many advances in the understanding of the effects and causes of trauma. It is now broadly understood, even in mainstream medicine and psychology, that trauma is more than simply a "mental" condition. The body and mind are not separate entities, they are part of the contiuum of experience. Therefore, emotional and psychological trauma. A key marker of trauma is the pervasive sense of not feeling safe. A person may know on some cognitive thinking level that they are safe, but their body, for no apparent reason, produces stress and tension that can show up in many ways--racing heart, a pit in the stomach, chronic neck or low back tension or a general and pervasive sense of unease, ie. "not feeling comfortable in one's own skin." 

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For decades, many Rolfing clients have experienced significant relief from the effects of emotional and psychological trauma. I became a Rolfer in large part because of the profound experience of feeling deeply grounded in my body in The Present Moment in a way I had not known. Gravity suddenly became my friend, and paradoxically, I felt both the deep support of the solid earth and yet lighter and easier in movement and expression. This embodied presence gave created tremendous space in my mind. Old stories began to find an easy home inside me and no longer pushed constantly and uncomfortably at the edges of my being.

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One of the beautiful things I experienced was the softening of my being without having to rehash old stories over and over again. The stories had been told enough--indeed, telling the same old story again simply strengthen the old pattern of tension by release then creating the "need" to release it again.

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Rolfing comes at chronic stress from the other side of pathology and disconnect. It seeks to build support in your body that is already there--the pervasive 

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