Rolfing Structural Integration® is a gentle, effective form of manual therapy that improves posture, movement, and alignment by addressing your body’s relationship with gravity. Through the Rolfing Ten Series™, tension patterns from old injuries, stress, or poor posture are released, helping your body move with ease, balance, and support. The result is lasting pain relief, better energy, and a natural, effortless posture that feels good to live in.

Restore Natural, Pain-Free Movement

At Whole Body Kinetics, we integrate movement modalities that help retrain the body to move with ease and efficiency. These sessions complement Rolfing and include:

1. Movement Education
2. Rolf Movement®
3. Polestar® Pilates Principles
4. Injury rehabilitation strategies rooted in Brendan’s decades of experience in orthopedic physical therapy and orthopedic rehabilitation.
5. Introduction to Qi Gong and Tai Chi

Movement modalities such as these help to reteach muscle holding patterns to support the improved posture and alignment achieved during the Rolfing Ten Series and to maintain, or - in many cases, continue to process of integrating the body as a whole. Gravity is ever present after all, even after Rolfing.

A Whole-Body Approach to Structural Integration

Our approach is grounded in current research from manual therapy, neuroscience, fascia science, sensory-motor integration, and exercise science. We focus on a concept called bio-tensegrity- which describes tension and compression forces that support the body like the structure of a building.

Your body's balance depends on these dynamic forces working together through the fascial network and overall muscle tone.

Rolfing creates three dimensional support through the body that allows the body to become an integrated whole.

Addressing Imbalances for Long-Term Change

Structural imbalances can lead to muscle compensation patterns, where some muscles overwork while others are underactive. This often results in discomfort, tightness, and chronic pain.

Through the Rolfing Ten Series, these patterns are addressed systematically, from the feet to the head with the spine playing a central role.

As balance is restored, overworked muscles release, inhibited muscles activate, and the body regains its natural tone, mobility, and alignment. Many clients report standing taller, feeling lighter, moving with ease, and experiencing less pain, often with improved energy and vitality.

Fascia: The Body’s Connective Tissue Web

Rolfing works through the fascial system- a web of connective tissue that links every part of the body, from muscle to bone, bone to bone, fascia covers and separates nerves, organs and other issue layers in the body. It has many important and various roles in the body: connecting everything to everything else, structural support, temperature regulation, providing hydration to tissues, immunity, protection, movement and many others. Fascia is often considered to be the “organ of sensation” because of how it supports nerves to sense movement and position in space.

The Lasting Benefits of Rolfing

What sets Rolfing apart from other bodywork is its long-term impact. Over the course of the Ten Series, your body begins to organize itself around its central axis- the spine and pelvis, making movement more efficient and gravity less burdensome. As a result, clients often report not just relief, but transformation: more energy, better movement, and a deeper sense of ease in daily life.