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“It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.”
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Ida Rolf
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“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.”
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Ida Rolf
#Pain Quotes
#War Quotes
#Fighting Quotes
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“When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself”
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Ida Rolf
Source : Ida P. Rolf, Rosemary Feitis (1990). “Rolfing and Physical Reality”, p.31, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
#Body Quotes
#Flow Quotes
#Massage Quotes
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“An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.”
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Ida Rolf
#Humans Quotes
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“The body is solid material wrapped around the breath”
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Ida Rolf
#Body Quotes
#Materials Quotes
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“Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.”
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Ida Rolf
Source : 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
#Order Quotes
#Two Sides Quotes
#Unity Quotes
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“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.”
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Ida Rolf
#Giving Quotes
#Support Quotes
#Body Quotes
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“You cant get beyond the body unless you free the body itself.”
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Ida Rolf
#Body Quotes
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“Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.”
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Ida Rolf
Source : Ida P. Rolf, Rosemary Feitis (1990). “Rolfing and Physical Reality”, p.57, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
#Effort Quotes
#Needs Quotes
#Ease Quotes
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“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.”
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Ida Rolf
Source : Ida P. Rolf, Ph.D. (1990). “Rolfing and Physical Reality”, p.83, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
#Cost Quotes
#Able Quotes
#Problem Quotes
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“God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.”
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Ida Rolf
Source : Ida P. Rolf, Rosemary Feitis (1990). “Rolfing and Physical Reality”, p.39, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
#Inspiration Quotes
#Years Quotes
#Firsts Quotes
