These images were made from photographs of a woman undergoing ten sessions of the Rolfing technique.

        Some things to notice through the progression of the images.

•Her head is more balanced over her shoulders with less strain on her neck and upper back.

•You can see that her chest appears less compressed, more open.

•Overall her body actually looks longer, less compressed.

        Imagine living in the body that is in the first image versus the body in the last image. It is easy to imagine that you would feel more comfortable, more at ease, even more confident in your stance and more open in your heart.

        The Rolf Institute's “little-boy” logo is based on actual before and after Rolfing sessions of a four-year old boy diagnosed by doctors as suffering from Legg Perthes disease. The subject, Tim Law, is now a healthy 42 year-old father of two children.

        His mother made a difficult yet courageous decision in 1959 to have Dr. Rolf work with her son, instead of following the doctors' advice to put him in a cast for five years (doctors told her that by the time he was 20, he would be confined to life in a wheelchair). The last 37 years have borne out the correctness of her decision: Tim went on to be a champion surfer in high school and college!