Advanced Rolfing Fort Worth Pain interruption affects the body to its primordial core initiating a synergistic response. The inference derived from the stage conception of development, in recognition that structure and function are two sides of the same coin, is awe inspiring and enlightening with the potential to shake one's perception of reality loose. The relationship and integration of the breath with visceral and somatic structure, function, and form are grafted into the system from the beginning and it is only organic that one can navigate these sensations and emotions from a witness position.

When the fascial matrix resources from the issuing mesoderm spreads to permeate the entire form of the being encasing all the components of who you are, a virtual container of expression from the breath of life. The body can achieve verticality because of the buoyant attributes of being in a fluid filled body existing in a fluid filled gravity. Only when asymmetry sets in is the need for Advanced Rolfing Fort Worth breathing techniques needed for endogenous Pain Management.

Diaphragms and membranes exist in the feet, legs, knees, pelvis, thorax, and cranium and provide pressurized segments of fluid throughout the body. Humans are similar in form to the Michelin tire man and when one pressurized segment loses its resilience the entire system is affected. Breathing through the mouth as opposed to nose breathing is associated with weakening the respiratory diaphragm thus weakening the entire diaphragmatic and pressurized system.

Breathing through the mouth stimulates sympathetic neuro-receptors causing a sympathetic response to the entire nervous system of fight-or-flight, complicating and even inhibiting the integration process whereas nose breathing stimulates a para-sympathetic response of a calm, cool, and collected consciousness that enables integration, hence how you breathe is how you live. Rolfing Pain Management exploits the breath to achieve the new potential.

Rolling breath is the way to engage the oneness of breath to our practice and life. Whether seated in zazen, or in motion, rolling breath is the vehicle of cadence in breath awareness. In zazen, or hero, start by grounding through the lower legs into the mat with more of an intention than action by adding weight from where the pelvic floor meets the posterior calcaneus to where the legs meet the mat with direction inferiorly, yielding into the mat.

Rock the pelvis anterior and posterior to find the sweet spot of support and ease, positioning the pelvis on the heels or Achilles tendons. Scan the core to see if the abdominals and pelvic floor are activated and if they are, incorporate softening them in your inquiry of support and ease in this posture. Position the belly on the pelvis, the heart on the belly and the shoulders on the heart. Advanced Rolfing Fort Worth prepares the body to integrate the breath throughout the body.

Stacking these segments in this way allows for natural alignment to govern the support. Once ease and support are discovered from the visceral space at the thoracic inlet of the shoulders to the bottom of the pelvic floor, position the head on top of the shoulders and add subtle direction superiorly. The visceral cranium and the neuro-cranium come together where the mandible and maxilla meet at the TMJ, creating tension and pressure in the head unless it is thought to keep the jaw soft, resting the tongue in the floor of the mouth and the eyes in their sockets.

Chiropractic, Physical Therapy, or Massage Therapy are not substitutes for an Advanced Rolfing Fort Worth Ten Series.

John Barton | Certified Advanced Rolfer ® & Rolfing ® Fort Worth-Dallas | Certified Rolf Movement ® Practitioner