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I still don’t see why I need ten sessions if only my neck hurts. The rest of my body is fine.


You may think the rest of your body is fine, but by now you should be beginning to see the far- reaching implications of structural imbalance. Pushing on a tight muscle may feel good temporarily, but if the underlying problem isn’t corrected, it will return, or else take expression in some other part of the body.


The question you should be asking yourself is this: “What is causing my neck (back, hip) muscles to remain chronically tight?” It was this question that led Ida P. Rolf, Ph.D., a research biochemist at the Rockefeller Institute, on a journey of discovery that led to the discipline now known as Rolfing. Working on the hips to relieve tension in the neck may seem counter- intuitive, but this expanded view of body


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