The higher goal of Rolfing


Once, while working in Geneva, Switzerland, I asked a colleague with whom I was thinking of going into practice why he’d given up his lucrative medical practice to pursue a career in Rolfing. “Internal medicine bored me,” he responded. “All I did was sit behind a desk and write prescriptions. But with Rolfing, each day presents me with new challenges and possibilities.” It is these possibilities that I’d like to speak of here.


In western thinking, we tend to view health as the absence of disease. In other words, if we have no symptoms, we must be healthy. But health is a continuum ranging from debilitating disease on one end to joyous existence on the other. Why is it then that so many people stop at the halfway point, where we are merely free from pain, when


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