Shaken to the Core By Sharon Sklar, Certifi ed Advanced Rolfer
I rest my hands, take time for myself and get life done. I was watching television coverage of the Electoral College Count, when all hell broke loose. As I witnessed the rioters running up the Capitol steps, smashing windows and doors to get in- side, I felt my stomach sink and suddenly began to cry. I immediately felt unsafe and ungrounded. Those feelings were so familiar from years past.
O Feeling unsafe and unstable was how
I felt in my twenties. In art school, the weirder you were, the cooIer you were. I wasn’t that weird and certainly wasn’t that cool. After college, I began to actively seek truth, balance and inner connection. I took every healing workshop in modalities that sounded interesting. I worked as a waitress, taught art classes, sold Earth Shoes, trav- eled in Europe. I got Rolfed. In my second of the ten sessions of Rolfi ng®, I received an inner message that I would become a Rolfer and do this work for the rest of my life. I began to feel more grounded and focused as my body transformed with the Rolfi ng®
sessions. My journey had begun.
n January 6, 2021, I was settling down to write this column. It was my typical Wednesday off.
admission to The Rolf Institute (now called The Dr. Ida Rolf®
As I worked on my prerequisites for Institute), I had a crip-
pling car accident and could not walk or work. I had to heal and get ready for my interviews, so I stayed with a friend in Carmel, California. She brought me up the road to The Esalen Institute in Big Sur, the hotbed of wholistic body/mind/spirit thought. Through connections I made, I ended up staying for a life-changing month, trading bodywork with practitioners there and healing from my recent injuries. I then went off to Boulder, Colorado for my two days of Rolfi ng®
interviews.
I was accepted to The Rolf Institute and soon began my studies. I had a dif- fi cult time as I was only 24 years old and didn’t yet know enough about myself. I was the youngest person in my class with most of the other students already having had a career or two. Many things were suggested to me to help me “fi nd” myself. I believe the process of getting my body organized with all of the Rolfi ng®
I had
over those years, brought me into my sol- id, strong body and nurtured my develop- ment of a clear, intuitive mind. I became steady, grounded, and grew professionally, personally and spiritually.
Ten years later, I remember how I sud-
denly lost my physical sense of the world. I awoke in the midst of an earthquake at Zion National Park. My bed was jumping, the fl oors were rocking, the walls were creaking and the sound of a loud freight train roared from below. It became clear this was a massive earthquake. I returned to my bed after a harrowing several minutes huddled under the bathroom door frame and burst into tears as I put my head down on the pillow. My entire nervous system was reacting to the lack of solid earth beneath me. We expect the earth to be stable, always there when you jump or put your feet down on the fl oor or when we walk, hike or run. I sobbed myself to sleep that night, knowing I had experienced a profound shift.
When I witnessed the chaos and the storming of our Nation’s Capitol, all my senses went back to those times when I experienced ungrounded and insecure feelings. This time, I felt it in my gut. I was mentally and emotionally upset. I needed more sleep, reached for comfort food and felt distracted. Speaking to oth- ers about this, many people had a some- what similar reaction. We all felt we had no ground to stand on. I felt unsteady, shaken to the core.
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