ROLFING® STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION
Relieves chronic pain
Restores your range of motion
Revives your sense of ease
This is hands-on bodywork
for your life as a human being
WHAT ROLFING IS AND WHY IT WORKS
The Rolf Method of Structural Integration is hands-on bodywork that addresses chronic pain and creates ease via your fascia. And you can do it right here in Vancouver.
Your fascia is the incredible network of tissue that gives your body its shape. When fascia is healthy, it glides. It breathes. It literally dances. When fascia is strained, it adheres.
Over a series of 10 sessions, called the Ten Series, I address adhesions in your fascia throughout your entire body. The result is a feeling of groundedness, spaciousness, and vitality that lasts. I want you to find relief from pain. I want you to find balance. I want you to find ease. I want you to find joy. My goal is not perfection, but to bring your structure to your next level of integration.
What puts strain on your fascia, you ask? Fascia is strained by repeated movements (hello desk jobs, hello treadmills), traumatic events both big and small (hello rough childhood, hello that time you were 'fine' after a car accident, and also that time you weren't), and just plain 21st century life (hello cell phones, hello video games, hellooooooo social media). If this is you, Rolfing can help.
WHO ROLFING IS FOR
If you are living a 21st century life, Rolfing in the heart of Vancouver could be for you. Specifically if you:
Rolfing reduces tension, relieves persistent aches, and restores natural alignment for lasting relief
Suffer from chronic pain
Rolfing counteracts the effects of prolonged sitting by improving posture, mobility, and restoring overall comfort
Have a desk job
Rolfing enhances performance by preventing injury and improving flexibility for more efficient movement
Are — or want to be — athletic and active
Rolfing in Mount Pleasant
My studio is warm, welcoming, and cozy, and provides a comfortable space for you to relax and reconnect with your body.
After your session, you can step outside, take a deep breath, and enjoy the fresh air while exploring the tree-lined streets, cozy cafés, and local parks. In fact, I encourage a nice 10-15 minute stroll post-session to integrate our work. Mount Pleasant is the perfect place for this.
I look forward to welcoming you!
HOW ROLFING CAN BENEFIT YOU
More ease? Yes, please!
Rolfing generates ease in your physical structure via your body's network of fascia. This sense of ease can look and feel like:
Re-establishing 3D, full-body breathing
Recovering mobility, resilience, and spaciousness in your spine
Rediscovering movement in places in your body that felt stuck
Finding space in places in your body that felt compressed
Sensing more presence, buoyancy, opening in your head and heart
Experiencing dynamic connections between your feet and the ground beneath you
Recapturing a feeling of wholeness throughout your being
ROLFING PRICE LIST
30 MINUTE FREE CONSULTATION
Wondering if Rolfing would be a good fit for you? Let's chat and I'll do my best to answer your questions. We're in this together, so let's make sure we're a good fit.
We can chat online or in-person.
More ease? Yes, please!
ROLFING SESSION
Let's do this!
In your first session, we'll do an in- person intake and then we'll get to work. A typical session runs 90 minutes, but please set aside extra time so we can both be clear on what you want. I set aside 2 hours for your first session.
My fee per session is $160 plus GST.
Think of this first session as a taster to find out how the work feels in your body.
WHY I BECAME A CERTIFIED ROLFER IN VANCOUVER, BC
In addition to being a Certified Rolfer, I am also a spoken voice coach, and actor. I am fascinated with our capacity for expression as humans being. For me, Rolfing is a uniquely effective way to encourage a feeling of wholeness in the body — such an important precursor to feeling free to express.
My sense is that Rolfing works not only because it is holistic, but because you and I work together. This means you are in the driver’s seat of your own well-being. This co-operation creates a sense of agency, empowerment, and safety. Throughout our process, we look to activate the resources you already have within you. We uncover a deeper sense of stability. We investigate the possibilities of movement. We engage your senses. We educate. We learn from each other. And we have fun! I have not encountered any other body work that is as effective in the long term and as humane in its philosophy as Rolfing® Structural Integration.
“When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.”
WHY FOLKS CHOOSE ME
“There is a roundness in your work. You bring that feeling of softness like a wave. Softness can be a strength. You are doing something soft but very deep to empower the people you work with. You are doing something to help a small flower to stand on a long stem. What a powerful thing!”
“Lopa has a very integrated approach to bodywork. I came for left shoulder pain, and Lopa immediately went to my right mid-back! She opened up space in my whole back, letting my left shoulder have room to come into alignment. It was amazingly intuitive.
Lopa’s integrated approach extends beyond different parts of the body, but also the mind and emotions. It was interesting to explore how some of the major stressors I experienced over the past year had pervasive effects in my physical body, even without me fully realizing it.
I highly encourage anyone to visit Lopa who is experiencing any type of pain, even beyond physical. Her integrated and intuitive bodywork approach can assist your body’s own restoration for lasting mobility and ease.”
“I choose to do the 10 sessions because, after a severe knee injury, I still hadn’t found a new balance in my body in spite of physiotherapy. Right from the first session, I could feel subtle changes in my posture: I moved with more ease, felt more grounded and centred, and it gave me more space to breathe.
Also, something else that I had never expected: Rolfing had a beneficial effect on my mental state. My more centred body allowed me to focus a lot more, and I felt more balanced. Lopa’s approach is mindful, and I felt literally safe in her hands. Lopa asks you to participate in what she does with subtle movements that enhance the effect of her gentle but deep manipulations. Unlike other approaches I experienced, Rolfing appears to have a more permanent effect on my posture and mobility.
And my knee? It feels like a full part of my body again!”
“Lopa is an absolute delight as a rolfer and as a person, and is an intuitive healer. She not only accepts you for who you are, where you are at, she celebrates you as a patient and human. I can’t recommend her enough!”
“I wasn’t sure if Rolfing would be right for me, but a friend recommended Lopa, and I’m so glad I gave it a try. I came in with back pain, and after just one session, I feel lighter, more aligned, and so much better. I will definitely go back for more sessions! Lopa is kind, gentle, and truly professional. Highly recommend her care to anyone in Vancouver!”
WHO ROLFING COMES FROM
What we now call myofascial release, Dr. Ida P. Rolf coined Structural Integration -- more than 75 years ago.
A biochemist, Dr. Rolf made it her life's work to uncover ways to free our bodies from pain, injury, and imbalance at the source: our network of fascia. For literally hundreds of years, fascia had been largely discarded as merely packing tissue. Dr. Rolf understood that nothing in our body is without purpose. She realized that our network of fascia is in fact what gives our us our form. Too much tension stuck in one place is bound to affect the entire structure. By addressing fascia, Dr. Rolf succeeded in restoring range of motion, reducing pain, and retrieving balance in relation to gravity for so many hundreds of humans.
After decades of research and practice, Dr. Rolf gave us the Rolfing Ten Series. The thoroughness of her process is why Rolfing Structural Integration can create lasting change in humans being.
“Over and over again, people come to me, and they tell me, “You just don’t know how strong I am.” They say ‘strength’ and I want to hear ‘balance.’ The strength idea has effort in it; this is not what I’m looking for. Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.”
I am privileged to practice and live on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. I understand that before there is reconciliation, there must be truth. I am committed to listening and holding space until truth is acknowledged and actual reconciliation can begin.
The Lee Building
175 E Broadway, #211 A
Vancouver BC V5T 1W2
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