Ida Rolf famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.
-- Ida Rolf
Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.
-- Ida Rolf

#Pain #War #Fighting
When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself
-- Ida Rolf

#Body #Flow #Massage
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
-- Ida Rolf

#Humans
The body is solid material wrapped around the breath
-- Ida Rolf

#Body #Materials
Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
-- Ida Rolf

#Order #Two Sides #Unity
Practitioners of SI do not feel ourselves to be therapists. The gravitational field is the therapist. What we do is prepare the body to receive the support from the gravitational field which gives a greater sense of well being.
-- Ida Rolf

#Giving #Support #Body
You cant get beyond the body unless you free the body itself.
-- Ida Rolf

#Body
Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.
-- Ida Rolf

#Effort #Needs #Ease
Go around the problem; get the system sufficiently resilient so that it is able to change, and it will change, It doesn't have to be forced. It's that forcing that you have to avoid at all costs.
-- Ida Rolf

#Cost #Able #Problem
God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.
-- Ida Rolf

#Inspiration #Years #Firsts

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