Ida Rolf Quotes

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Ida Rolf was an individual of an unknown category. She was born in May 1896 and passed away in March 1979. Details about her life and achievements are limited, and her impact and evaluation cannot be specifically assessed at this time.

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All Body Gravity Greater Problem Wells Able Age Aging Approach Appropriate

Famous Ida Rolf Quotes

“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.”

Problem Able Cost Resilient

Book:Rolfing and Physical Reality

Source: Rolfing and Physical Reality

“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.”

Years Firsts Inspiration Down And Years Of Experience

Book:Rolfing and Physical Reality

Source: Rolfing and Physical Reality

“Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.”

Needs Results Effort Ease Need You

Book:Rolfing and Physical Reality

Source: Rolfing and Physical Reality

“An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.”

Humans Whole Human Beings Greater

Author:Ida Rolf

“Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.”

Two Form Order Sides Function Unity Appropriate Coins Two Sides Flipping A Coin

Book:Rolfing: Reestablishing the Natural Alignment and Structural Integration of the Human Body for Vitality and Well-Being

Source: Rolfing: Reestablishing the Natural Alignment and Structural Integration of the Human Body for Vitality and Well-Being

“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.”

“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.”

Giving Feels Wells Body Support Greater Fields Well Being Therapists

Author:Ida Rolf

“You cant get beyond the body unless you free the body itself.”

Body Cant

Author:Ida Rolf

“When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself”

Body Force Flow Heal Gravity Massage Heal Itself

Book:Rolfing and Physical Reality

Source: Rolfing and Physical Reality

“It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.”

Way Approach Method Biochemistry Smart Women

Author:Ida Rolf

“The body is solid material wrapped around the breath”

Body Materials Breaths

Author:Ida Rolf

About the Author

Born: May 19, 1896
Died: March 19, 1979
Known for: Author
Quotes: 11

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Rolfing and Physical RealityRelated source material

Rolfing: Reestablishing the Natural Alignment and Structural Integration of the Human Body for Vitality and Well-BeingRelated source material

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