Okay, Vicky, Walt, and all interested parties....here we go!
I'm afraid I'm having a bit of trouble remembering every little detail. This will be shorter that the first two descriptions - I won't wait so long to write next time, but it's been too hard to squeeze this in lately!
Third hour we worked on hamstrings, butt and ribs. The ribs were quite uncomfortable for me, as I've always had a problem with sensitivity on my left side with that bottom-most "floating rib." So, I was lying on my left side with my right knee bent and resting on a pillow. She had my heel lined up with my hip joint. She asked me to slowly straighten my leg, pushing my heel down, following her lead, as she pressed very deeply into my abdomen and lower back. With one hand in front and one hand in back, she started near my hip and moved very slowly and deliberately up until she was under the ribcage area, pressing from both front and back. (It was a bit creepy on the left side, because of that floating rib.) The end effect was that we stretched that side of my body out quite a bit…when I stood up and looked in the mirror, my torso was actually longer on the side we had just worked on! There was a lot of work on the butt muscles, too, and she asked me what it felt like where she was pressing, was it round or flat? I felt that it was a round feeling - it's hard to explain, but when you're feeling it, you know exactly and certainly that it's round. There are a lot of nerves there, so that part was kind of intense. The hamstring work was fairly unremarkable - but did make my legs swing more freely from my newly elongated torso! I bet I'm getting taller from this.
I'll post fourth hour separately
Be well,
trish
Follow Ups:
Re: Rolfing - Third Hour (By Popular Demand!)
Posted by Walt Stoll on October 17, 1998 at 09:35:28:
In Reply to: Rolfing - Third Hour (By Popular Demand!) posted by trish on October 16, 1998 at 18:47:42:
Thanks, Trish.
I "grew" several inches from my first Rolfing. I had to adjust my car seat and mirrors. This was my first inkling of this happening. By the 10th session I was more than 2" taller than at the start--back to where I had been at age 20.
Walt