Rolfing is a forceful technique in which a practitioner will use their whole body to apply pressure. Rolfers and some experts in alternative medicine describe Rolfing as “somatic education” and use terms such as “bodywork” to describe the hands-on portion of the process.
Some factions of the massage industry claim that Rolfing is a type of massage. The massage tradition has drawn significantly from Rolfing, with some of Ida Rolf’s students leaving to become prominent teachers of massage.
