Your Full History
We begin with your history: old injuries, falls, dental work, even your birth. Most practitioners skip this, but it is where the real map is drawn; where you hurt today is rarely where the story began.
Your nervous system relaxes. Your body remembers your innate ease and vitality.
The first session
What to Expect.
Your first session, step by step
No prior experience with this kind of bodywork is needed. Here is how a first session typically unfolds, and what you will leave with.
Showing Up
The first session asks nothing special of you. Just be here, awake and open to whatever your body has to say. You are simply meeting your own body again, with someone who knows how to listen.
Hands On
A candle is burning, you lie down, and I begin at the knees. Happy knees first, every session. I talk while I work, asking you to keep your eyes open and breathe, and I use a gentle percussor to calm the nervous system in ways my hands alone cannot reach.
What You Take Home
Before you leave, I give you simple tools, drawn from master practitioners I have studied for 35 years, that settle the nervous system and help your body keep releasing between sessions. One example: keep your lips slightly parted through the day, and the whole chain from jaw to neck to lungs to heart begins to soften.
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Meet Jonathan
Jonathan became a Licensed Massage Therapist in 1991. In 1993 he completed certification in Structural Integration in the lineage of Dr. Ida Rolf, studying directly under the first two practitioners Dr. Rolf chose to teach her methodology.
He is also certified in Myofascial Release TherapyVascular Bone TherapyMuscle Energy TechniquePrimal Reflex Release Techniqueand Craniosacral / Body Electronics.
Dr. Ida Rolf
“The feeling of aliveness, the sense of being at home. That is what we are after.”
Dr. Ida Rolf earned a PhD in biochemistry from Columbia University in 1920 and went on to become the first female research associate at the prestigious Rockefeller Institute.
After a horse-related injury left her in chronic pain, the doctors said that little could be done for her. As a scientist she refused to accept that. After finding some relief through osteopathy and yoga, she devoted her life to uncovering the inner workings of the body. Decades of research later, she built something entirely new: a remarkably effective method of restoring the body to its natural vitality and ease.
She went on to treat thousands of clients and teach at the European School of Osteopathy, Kansas City College of Osteopathy, and Esalen Institute, before founding the Rolf Institute in 1971 to train practitioners of her work.
Jonathan was certified by the first two trainers she authorized to pass on her methodology: Emmett Hutchins and Peter Melchior.
Learn more about Ida, this lineage, and the many other powerful teachers that have influenced Jonathan's work.