Who was Dr. Ida Rolf?

Dr. Ida Rolf earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1920. This unusual achievement for a woman of that era points to the tenacity with which she went about her purposeful life.

With a scientific aptitude she delved into a range of practices and ideas including yoga and osteopathy, which, at the time, were in the shadows, quite discounted by the vast majority of her colleagues.

Confronted with health problems within her immediate family and social contacts which mainstream medicine could not resolve, Dr. Rolf pioneered a successful treatment approach which eventually coalesced into the Rolfing ten series.

Dr. Rolf began teaching her ideas, and eventually opened her own school. She never thought of her work as completed or static. Since her death in 1979, her students have continued to explore, research and refine the work of Structural Integration.