Catherine Taye Slattery

I’ve been helping people feel better with Rolfing for over 25 years. Rolfing and SE go so well together! Most of my clients come in with layers of injury, tension, effort, strain and stress—the accumulation of the body’s efforts to support movement and protect from harm, reinforced in the tissues. My hands are tremendously skilled at easing these complex patterns of bracing, contraction and compensation. With respectful hands-on soft tissue work we work to improve, restore, or discover the physical capableness, comfort and agency that allows you do what you need and love to do. What does Rolfing feel like? More on that here. It might be different than you think! Rolfing reliably leads to positive and pleasant body experiences, including lightness, spaciousness, fluidity, balance, support, and relief, and feeling grounded, calm, vitally alive, relaxed, upright, and connected. The process can include lasting improvements like less pain, tension and stiffness, ease of movement, easy good posture, access to calm, clear, joyful and optimistic mental and emotional states, more body connection and self-awareness, a sense of flow and momentum in life. Rolfing helps with trauma--it helps bodies process old experiences and open to new possibilities. Bessel van der Kolk (author of The Body Keeps the Score) says Rolfing has been "the most helpful thing" in his own healing. He talks about carrying the experience of being a "sickly child" during WW2 in his body for a long time, and credits Rolfing with freeing his adult body to become flexible again. And Somatic Experiencing gives us even more ways to help people heal from trauma. It lets us to work with touch, but without soft tissue mobilization, when needed, and it allows us to be intentional about what trauma we choose to explore in a session. And it helps us work with tensions that are very current in the body's strategies--ones that don't respond to soft tissue work, or that do respond, but revert afterwards.