My salsa dance teacher, Ms. Mitsue, was receiving it, and I became interested in Rolfing. Ever since I became a working adult, I kept drifting from one massage or seitai place to another. I disliked the feeling that massage and seitai would not heal unless I kept going back, but the fact that Rolfing finishes in ten sessions was attractive.
After receiving Rolfing, not only did my stiff shoulders and low-back pain ease, but dancing also became easier. When I danced salsa right after a treatment or the next day, the men I danced with often praised me — saying my axis was really stable, that I was easy to dance with (laugh). As I received it each time, I became able to feel the axis in my body. What I had not understood when told during a lesson, in words alone, to “be aware of the axis,” I came, through the body, to understand my axis.
Also, through the ten sessions, I had the experience that when the body changes, consciousness changes. Thanks in part to that, the work that I had lost motivation for and had come to want to quit — I did not quit it, and I was able to face myself.
Also, relationships at the company improved. I recommend it both to people who do not do dance and to people who do.
