Welcome to the Performers Gallery, here you will find a few celebrities who have benefited from Structural Integration.

 

Virtuoso Concert Pianist, Leon Fleisher began playing the piano at the age of 4. He made his public debut at age 8 and played with the New York Philharmonic under Pierre Monteux at 16. After his early and spectacular success, Fleisher effectively lost the use of his right hand due to a punishing schedule of practice and performing. A loss such as this is not uncommon in highly skilled musicians; some say it is due to repetitive stress disorder or focal dystonia. While trying all the traditional, and some not so traditional treatments, Fleisher channeled his passion for the piano into teaching, conducting, and performing pieces for the left hand. His career, though hampered by his injury, continued to flourish. The picture shows the album cover of the celebration of a great musician's return from one-armed pianism to the two-handed kind, after an interval of decades. In 1995, Fleisher's piano playing made headlines once again, doing what most pianists take for granted: He performed a composition for both hands. Ten months before, at the prompting of his wife, Fleisher began seeing a Certified Advanced Rolfer who manipulated the connective tissue of his hand and forearm (where the muscles of the fingers begin) and taught him how to release the contractions of playing after each practice session. Gradually the structures of his right hand began to respond. If you ask Leon Fleisher how to get to Carnegie Hall, he will tell you. "Practice, practice, practice, rest and see a Rolfer!" Leon Fleisher: "Rolfing has been stretching out muscle fibres that haven't been stretched for 30 years. When I started, my muscle fibres felt like petrified rock. Now they are getting progressively softer, more supple and gain elasticity."

Country music legend and songwriter Willie Nelson: "My wife recommended Rolfing highly", says Willie Nelson, "...The first of ten sessions fixed my back pain," reported the New York Times, on Feb. 23, 1995.

Actor LeVar Burton: "The Rolfer works on fascia which is the thin sheath of white tissue that covers the musculature. By manipulating the fascia you manipulate the musculature, and in turn the skeletal structure, so you bring alignment to the body... It can be very healing, cleansing and balancing for the body." Oprah - July 7, 1996

Sam Keen, best-selling writer, is a former Psychology Today editor and co-producer of award winning PBS documentary "Faces of the Enemy". "Bodywork has allowed me at age 65 to live as vigorously as I want to, in an embodied way. Nine months ago I started studying flying trapeze work, and I couldn’t have done it without Rolfing." When Sam Keen spoke of Dr. Ida Rolf as a true pioneer in his early Psychology Today 1970's article, Rolfing bodywork gained international attention. Now thirty years later, Keen benefits by making Rolfing a part of his own health care regimen, to stay aligned, fit and flexible for his flying trapeze work.

 

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