Lopa Sircar Voice & Rolfing

09/24/2025

One of the best things about Rolfing / Structural Integration is that it is a process that has a clean beginning, middle, and end: The Ten Series is just that -- 10 sessions that permit us to engage your fascia throughout your body: head to toe, side to side, front to back. The result is more ease, less pain, restored range of motion, and a (re)connection to your own resilience for these vastly tumultuous times.

I have two spots left this fall for anyone who would like to begin their Rolfing adventure -- and it is an adventure!

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Relieve chronic pain with Certified Rolfer Lopa Sircar in Vancouver.

07/04/2025

Hello, friends of voice and Rolfing! I have exciting news!

In addition to working out of the glorious Lee Building at Main and Broadway, on 14 July I will start working Mondays at Klinik, a health collective in the other heart of Mount Pleasant: Main and 17th!

Booking at Klinik will not only give you access to me, but a bevvy of skilled practitioners who can support you. SO looking forward to seeing you there!

On my updated web site you'll find:
- links to book at Klinik
- a section on how Rolfing can benefit you
- an updated FAQ

Enjoy!

Relieve chronic pain with Certified Rolfer Lopa Sircar in Vancouver.

04/16/2025

Folks! Co-facilitating any aspect of Diane Roberts' Arrivals Personal Legacy process with Diane and Rosemary Georgeson gives me BREATH and LIFE.

This work began transforming me twenty years ago and it isn't done with me yet! This work gives me steadiness and replenishes joy in my being. I call on it, especially now, in the preposterous and horrific times in which we live. This work is a salve, a restorer of courage, a celebration of past so we can plot the futures we want to achieve. Join us!

Diane Roberts, Rosemary Georgeson, and Lopa Sircar will be in Vancouver in May with Co.ERASGA! Don’t miss out.

This workshop invites you into an exploration of your root cultural voice, rhythm, and performance. Through this offering you will be invited to enter an embodied self-reflexive moment to engage your culturally storied bodies in a dynamic dance between self and other.

As a decolonising process, the Arrivals Personal Legacy process enacts an approach to research/creation that is geared toward particular centres of gravity—rooted in the body and infused by the spirit. It demands a level of engagement that asks the artist/researcher to step into a state of unknowing and to grapple with what is potentially unknowable.

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Tickets by donation: https://www.companyerasgadance.ca/currentproductions/exchanges-2025-with-diane-roberts

03/20/2025

You know how in Session 5 I'm always going on about the psoas as a sling that supports our walk? Here's a lovely visual and detailed description of the muscles involved in walking. You'll see that the writing refers to the iliopsoas, but as you watch the video you'll note the points at which your psoas is activated. SO AWESOME! It's my job as your Certified Rolfer to ensure your network of fascia supports your movement by sliding, gliding, and allowing your muscles to extend and contract freely. Book a session now and let's get walking!

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02/06/2025

Emotions are literally stored in your body—but not always in a physical sense by

Physically, our bodies mechanically react to certain emotional patterns, locking us into contraction during negative emotions.

For example, a depressed individual might subconsciously curve their torso, resulting in that emotional state being “stored” in the muscles and tissues responsible for the postural contraction.
But it goes deeper than that.

The human body has a measurable electromagnetic field, and our emotions function as magnetic fields within this system.

Because of fascia’s body-wide connection and semiconductive properties, it responds to these magnetic fields. This is why fascia not only facilitates communication but can also store information.

I can’t count how many times I’ve encountered patients in deep emotional states simply due to a session of myofascial release. This is the reason why.

Understand that the mind-body connection is a two-way street. The mind and body affect each other through your electromagnetic field. Fix one, and you’ll fix the other.

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01/29/2025

As a Rolfer, I work with your body's fascial system to generate ease, revive your range of motion, and restore your sense of balance and alignment. This is an excellent video to illustrate what fascia is. One of the authors of the quote, Robert Schleip, is also an incredible Rolfer.

https://www.facebook.com/PhysioOsteoBook/videos/1138884131299142

01/29/2025

Hello folks, I don't post very often on facebook and likely won't be. The best way to learn about Rolfing and book an appointment with me right here in Vancouver is my website: https://www.lopasircar.com/. If you'd like to book a voice session, here's my site for voice: https://lopasircarvoice.com/

Looking forward to seeing you!

Yin Yoga and Spoken Voice Coaching in the heart of Leiden A clear and authentic spoken voice is undeniably compelling. A grounded and dynamic body is undeniably beautiful. When you connect your enlivened body and your authentic voice, you can do more than make an impact: you can change your world. H...

10/19/2024

Yep, that's me and yep this this one's gonna be awesome :) So glad to be part of this work!!!

Masterclasses Arrivals Legacy Voice in partnership with Fountain School of Performing Arts, Dalhousie University Monday, October 21st to Friday, October

10/30/2021

This statement by Dr Ida Rolf indicates how important it is that the body prepares itself ideally for each movement we make (pre-movement). To support this pre-movement, it helps to:

• be aware of the ground below and surrounding space
• align the body symmetrically
• feel the position of hands, arms, feet, joints, head and neck.

By being aware of this, you can see how unfavourable movement patterns can be discovered and correct them with little effort.

09/29/2021

For some reason the image won't appear but this article is very much worth reading. Yes, yoga and Rolfing go very much hand in hand :)

https://rolfing.org/articles/blog/yoga-and-rolfing-go-hand-in-hand?FB&fbclid=IwAR2HJz7B_DGduX6DThQ9v91ZNm47dLfAnDoFG5nGtInwV306wmApWJKG5XY

As someone who practices Yoga, why did you choose to become a Rolfer®? Yoga and Rolfing® go very much hand in hand.

04/24/2021

Diane Roberts's Arrivals Legacy Project changed and enriched my life in innumerable ways. Diane's work is everything and essential in these heart-crushing times. I'm so excited to co-facilitate Arrivals Legacy Voice with Diane next month at the Moving Voice Institute's Awakening the Body's Voice. Join us for this incredible experience!

🔊We are less than TWO WEEKS away from launching AWAKENING THE BODY'S VOICE!

Visit www.poundspersquareinch.net to register!

Meet Diane Roberts leading ARRIVALS LEGACY VOICE on May 29th at 12:00pm EDT with Lopa Sircar! Co-presented by Arrivals Legacy Project.

Diane Roberts is an accomplished director, dramaturge, writer and cultural animator, who has collaborated with innovative theatre visionaries and interdisciplinary artists for the past 30 years. Her directorial and dramaturgical work has been seen on stages across Canada and her reputation as a mentor, teacher and community collaborator is nationally and internationally recognized.

Diane’s celebrated Arrivals Personal Legacy Project, developed during her 7-year tenure as Artistic Director of Urban Ink productions, has birthed new Interdisciplinary works across Canada, throughout the Americas, in the UK, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. This work has allowed her to articulate, cultivate and realise a vision for theatre that encourages Indigenous ways of knowing as a steppingstone to creative expression. She is a founding member of Obsidian Theatre and backforward collective, Founder of The Arrivals Legacy Project and co-founder and Artistic Director of Boldskool Productions with playwright Omari Newton.

Alongside her professional career, Diane is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Studies, Fine Arts Humanities at Concordia University in Montreal; a 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar; and a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship award holder.

📷 Photo by William Yong