Tiverton Yoga and Rolfing

25/02/2026

Online Yoga class tonight Wednesday8.00-9.00pm message me for a link.
Sideways. What can we learn from moving into the sides of the body? From ankle to jaw, an exploration of the meeting of the front and the back at the 'side seams' of the body.

22/02/2026

Between sessions, clients often notice subtle shifts long before the bigger changes take shape.

A different sense of balance while waiting in line.
A lighter stride on a morning walk.
An unexpected ease when reaching for something on a high shelf.

These small, everyday moments can say a lot about how the work is integrating.

💫 For Certified Rolfers®:
What’s a “small shift” a client shared between sessions that told you integration was underway? A detail they almost overlooked, but you knew mattered?

Share your experience in the comments.

12/02/2026

I am teaching some lovely yoga/movement work on this Writer's retreat with the wonderful Lucy Greeves at Ashley Court 28th Feb- 1st March. Banish the February blues and march into March with your notebook in hand and your senses tingling by combining accessible and easy movement practice with inspirational writing prompts. Get that book out of your head and onto the page.
Bookings and full information via Ashley Court
https://www.ashleycourtdevon.co.uk/product/writing-and-movement-retreat/

14/01/2026

The table offers the clearest view of a client’s structure. But the way someone moves through daily life fills in the rest of the picture.

A comment about how they stand while cooking, how they carry groceries, how they walk the dog, or how their body feels during a stressful week can reveal the real-world patterns that shape their experience in gravity.

These moments outside the session room often deepen the practitioner’s understanding of what the body is organizing around.

✨ For Certified Rolfers®:
What’s an everyday pattern or story a client shared that gave you important insight into their structure or shifted how you approached the next session?

Share your experience in the comments.

14/01/2026

A new study shows that simple posture changes - 30 minutes sitting, 15 minutes standing - can support back comfort, focus and well-being.

Study: Brakenridge et al. (2025): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41124790/
Longevity also means staying capable and comfortable in your work life. Small everyday choices can help maintain your energy and prevent overload.

Rolfing® Structural Integration helps people understand how posture, fascia and movement interact - supporting ease and sustainable body use over time.

👉 What is Rolfing: https://rolfing.org/what-is-rolfing

14/01/2026

This is my Rolfing Room in Tiverton. Rolfing is a unique form of bodywork that feels like 20 years of yoga applied in one hit! Dr Ida Rolf’s pioneering work relating to fascia (a type of connective tissue) in our bodies has revolutionised the treatment of pain, mobility issues, posture, orientation, perception and sense of self across a huge range of disciplines. You can benefit from a single 90 minute session, take a mini-series of 3 to help re-set the body or do the traditional 10 session series for a full MOT for your body to start the new year.
I am an Advanced Rolfer with a 30 year background in yoga teaching. I help people of all ages to become pain-free and begin to move better and feel better every day. How can I help you?

04/01/2026

Rolfing explores aspects of embodied movement and posture that other disciplines just don’t reach. For me, this has been an incredible journey of discovery. I share what I understand of Ida Rolf’s system in person and on-line.

“Support is not a thing; it’s a process. It’s the way we are in relationship with the ground, with gravity, and with our own vertical dimension.” - Mary Bond, from the article “Support Is a Balance of Elements That Are Not Solid at All” (Structure, Function, Integration Journal, June 2025)

Movement educator and long-time Rolf Movement™ teacher Mary Bond reflects on what true balance means in the human body. She explains that support doesn’t come from holding ourselves up – it arises from how we relate to space, gravity and movement.

Her insight beautifully echoes Ida P. Rolf’s timeless idea: “Support is relationship. Support is a balance of elements that aren’t solid at all.”

🌀 Read the full interview by Rolfer® Dorothy Miller in the June 2025 issue of the Structure, Function, Integration Journal – available on Amazon.

Find out more about Rolfing® Structural Integration: https://rolfing.org/what-is-rolfing

04/01/2026

Yoga with Tara Fraser at The Old Heathcoat School Community Centre, Tiverton. Monday 9.00-10.00am and Tuesday 5.30-6.30pm the New Year half term starts 5th January. Open to all levels of fitness and experience, go your own pace, suitable for beginners. Learn lovely ways to move that make you feel good, improve mobility, mood and strength. Wear what you like and come as you are. Borrow a mat from me or bring your own. Nice warm room with natural daylight, a perfect way to beat the winter blues!
£60 for 6 weeks or drop in for £13 a class.

I have been teaching yoga for over 30 years and combine my yoga experience with insights from my work as an advanced Rolfer (Structural Integration, fascia fitness). Message me here if you have any questions. If you already attend these classes please let other people know what you like about them in the comments!

31/12/2025

15 years ago I had my first Rolfing session, it changed everything about how I feel and think.

💬 “Years ago, I had a series of Rolfing® sessions – it changed how I feel and move in my body ever since. So much emotion released, and even my posture and body shape began to change.” - Claudia M.

Rolfing® Structural Integration invites you to experience your body with new awareness and ease – to realign, reconnect and rediscover your natural coherence in gravity.

✨ Experience it for yourself – find a Rolfer® near you: https://rolfing.org/find-rolfer

12/11/2025

12/11/2025

Becoming a Certified Rolfer™ starts with your own body.
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Before you ever place your hands on someone else, you experience the Rolfing Ten-Series® as a client. Ten sessions that reorganize your posture, movement, and awareness from the inside out.
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By receiving the work yourself, you begin to understand the pace, rhythm, and intention of each session. You feel what it means to move with alignment, to breathe with more space, and to stand supported by gravity.
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This is where every Rolfer™ begins.
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Learn more about becoming a Certified Rolfer through the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute® in Colorado.