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Rolfing can help with so many things. From chronic pain, rehab for/from old injuries and scar tissue to simply feeling more like yourself again after major life changes. Is it time to book a session or three? Maybe it's time for a major tune-up i.e. a 10-series. Rolfing can be an invitation to reconnect with yourself in a whole new way. To let go of patterns and habits that may have been helpful at some point but now are keeping you stuck. Book your first session and let's get you un-stuck.
Beth is happy to offer her Advanced Rolfing® Structural Integration and myofascial release expertise in beautiful Wilmington NC. Rolfing helps you move and feel better by targeting lingering patterns of tension and bracing that can cause chronic pain. 25 years in practice as a Certified Rolfer. Adv...
07/17/2025
🙌💗💃🏼 Feeling pretty sparkly today after a session from my Rolfing colleague Sean Kengla yesterday. What I like best about this work is the new conversation w myself about my body after a good session. Sometimes the clinician needs help too. Bodies are to be celebrated and that's what I'm feeling today. Happy body.. 🤩 Thanks Sean!
(I'll post some deets when he's ready for clients. Soon soon.)
05/27/2025
🌊❤️Getting curious about 'what is.'
It took me forever, in my practice as a bodyworker to really get it. To understand what we're actually doing in a series of Rolfing® sessions. Because we live in a culture that wants to be fixed from our brokenness, that wants answers, wants a pill, or whatever, to make ourselves feel better, it's super easy to fall into trying to fix people. To keep looking at the symptoms and ply away, trying to assuage the hurts part, but many times that's not where it's at. (And sometimes it is!💥)
Rolfing sessions are different from massage precisely because of this; we are helping you attune your physical, mental, emotional self into more cohesive patterns via your participation and awareness of your entire connected physical body. Sounds complicated but it’s not. I’ll give you a short cut; come to your senses ~ See it, hear it, touch it, smell it, taste it. This is how we know, how our nervous system knows, we exist. Stay in this moment. Be curious about what's happening in your body and just be with it. (Check out link in comments for wave sounds. So nice.) Be silent and hold space for whatever comes up, without judgment or labeling. Just be.
05/19/2025
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Breathe—we do all day, every day. Mostly without thinking. In your first session with a Rolfer, you'll become aware of your breathing habits: whether you’re using your diaphragm, the key muscle of respiration, or relying on the upper thoracic muscles. A lot of us are stuck in . This quick video helps you check for yourself, without pathologizing or overanalyzing, and make corrections. Michelle Edmison is the real deal.
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03/31/2025
🐒👣 “Manual therapy has been with us from antiquity; before that, it evolved biologically as social grooming in primates/ pre-language humans. All the neurologic pathways for appreciating touch and handling from another are still all there in humans, free just for being vertebrates.” Diane Jacobs
Come find out how Rolfing® might help you move and feel better in just a few sessions. Let's see if we are a good fit for working together to get you out of pain, regardless the origin. Book a 3 series of Rolfing® Structural Integration during the month of April and receive a fantastic discount. Let's get started. Call today!
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I was introduced to and attended a class taught by Diane Jacobs back in 2016 and it significantly changed the way I think about bodywork and manual therapy. The premise that we are actually physically changing fascial tissues by stretching or manipulating techniques had been under scrutiny since before I started this Rolfing stuff in the year 2000. It's much simpler than that but also more complicated and nuanced and involves LOADS of nervous system interaction. Still the same hands on and still slow and guided. The biggest takeaway was; safety is primary as is the therapeutic relationship between client and practitioner. The work still works but my idea of HOW THAT HAPPENS was a big fat AHA!
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03/23/2025
Because sometimes, we just need beauty.
JULIE: "Ama is a silent film. It tells a story everyone can interpret in their own way, based on their own experience. There is no imposition, only suggestio...
12/26/2024
Maybe you've heard about Rolfing® Structural Integration but you have no idea what it involves. No it's not excruciating and no it wasn't invented by an alien civilization.👽🤣It's way simpler, far less painful and WAY less weird than you've heard through any sideways grapevine from someone who's never even experienced it. Find out for yourself. Go see a Rolfer®!
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Description
The hallmark of Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) is a standardized “recipe” known as the Rolfing Ten-Series™, the goal of which is to systematically balance and optimize both the structure (shape) and function (movement) of the entire body over the course of ten Rolfing sessions.
Each Rolfing® SI session focuses on freeing restrictions or holdings trapped in a particular region of the body. A practitioner also maintains a holistic view of the client’s entire system during each session, thus ensuring that the transformational process evolves in a comfortable and harmonious way.
Once completed, the wisdom of the Rolfing Ten Series will drive and support the body with health for years to come.
Happy Solstice, Holidays and Merry Christmas Y'all.⭐️
12/21/2024
In case someone needs a little self-help during the holidays and doesnt know how to reach out for it.💝
Confession ~ I didn't sign up for Rolfing® sessions 28 years ago to fix an old injury or some horrible physical pain. I signed up to fix another more mysterious kind of pain - anxiety and depression. I wasn't in a very good head-space at the time. Life.
The therapy couch wasn't enough and I'd heard about this new age body-mind idea, that our emotions are somehow stored in our body. So I decided to try a different route. The short of it; the process of going through Rolfing Structural Integration sessions way back when gave me a whole new attitude about myself and my circumstances.💪 The physical, mental, emotional and social were more in sync than they'd ever been and they stayed that way. To this day it's still why I seek out sessions, whenever I've lost my mojo, but I also find it helps me keep from feeling old and cranky in my body. Go see a Rolfer, if you can. They will help you feel and move better. If not, here's some things that I guarantee will help you get through the season. .
Warmest wishes to all of you,
Beth
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Currently just me, Beth Burgin- Advanced Rolfer™ & bodywork therapist in practice since 2000. (NC-lmbt#1532) I seriously lucked into this vocation. My boredom threshold is quite low so imagine my delight in finding something both fascinating and never-ending in detail to sink my teeth into. There’s no way to learn all there is to know about human bodies, ever... we are truly amazing creatures.
I didn't find this work because of some calamitous injury or particularly bothersome physical issue that needed fixing. It was the psychological concept of the body-mind that perked my interest about Rolfing® Structural Integration. The idea of working with the mind via the body; hmm, really? Well interactive body-work certainly sounded like more fun than a therapy couch ever would so off we went to find a Rolfer and learn more.
Structural Integration is a total hands-on therapy that ideally helps you move more freely and in a state of flow with life again. Together we’ll explore ways to free up habitual patterns of movement that might be causing discomfort or limiting your range of motion (perhaps on many levels.) When you move better you feel better, when you feel better you think better. Keep that flow going, turn a corner one day and your life is just better! Who doesn't want to feel better right? So we start with the physical body and get it more functional, hopefully less painful and then you get to go on and explore the possibilities and potentials of a body and a life that isn't resisting “what is.”
Full-disclosure; after several years of intensive continuous education it was time to step back and let everything sink in... so I did. A recent sabbatical and much observation time became inevitable. It was necessary, painful, messy as hell at times yet ultimately rewarding. Finally on the other side, the world and its people and its systems are once again fodder for fascination again. Happy and grateful to be of service in Our collective evolution again!
Here are pertinent influences of my hands and heart the last 20 years if you’re curious;
Self and expert guided Research on the mechanisms of change for manual therapy | Curiosity + Focus + Persistence = New understandings, less non-sense.
DNM- Dermoneuromodulation| Diane Jacobs
Neural Mobilization|Jon Martine and Rey Allen
Advanced Rolfing, E.R.A. Germany/Italy | Peter Schwind and Christoph Sommer
Manual Articular Spine and Pelvis| Jean Pierre Barral
Visceral Manipulation VM1 thru VM6| The Barral Institute
Functional Movement Integration| Monica Caspari, Kevin Frank, Caryn McHose
Biomechanics of Alignment| Liz Gaggini
Basic Rolfing certification from The Rolf Institute Of Structural Integration| Boulder, CO
Basic manual therapy training| A.R.E., Cayce-Reilly, Virginia Beach, VA
