This was a very different day altogether.

As I said before, I'm going through this in the classroom with a student rolfer, so I should have assumed that he wouldn't always hit the right spots easily... I was getting such interesting results though, that I had almost forgotten the major things I had wanted fixed from the beginning, which still hadn't been addressed much until this session.

Each session, an instructor has looked at us at the beginning of the class and directed the student rolfing us as to what should be done and how... This time, a different instructor looked at me, and after explaining my problems (inner thigh overstretched, shoulder injury, tight right side abdomen), she knew exactly what should be done to fix them, and came by numerous times during the session to direct my rolfer to the right places and techniques.

I am extremely happy after this session. She got him to work on the inside of my left thigh, which had been overstretched in '98 doing kung-fu in China. She found the problems immediately and it was pretty tough to take the work in that spot, but later I realized that the injury I'd had for years was about 60%-80% improved! She also found after asking me about my shoulder and feeling around it that my arm's not sitting in the socket correctly. Spot on, as the brits would say... ;)

They both also examined the rotation and relative positions of each of the lumbar vertebrae today, and it was hard for my rolfer to figure out what was going on initially, but she slowly went through it with him until he got what was going on... They had me arch back, forward, and to the side, while feeling the right and left edges of each vertebra. Apparently, this allows them to feel whether the vertebra is turned to the left or right, or off kilter, so they know how to adjust the surrounding structures... It was very technical, and I'm sure they'll have a lot of intricate work to do to fix each vertebra in succesion...

We ran out of time at this point, but I felt very happy to know that these things will be addressed well before I get to the end. I don't expect everything to be perfect, but if these things can be improved substantially I'll be ecstatic.

I have another session tomorrow. I hope they can get my shoulder back in the right spot... That would make me feel like a million bucks. :)