Welcome to the Minneapolis Rolfing Center!
My name is Mark Powell, and I’m one of Minneapolis’ longest-practicing veterans of Rolfing Structural Integration (since 1997).
Rolfing relieves pain.
Over the years I’ve helped legions of clients—many referred to me by Minneapolis doctors and chiropractors—with every kind of pain: back, neck, hip, knee, shoulder, and more.
To relieve pain, I work slowly, deeply, mindfully, and systematically with your myofascial tissues (muscle and fascia, or connective tissue), creating space and balance in compressed, misaligned joints.
I lengthen and release tight, shortened muscles and tendons; ease torsions, rotations, and other dysfunctions; “melt” tough, dry, hard tissues; and unwind tension patterns that are “stuck” in the web-works of fascia throughout your structure. This work creates balanced, easeful relationships between the segments of your body.
Mark Powell, Certified Rolfer.
Uptown, Minneapolis
Rolfing is the classic therapy for creating a free, pliant, spacious body.
People without pain receive Rolfing, too. They come to me because they simply want greater vitality, ease and fluidity.
After receiving Rolfing, clients typically report feeling light, spacious, different—like they’ve just gotten free of a wetsuit that was two sizes too small. They feel younger!
Rolfing helps you breathe more freely, move more effortlessly, and enjoy more energy.
After their sessions, people often report breathing more freely, because the Rolfing work has unbound their rib cage and diaphragm. Clients frequently say they feel more relaxed and are sleeping more soundly. This relaxation, easeful movement, and freed-up breath often leads to more energy.
Many professional athletes–for instance in the NFL and the NBA–get Rolfing regularly. I work with golfers, bike riders, tennis player, yoga practitioners, runners and others who find that Rolfing makes them more pliant, fluid, and resilient, and gives them greater range of motion.
Interestingly, some clients even mention psychological changes from Rolfing. Because, as the saying goes, “our issues are in our tissues.”
Rolfing changes your shape.
As before and after photos show, Rolfing makes people’s bodies straighter, longer, more open and aligned. You look more confident. And you move with greater freedom and grace. The “Rolfed body” is no longer, in Ida Rolf’s words, “at war with gravity.” Check out this article I wrote on how Rolfing changes your shape.
ROLFING® DOES NOT HURT!
In the 1960s and 1970s Rolfing gained a reputation for being painful. But Rolfing has evolved dramatically since then. It’s become much more elegant and nuanced. I work very deeply, but even my most sensitive clients find their sessions to be profoundly relaxing and enjoyable. In addition, you, the client, are always in charge. It’s your session, and if the work is ever deeper than you like, just let me know. Read more about that here.
“I just felt light, like I wasn’t touching the ground when I was walking. My movement felt more fluid.” RS, Restaurateur