“Rolfing is an intensely therapeutic system of healing that we can all benefit from. Elise Purcell is an outstanding trained practitioner of this work. Get Rolfed by Elise and experience Longevity Now!”

– David Wolfe, author of The Sunfood Diet Success System, Eating For Beauty, Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future, davidwolfe.com, thebestdayever.com, ftpf.org

“Elise has a very sweet, welcoming, and uplifting personality. Its very easy to feel safe and comfortable with her. She has a good understanding of anatomy and pathology, good connection skills, and a natural touch that is both deep and sensitive. I found my sessions with her to be very enjoyable and beneficial. If youre looking for bodywork, I would definitely recommend her.”

– Daniel Schmachtenberger, Founder of Strategic Global Solutions, lecturer, and teacher at Body Mind College

“I can’t say enough good things about Elise.  The 10 series made great improvements in my posture, balance, flexibility and athletic performance.  Due to chondromalacia patella, I have had chronic knee pain for over 25 years and had gel injected into my knees monthly to reduce the pain.  After the 10 series, my knee pain has abated substantially, and I have reduced my injections to every other month.  My pain is no longer constantly in the forefront of my mind, which is an incredible and life changing improvement for me.

As a competitive martial artist, after working with Elise I went on to win the 2009 Chinese Martial Arts World Championship.  Certainly hard work played a part in my competitive improvement, but the increase in balance and flexibility played a big part as well.”

– Tai Seibert, 2009 Tai Chi Push Hands World Champion

“Great results, expertise, high integrity… After many years of totally neglecting the structure and alignment of my body, surfing and everything else had taken a toll on my hips and back… Elise was able to place everything back in its proper alignment and eliminate what had been chronic aches that I thought were just part of life. I would strongly recommend her to anyone who is suffering from the pains of having too much fun without the prerequisite maintenance.”

– Paul Barnes, Division President of Shea Homes San Diego

– Ida P. Rolf, Ph.D.

How it Works

The body is not a unit; it is an aggregate of units-head, thorax, pelvis, legs, etc.-and it is this total sum of units as which we must interpret as a single unit. Those parts may function well or less well, depending on how the units are put together as a whole body.

The body operates on energy, with energy, by energy: creating its own energy and receiving energy from the outside. A body is an individual energy machine. When you add the parts together of that machine appropriately or inappropriately, energy is either added or subtracted from the whole of the machine.

When some of those parts are not functioning properly (ex: wrist, back, neck, ankle hip, jaw) the entire body or person as a whole begins to suffer, like the sprained ankle example discussed in the “About S.I.” section.

Although it is not the goal of the work, Structural Integration tends to “fix” these maladies. By the end of the 10 Series or shortly after, it is not uncommon for a lower back that has hurt for years to miraculously be free of pain or for someone who cannot run because of a chronic ankle pain to be able to run on a regular basis again. People tend to have more energy. They feel better.

Human beings can change. One does that by changing the structure which in turn changes the function, because structure determines function to a great degree. But it does not just stop there.

Once the structure is aligned, the body can then function greater as a whole with full expansional balance. This is where the core of the work is. We make space and differentiate, so that we can lengthen and organize, all in order to integrate on a higher level and expand exponentially.

And if we in turn move from this place of expansion, from the torso out through the new balanced joints we have achieved during the process, we are changing and almost “tricking” gravity…from being the source of declination of time and age to being the source of energy and proliferation.