{"id":117176,"date":"2014-10-15T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-woman-offers-body-alignment\/"},"modified":"2014-10-15T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T00:30:00","slug":"dolores-woman-offers-body-alignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-woman-offers-body-alignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores woman offers body alignment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Nikki
Nikki Gillespie<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

For 16 years, Dolores resident Nikki Gillespie has been a massage therapist and though she still it, she says she can offer something even better for the body.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called Rolfing, and Gillespie became certified in it 10 months ago.<\/p>\n

Rolfing is an alternative to massage offered through the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration, which has a training center in Colorado Springs. The institute states that Rolfing is a \u201cholistic system of soft-tissue manipulation and movement education that organizes the whole body in gravity\u201d.<\/p>\n

The method was developed by Ida Rolf in 1920. She was very interested in tissue and movement and connective tissue.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a long time, they didn\u2019t pay attention to connective tissue. But it\u2019s all over our body. Everything is covered in our connective tissue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gillespie said that by paying attention to the connective tissue and retraining people how to sit and walk appropriately, she has seen Rolfing transform people.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur bodies are made to operate in a certain way,\u201d Gillespie said.<\/p>\n

Gillespie said we often walk the way our parents walked, or walk letting stress or injuries dictate how we hold our bodies.<\/p>\n

Se works with the patient to fix those problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an educational process in movement,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Gillespie obviously works out the muscle and tissue problems, but she works with the patient so that doesn\u2019t happen again.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith a massage, I would work with that person\u2019s shoulder, for example, but they would come back again, because they were sitting wrong at work,\u201dshe said.<\/p>\n

A typical Rolfing session lasts for 10 different sessions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI go through your entire body,\u201d she said. \u201cWe take it apart and put it back together.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is a little like putting a puzzle together.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody has a different piece of their body where they are stuck,\u201d Gillespie said.<\/p>\n

How does rolfing feel?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has a reputation for being painful,\u201d Gillespie said. \u201cBut it isn\u2019t. I work with the patient and listen to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

She gave a short demonstration on this author\u2019s shoulder.<\/p>\n

It felt like a nice stretch. One of those big Sunday morning stretches, a little painful, but necessary and oh, so good.<\/p>\n

In fact, after she was done with the shoulder, it felt the rest of my body needed Rolfing too.<\/p>\n

Gillespie had Rolfing done to herself after knee surgery. After the surgery, she had the tendency to avoid the knee altogether and therefore throw the rest of her body off balance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt helped me so much,\u201d she said. \u201cIt forced me to start walking on my knee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gillespie is the only certified person in Rolfing in Montezuma County.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really like helping people get out of pain,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Information: Four Corners Rolfing, Nikki Gillespie, 102 E. North St., Cortez, 882-8850<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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