Tickets: Free for Hearth members, open to non-members
We’ll dive a little in the legacy of bio-chemist and body worker Ida Rolf. Rolf intuited the ‘fascia system’ (our web of connective tissue) and its function way before science caught up with her. And was part of a paradigm shift in understanding our bodies. The term ‘fascia’ took its time to build meaning in the fitness and health industries and is only just moving into meaning for our everyday lives.
Rolf acknowledged a common ‘sleepiness’ in modern humans in what is now known as the ‘propulsive’ phase of our walking pattern in the ‘fascia network’.
We’ll explore this playfully with Hayley. And hear and discover how we can wake up this part of us with care, anchored as it is in the big toe. And that when we do, blood and lymph flow and lift comes through our bodies in a ‘fountain of youth’.
If we have time, and someone would like to model, Hayley will demo how we can open and ‘unstick’ this fascia train in a one-to-one Rolfing session.
Hayley Matthews
Rolfer - Structural Integrator
Hayley is a body worker (Rolfer - Structural Integrator) certified by the Rolf Institute, Boulder Colarado and Dr Ida Rolf Association, Munich, Germany. And a professional contemporary Dancer.
She has recently opened for Rolfing appointments at The Hearth, London, once a month.
As a Rolfer she works with clients one-to-one to access and transform their motor and neural patterning. To come out of pain and discomfort, move through injury and trauma, and orient in their continued growth, centring their body in a more easeful and flourishing life.
As a professional Dancer Hayley performs in wild space, regularly in the far woods of North London, and takes this work to other wilds around the world. She leads an earth - wide feminist movement for women dancers to re-wild their craft, called ‘Sanctuary on the Fault Line’.
Hayley also makes music as vocalist and flutist, and at times percussionist, with collaborators of ‘Murmura’, who make territories of sound, dance, image and experience, and sound scores for Hayley’s dance work.
In this way she takes up many corners of her selfhood, often referring to herself professionally as ‘a polyphony’.
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