ABOUT HAVEN

I learned about Rolfing® when I was in high school and had a session during volleyball season. During the session, I quickly found that Rolfing® had been just the thing I had been longing for. The practitioner talked to me about what it was that I experienced in my body, as though I was the authority, which I had never experienced in quite the same way. When she worked on my low back and hips, it was deep work that felt like each spot she touched was "the spot". I likened it to the feeling -when you attempt to work on yourself, how you can get so precisely on it, but there is always a cranking or a compromising of another part of your body that makes it feel like its adding new ache as you try to find ease- only with Rolfing® there isn't that compromise. 

After graduating high school I had briefly considered becoming a Rolfer™ but had always been eager to go to college. So after a gap year traveling and waiting tables. I attended Lewis and Clark College. I was pursuing a Sociology and Anthropology degree to follow my passion for observing and attempting to understand the complexities of the human experience. I was studying abroad in the Spring of 2020 and got pulled home amidst the chaos of the pandemic. I had to finish that semester online and struggled through it, as listening during class had always been my strong suit. I decided that online classes for private school tuition didn't feel like a choice I wanted to make and began to explore who I was if I wasn't a student, while I reconsidered what direction to go. I was living in Portland and working a retail job that allowed me lots of time to explore my personal practice. I took an online meditation course, then I took it again before taking the advanced class and repeating it as well. I started running with an entirely different energy than I had ever approached it with before. In the past, I had mostly run because I had to or because I thought I should. When running became an exploratory/meditative experience I fell in love with letting my legs swing. It was around then that I remembered Rolfing®. 

When I went to apply to the Institute, I discovered that my path to becoming a Rolfer™ was kismet. I would not have been able to apply right out of high school, 60 college credits were required. Conveniently aligned, at the time I went to apply, I had 64.