Rolfing® & Integrative Bodywork in Boulder
If you’re carrying tension that won’t release, pain that keeps returning, or a body that feels stuck in old patterns—Rolfing® Structural Integration offers a different approach. This isn’t about temporary relief. It’s about reorganizing your body’s foundational support system so you can move, breathe, and inhabit your life with greater ease.
Alison Litchfield is a Certified Rolfer® serving Boulder and the Denver metro area.
Not Sure If It’s For You? Try It First.
Rolfing is a powerful commitment to your body, but you don’t have to commit to everything at once. I want you to feel confident that this approach is right for you.
- Try a Single Session
Experience the work and feel the difference in your body with just one appointment.
- The Mini-Series
Commit to just sessions 1–3 of the traditional Ten Series. If it doesn’t feel like the right fit, you can stop there with no further obligation.
This work is about your agency and what feels right for your body.
Understanding the Rolfing® 10-Series
The Rolfing® 10-Series is a systematic, whole-body approach to structural integration that, over time, brings your body into greater alignment with gravity.
Rather than treating isolated symptoms, the series works progressively through the body’s fascial network, addressing patterns of tension, compensation, and imbalance that have developed over years or decades. Each session builds on the one before it, allowing changes to integrate gradually and sustainably.
The goal is not perfection, but greater ease, adaptability, and support for daily life.
Starting Before the Full Series
You do not need to commit to all ten sessions upfront.
Many clients choose to begin with:
- A single session to experience the work and Alison’s approach
- A mini-series (sessions 1–3) to explore early structural changes and determine readiness for deeper work
This phased approach honors your body’s timing and supports informed choice.
Continuing After the 10-Series
For many people, the 10-Series marks a beginning rather than an endpoint.
After completing the series, clients often continue with:
- Single integration sessions for maintenance, stress, or life transitions
- Three-session integration series to address new patterns, injuries, or evolving needs
Post-series work helps maintain alignment, deepen body awareness, and support ongoing nervous system regulation.
What is Integrative Bodywork?
An Integrative Bodywork Session is designed to help clients translate meaningful insights from psychedelic experiences or transformative experiences into lasting change through the wisdom of the body.
While psychedelic journeys can offer profound shifts in awareness, many people find it challenging to fully integrate those experiences into daily life. Emotions, memories, nervous system responses, and physical holding patterns often continue to live in the body long after the journey has ended.
This session provides a safe, trauma-informed space to slow down, listen, and support the integration process through embodied practices.
Sessions may include:
- Somatic awareness and body-based inquiry
- Nervous system regulation and resilience-building practices
- Breathwork to support grounding, presence, and emotional processing
- Gentle yoga and therapeutic movement
- Structural and fascial bodywork to address tension and holding patterns
- Mindfulness and interoceptive awareness practices
- Development of sustainable integration tools and daily practices
Each session is tailored to the individual and may combine hands-on bodywork with guided movement, breath awareness, and nervous system education.
This work serves as a body-centered complement to therapeutic and psychedelic healing by helping clients integrate insight through awareness, movement, breath, and embodied experience.
Bodywork & Yoga: A Powerful Complement
Structural work and yoga share a deep lineage. Dr. Ida Rolf’s understanding of the body was significantly informed by her own yoga practice, and the two modalities complement each other beautifully.
- Foundational Support: Rolfing creates the structural freedom that allows yoga poses to express themselves fully.
- Accelerated Progress: Many practitioners find that Rolfing unlocks restrictions that years of stretching alone haven't shifted.
Alison’s Experience: Before becoming a Rolfer, Alison was a dedicated yoga practitioner. She found that the 10 sessions of Rolfing gave her a sense of release and freedom that might have taken 10 years to achieve through yoga alone.
Today, she brings that same potential for acceleration to her clients. Alisons apprach is to meet the individual where they are. She uses her background to help yogis and movers integrate the structural changes of Rolfing into their daily practice for lasting transformation.
Benefits of Rolfing
Rolfing can support your body and nervous system in multiple ways:
- Reduced chronic pain in the back, neck, shoulders, hips, and joints
- Improved posture and structural alignment with gravity
- Greater ease of movement and whole-body coordination
- Increased body awareness and connection to internal signals
- Released tension patterns held in fascia from stress, injury, or repetitive habits
- Better breathing capacity through improved ribcage and diaphragm mobility
- Enhanced athletic performance and recovery from injury
- Nervous system regulation as the body finds steadier structural support
- Lasting results that continue to integrate between sessions and beyond the 10-Series
Many clients describe feeling taller, lighter, and more “at home” in their bodies after completing the Rolfing 10-Series.
What to Expect During Rolfing
Before Your Appointment
Come wearing comfortable clothing you can move in—athletic wear or undergarments work well, as Rolfing involves visual assessment and hands-on work. Your practitioner needs to see and access areas being addressed, so loose clothing that allows movement is ideal.
Before your first session, you’ll discuss your goals, health history, and any areas of pain or restriction. This is collaborative work—your input and feedback throughout the process are essential.
During the Session
A typical Rolfing session lasts 75 minutes. Your Rolfer will assess your posture, movement patterns, and tissue quality through visual observation and hands-on palpation. You’ll spend time on a massage table while your practitioner uses specific techniques to release restrictions in your fascia.
Remember, you are always in control—let your practitioner know if you need to adjust pressure or positioning.
After Your Session
Many people feel more mobile, relaxed, and spacious in their bodies immediately after a session. Some experience mild soreness for a day or two as the body adapts to new alignment—similar to exercise soreness. This is normal and part of the integration process.
Sessions are typically spaced 1-2 weeks apart to give your body time to reorganize around the changes.
Am I a Good Candidate for Rolfing?
Rolfing can benefit people of all ages and activity levels. You might be a good candidate if you:
- Experience chronic pain or tension that hasn't responded to other approaches
- Want to improve posture, alignment, or structural balance
- Feel restricted or "stuck" in your body, especially after injury or surgery
- Are recovering from repetitive strain, postural stress, or compensatory patterns
- Seek greater body awareness and connection to internal signals
- Want to support nervous system health through structural work
- Are navigating midlife body changes and want to rebuild steadiness
- Are an athlete or performer looking to enhance coordination and ease
Rolfing is particularly valuable for midlife women experiencing stress held in the body, dysregulation from hormonal shifts, or the cumulative effects of decades spent in caretaking or high-demand roles. Restoring structural alignment can support nervous system regulation and create a steadier foundation for the second half of life.
If you have certain medical conditions (recent surgery, acute inflammation, cancer, clotting disorders), consult with your healthcare provider before beginning Rolfing.
Alison Litchfield, Certified Rolfer® & Movement Practitioner
Alison brings 28 years of experience in bodywork and movement therapy to her practice. As a Certified Rolfing® Structural Integration practitioner, her work is a unique synthesis of:
- Structural & Energetic Mastery: Combining precise anatomical knowledge with an understanding of the body's energetic systems.
- Compassionate Touch: Intuitive, hands-on work that listens to your body's needs.
- Holistic Transformation: Support for both physical alignment and emotional evolution.
- Empowerment: Guiding you to reclaim your posture, balance, ease, and vitality.
Alison is dedicated to helping you build “steady roots” in your physical form so you can move through life with greater freedom and authenticity.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Rolfing cost?
How much does Rolfing cost?
$200 for a 75-minute Rolfing session with Alison Litchfield.
When do I pay for my Rolfing session?
When do I pay for my Rolfing session?
Payment is due at the time of your Rolfing session, or you may pay prior.
What forms of payment do you accept?
What forms of payment do you accept?
Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, check, or cash. Credit card payments are accepted with a 5% processing fee.
What is your cancellation policy?
What is your cancellation policy?
24-hour cancellation policy (business days). Late cancellations will be billed for the full session.
How does Rolfing differ from massage?
How does Rolfing differ from massage?
Rolfing and massage are both hands-on bodywork, but they differ significantly in approach and goals. While massage focuses on relaxing muscles and relieving tension, Rolfing addresses your deeper fascial system to restore structural alignment and movement patterns. Rolfing typically involves a comprehensive 10-Series program designed to systematically reorganize your body’s connective tissue. Massage offers temporary relaxation; Rolfing creates lasting structural change.
Does Rolfing break up fascia?
Does Rolfing break up fascia?
Rolfing works with fascia (your body’s connective tissue) using hands-on manipulation to release tension and improve organization. Rather than “breaking up” fascia, Rolfing practitioners use specific techniques to rehydrate and reorganize fascial tissue, allowing your body to move more freely and efficiently. This process happens gradually over the course of the 10-Series, creating sustainable changes in how your body functions.
Is Rolfing the same as myofascial release?
Is Rolfing the same as myofascial release?
While Rolfing and myofascial release are related, they’re not identical. Both address fascia, but Rolfing is more comprehensive and holistic—it works with your entire structural system to create lasting changes in alignment and movement. Myofascial release is typically a single technique to release fascial restrictions. Rolfing practitioners use a systematic 10-Series protocol specifically designed to reorganize your whole body in relationship to gravity.
How many sessions do I need?
How many sessions do I need?
While the traditional “10-Series” is the gold standard for a complete structural overhaul, you are welcome to start with a single session or try the first three sessions to see how your body responds. Many clients find significant relief and value in just a few visits.
Where can I find Rolfing near me?
Where can I find Rolfing near me?
Alison Litchfield offers Rolfing® Structural Integration in Boulder, CO. Located at 4593 Broadway C119, Boulder, CO 80304, serving clients throughout the Boulder and Denver metro area. Schedule your session online to get started.
Related Services
Rolfing is part of the Roots pathway at Roots & Wings—foundational practices that help you regulate, realign, and rebuild steadiness in the body. You might also explore:
5-Week Nervous System Reset
Yoga Therapeutics workshop focused on nervous system regulation and somatic healing
1:1 Yoga Therapeutics
Private sessions integrating structural and movement principles
Yoga Classes
Regular classes to maintain alignment, mobility, and embodied presence
Midlife Coaching & Mentoring
Apply body-based insights to real life—boundaries, decisions, and purpose in the second half of life
Schedule Your Rolfing Session
Ready to experience Rolfing® Structural Integration? Book your session with Alison Litchfield, Certified Rolfer®, and start building steady roots in your body.
Phone:
303-579-2008
Address:
4593 Broadway C119, Boulder, CO 80304
Online Booking:
Schedule your session
What to bring:
- Comfortable clothing you can move in (athletic wear or undergarments)
- Any questions or specific areas you'd like to address
- Openness to the process and willingness to give feedback during the session
I look forward to supporting you in coming back to yourself—one session at a time.
4593 Broadway Avenue C119 Boulder Colorado 80304
303-579-2008
