Rolfing In Boulder

Robert McWilliams- Certified Advanced Rolfer & Rolf Movement Practitioner

Call (303) 887-6764

Schedule Boulder, CO

Schedule OKC, OK
  • Rolfing® In Boulder, Colorado and Rolfing® Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  • Core Values, Vision, Mission Statements and Big Audacious Goal
  • About Rolfing
  • About Robert McWilliams- Boulder Rolfer
  • Testimonials
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • Directions

The Calm Center in Motion

August 7, 2016 By Rob Leave a Comment

‘Feeling the calm at the center of the cyclone.’ ‘Feeling the stillness within motion.’ These are some of my favorite metaphors for how dance can feel for me.
Think about it: most movement does not seek to “stabilize” but rather to move though space, whether the motion is small or large. It’s important to develop balance, sensitivity and control in place, like doing dance adagio movements that mostly stay still around a planted standing foot, or “stabilization work” on a boss ball or some such. That will not be enough to develop coordination skills for moving through space, which is a different use pattern, IMO.
I am not working ‘scientifically’ here, though it may sound like that. I am trying to express the feeling that showed up for me in the course of ‘discovering’ or uncovering what had already been going on for me and probably most “movers”.
I’m working with the large Gym Ball to help people explore eccentric muscle contraction, but also while going off-center in movement. I feel that this more than many things I have come up with helps develop the sense of staying ‘centered within the movement’ in a coordinative sense.
This is as usual a work in progress. Stay tuned.

Filed Under: Dance, Rolfing

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Get Started Today:

Schedule Online Now


Read & Leave Reviews On:

Check out Rolfing in Boulder on Yelp

Happy Clients!

"Robert McWilliams is an amazingly skilled, compassionate and excellent Master Rolfer. Rolfing not only feels exquisitely good, it has freed me from chronic low back pain. What a relief . Another result of multiple sessions is that Robert has taught me to move more freely and efficiently. I cannot recommend Robert enough,because he has helped change my life . I have this deep internal physical and emotional sense of "before and after " where the "after " feels like a new lease on life. After completing the series, I still get Rolfed because it feels so darn good and there are continuing benefits. Robert has my highest recommendations."

- Elizabeth P, Airline Captain



"This man is an AWESOME bodyworker! Finally, after years of trying many other healing modalities, I have relief from chronic neck and back pain after doing Robert’s 10 sessions of Rolfing. As wonderful as that is, there have been other, unexpected benefits that are also life changing: areas of my body that didn’t communicate well with each other before are now developing a more efficient and fluid way of working together. Besides more range of motion and comfort, I feel more grounded. I also experience a clearer sense of my personal boundaries and an inner self-friendliness that is profound and hard to articulate."

- Kai Hu,
Well Being Alignment, Boulder, CO

Rob McWilliams | Certified Advanced Rolfer & Rolf Movement Practitioner | Rolfing In Boulder
robmcwilliams@mac.com ***(303) 887-6764 Colorado *** (405) 396-6296 Oklahoma
Copyright © 2019