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> [If you can imagine how it feels to live in a fluid, light balanced body, free of pain, stiffness and chronic stress, at ease with itself and the Earth’s gravitational field; then you will understand the goals of Rolfing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-rolf/if-you-can-imagine-how-it-feels-to-live-in-a-fluid-light-balanced/)

[Ida Rolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-rolf/)

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## More by Ida Rolf

> [When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-rolf/when-the-body-gets-working-appropriately-the-force-of-gravity-can/)

[Ida Rolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-rolf/)

> [It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-rolf/it-s-not-how-deep-you-go-it-s-how-you-go-deep/)

[Ida Rolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-rolf/)

> [God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-rolf/god-didn-t-come-down-and-tell-me-i-had-to-find-it-out-through-many/)

[Ida Rolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-rolf/)

> [You cant get beyond the body unless you free the body itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-rolf/you-cant-get-beyond-the-body-unless-you-free-the-body-itself/)

[Ida Rolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-rolf/)

> [Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-rolf/some-individuals-may-perceive-their-losing-fight-with-gravity-as-a/)

[Ida Rolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-rolf/)

> [Practitioners of SI do not feel ourselves to be therapists. The gravitational field is the therapist. What we do is prepare the body to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-rolf/practitioners-of-si-do-not-feel-ourselves-to-be-therapists-the/)

[Ida Rolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-rolf/)

> [The body is solid material wrapped around the breath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-rolf/the-body-is-solid-material-wrapped-around-the-breath/)

[Ida Rolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-rolf/)

> [If you can imagine how it feels to live in a fluid, light balanced body, free of pain, stiffness and chronic stress, at ease…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-rolf/if-you-can-imagine-how-it-feels-to-live-in-a-fluid-light-balanced/)

[Ida Rolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-rolf/)

> [Go around the problem; get the system sufficiently resilient so that it is able to change, and it will change, It doesn't have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-rolf/go-around-the-problem-get-the-system-sufficiently-resilient-so-that/)

[Ida Rolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-rolf/)

> [Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-rolf/strength-that-has-effort-in-it-is-not-what-you-need-you-need-the/)

[Ida Rolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-rolf/)

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