Ida Rolf Quotes

#1. 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 came later.

Ida Rolf

#2. Practitioners of SI do not feel ourselves to be therapists. The gravitational field is the therapist. What we do is prepare the body to receive the support from the gravitational field which gives a greater sense of well being.

Ida Rolf

#3. I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'

Pat Paulsen

#4. Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.

Ida Rolf

#5. 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 be forced. It's that forcing that you have to avoid at all costs.

Ida Rolf

#6. It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.

Ida Rolf

#7. When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself

Ida Rolf

#8. Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

Ida Pauline Rolf

#9. When I first met Alan, I was absolutely terrified. I was 19, he was Alan Rickman, and he's got that voice, and I remember meeting him in the hair and make-up trailer and thinking, 'I'm going to die. He thinks I'm rubbish. Why am I here?'

Kate Winslet

#10. Believe this, Bitch.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#11. You cant get beyond the body unless you free the body itself.

Ida Rolf

#12. Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.

Marilyn Monroe

#13. Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

Max Muller

#14. But in the days that followed I realized he was only what he seemed: a giant baby with a heart too big for his body.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#15. An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Ida Pauline Rolf

#16. The body is solid material wrapped around the breath

Ida Rolf

#17. it wasn't until the train went past that she saw the small body lying in the long grass by the side of the wood.

Sanjida Kay