"You almost cannot teach Rolfing because you are everlastingly dealing with something that is as uncertain as a water bed. This is the problem, to get secure in an art in which there is no security. Your security comes only from relationships. If any of you think that you're really smart enough to get up and teach Structural Integration as a secure, lecture kind of class, go to it. All kidding aside, if I can get you to a place where you recognize the security of insecurity, you will have made that first step forward. So many people talk as though they really know what Rolfing is all about. But when you turn them loose to work with it, it's a different story. These problems are basically problems of our educational system. Nowhere in our educational system that I know of at the moment (perhaps in some very esoteric order) are there places where they, teach you to live on practices which are completely insecure. Part of the goal of present-day education is to get secure ground on which to stand. A Rolfer's only secure ground in a body is to establish balanced relationship. That is your secure ground, and it is not possible to convert it into something that is solid like a wall."
Dr. Ida Rolf
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