Hayley Matthews: Rolfer

29/04/2025

Rolfing clients often say that ‘magic happens’ in Rolfing sessions, in their bodies and lives.
I think that with all the wizards hats and crystal balls that our imaginations have conjured, we’ve forgotten that magic is real. Magic is touch, and listening and tending, nesting in each other’s gaze, being heard and seen, being willing not to know but to touch and move, explore and be with; change happening easily, coming out of pain and discomfort, finding ease when there was none, waking up gestures that were never made and then caused pain, growing through the subtle and huge scoliosis that we all have, like roses. This used to be available in every village, every community. But wasn’t supported into our exchange systems at times of change. So it feels like magic. And it is real magic.

📸 . Modelling here the lovely

09/04/2025

I’ve been contemplating ‘innovation’ and how it is that so many Rolfers create new ways of working in Rolfing and in other movement modalities, sciences, philosophies and artistic endeavours they are connected to. And often our clients too, during a Rolfing process, create things they haven’t before, new ways of working, seeing, being, organising our world. I sense this is because, humans are so grown by the world, unlike any other animal, we come into standing, walking and moving way after birth. So in so many ways we are stood, moved behaved by the world around us. This means that we are patterned by what is already here, how our social and cultural realities have come to move us.
And to come back to our own structure, there are different, innate ways of seeing, moving and being that we may not have explored. And as we land here, we see differently, organise our internal world differently, and then see and feel how we can organise our external world differently too. We arrive on our very individual offering to the world, it clarifies and moves, creating our world differently.

📸 , in shot too is the wonderful

31/03/2025

The neurological magic of a running and jogging practice. And the work we do with Rolfing to enable deep possibilities in movement, that give us a joyful, easeful, confident running practice without pain and strain.
Notes from my Rolfing offices 😊. The last in my running series.

13/02/2025

Notes from my Rolfing offices: part 1 on starting, improving and making joyful a running and jogging practice. A really useful, if not essential, way to bring buoyancy, joy, resilience and flow to our lives.

05/02/2025

Notes from my Rolfing office : re-aligning the coccyx after a bang - which can effect our breathing, walking and balance. And a little nod to a series I’ll be doing about jogging and running.

11/11/2024

My third and final notes in this little series on ‘Supporting the menstrual cycle with Rolfing’. Today we talk more about pelvic floor and all the visceral ‘diaphragm’ aspects of us women.
Happy as always to hear comments / thoughts / questions.
Thanks all, for following along. More soon on the next little series. Write if there’s something you’d like to hear about.
Hayley 🙏🍂

21/10/2024

Supporting an easeful menstrual cycle with Rolfiging. Part 2: Balancing the two halves of the pelvis

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21/05/2024

Notes from my Rolfing clinic: working with the nervous system with Rolfing

16/05/2024

I’m joining the community of fully Advanced Rolfers today. With this wonderful group from across the world 🙏🌎

🎉 Exciting news from the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute® Europe! 🎉

Dear Rolfing community, please join us in congratulating our international Certified Advanced Rolfers® who have spared no effort to successfully complete their training in Rolfing® Structural Integration. 👏 A big round of applause for:

Åsa Åhman (SE), Max Binder (DE), Andrea Buckley (UK), Pedro Amorim (NO), Jennifer-Lynn Crawford (UK), David Haiderer (AT), Thomas Jackson (CH), Stefan Kirn (DE), Petró Kohut (ES), Masahiko Kushizaki (JP), Cornelia Levin (DE), Hayley Matthews (UK), Raffael Oberhuber (IT), Klaus Otten (DE), Ruxandra Rey (CH), Andrea Schneider (DE), John van Roosmalen (NL), Cirsten Verleger (DE), Tara Fraser (UK)
Instructor: Pierpaola Volpones

Assistant: Christoph Sommer

Your dedication is inspiring, and we can't wait to see the further impact you will have on the field of Rolfing Structural Integration.

🌟 Here's to your continued success and the great work you are doing! 🌟

22/04/2024

My appointments are now open into July in London and Norwich. And I’m changing studios in Norwich

Info and appointments in my quarterly newsletter below. Booking by email as usual

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April Mon 29: 14:40, 16:00 May Mon 6: 16:00, 18:40 Mon 20: 9:00, 10:15, 11:30, 14:00, 15:15, 16:30 Mon 27: 16:00, 17:20, 18:40. June Mon 10: 9:00, 10:15, 11:30, 14:00, 15:15, 16:30 Mon 17: 9:00, 10:15, 11:30, 14:00, 15:15, 16:30 Mon 24: 9:00, 10:15, 11:30, 14:00, 15:15, 16:30 July Mon 1: 9:00, 1.....

12/04/2024

Waking up the function of our particular posture. Knowing what we need, resisting what we don’t, turning in the ‘right’ direction, getting what we need. Notes from my Rolfing clinic on how Rolfing works with the functional aspects of our embodied orientation, our life through our body and how it moves.

05/03/2024

‘The poetic body’. A short dive into the potential of this embodied presence; in our bodies, lives, movement and dancing.

It’s a phrase I use to describe a particular embodied reality, that I support and awaken in my Rolfing, dancing and teaching practices.

Enjoy 🌊