However, it became clear that her work was holistic in nature, and was an approach towards health maintenance and personal evolution. At the time of her death in 1979, there were more than 200 certified Rolfing practitioners around the world. Today, there are more than 1000 Rolfers and Rolfing Movement Teachers currently in private practice worldwide. Each segment of the process is both a continuation of the previous one and an introduction to the next. The body is systematically and physically manipulated during this initial series of ten sessions, each of which lasts about an hour and may be scheduled as often as twice a week.
Some people choose to schedule their sessions once a week, others once a month.
Rolfing's ten session series is designed to uncover a structural ease and kinetic balance that is unique to each client. Rather, it is a process of education in which a Rolfer seeks to help a client discover the most efficient way of using his or her body, given the limitations, liabilities, and virtues of that body. In effect, the plan of each group of ten lessons must be created anew for the needs of the particular person seeking help. However, there are certain guidelines and landmarks which every Rolfer follows in each program of sessions, and it is to these basic tenets that we must turn to complete our description of the treatment process. Some lengthening of the trunk up and out of the pelvis is also anticipated, as well as a relaxation of the legs below the hip joint.