Today's session was intense. It began with the arms, the shoulders, and the chest. But what followed-- I actually thought my practitioner was joking. She and I often joke and laugh before my session begins...it wasn't until I saw what was going on on the table next to me...
After working on my chest and neck-- she put on some rubber gloves and with her finger in my mouth began working the fascia around my gums and jaw. The bottom of my mouth, and the top. And not forgetting my tongue...she pressed her hand down on the back of my tongue-- as far as she could without making me gag. I was pretty tense during this- I tried to follow my breath in my belly by holding my hands there. It felt pretty weird. I think it was while she was working on my mouth that I began to realize the depth of rolfing. Despite how it simple it had seemed in previous sessions...the changes I was noticing in my body were huge. This body was quite different than what it was only a few days ago.
After allowing me a moment to breathe-- nothing would prepare me for this-- staying at my side-- she held her hand to my face, taking her pinky finger all the way into my left nostril. Whoa. Strangest thing ever. It felt as if her whole arm was in there-- and all I could do despite some discomfort and she pressed deeper, was breath as deep as I could out of my right nostril. She held her place in my nose for as long as I could bear. Whe she removed her finger-- I took a deep deep breath-- and felt like my left nostril was twice the size it had been a few moments before. When she went for the right nostril-- I was a bit more uncomfortable. It definitely was a bit more tender and uncomfortable. Even now, several hours later, I can still feel the pressure of her hand.
The mouth work was hard for me. The nose-- even harder. I don't think I ever realized how much tension could be held in either place. My giggling and coughing-- all indications of the tension held there.
When I got up from that table today I felt like my head was an orange on a toothpick, and my feet were like cement blocks pulling that weight down. I was intensely aware of the space in my mouth-- between my teeth and my tongue. There was this massive space in the front of my face- the space behind my throat, up my tongue, the space underneath my cheeks...my nostrils. And this relationship between the space in my face and head, and the space I felt in my hips, in my shoulders.
This session by far was the most intense for me. Only three more to go...
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