You are a body bag waiting for another. And this is good news.

The first one is plastic, it can change shape, therefore the bones, muscles organs, ligaments, all the stuff within this body bag can also change their position and roles. In fact, after injury or trauma--whether physical, mental, psychic or spiritual, whether we are injured, and stuff is broken or dented, twisted, misshapen, rolfing, by changing the shape of the body bag, creates a new living place within the bag for all the parts to arise anew. This is the invitation of rolfing, to come out onto the dance floor again, for new steps, new rhythms are available, and you are always a protean body

This is also not an experience where you are done to where extra energy is added through elbows or fingers as if pushing a car that is stuck, but one where each sensation is an invitation to fax your breath to that number. You breath into each sensation, you are "sensational", the experience is one of utter simplicity with nothing to figure out in the head. You already have within this bodybag all the energy needed to heal, the reservoir simply needs to be tapped, the gates open. Where breath goes blood follows, they like each other, and then the layers of connective tissue--the composition of this body bag--begin to warm up to the situation, the layers begin to move again as they were designed to do and, voila, the knee that was painful because it was twisted and complaining, begins to untwist from its holding pattern, its self-splinting where it had been saying, hey, better to 'freeze" the knee than further injure the leg, give up the knee to save the hip and ankle. The body is noble, it is always giving up parts of itself to save the community and now rolfing comes along with a way to welcome those parts back into this community, this bodybag, this life. And no one resents it if there isn't a parade. That you are moving again as you were designed to do, that you look and feel younger than your years, that your mind awakens within your body, that is already the parade. You are oiled and on your way with new steps, new springs, perhaps even a new vision.

Of course, the second body bag is the one you will be zipped into and, if you think that is not good news as well, maybe you missed the celebration of the first one. But not to worry, you will get another chance.