Welcome!
Louisville Rolfing is the practice of Catherine Taye Slattery, Certified Rolfer, Rolf Movement Practitioner and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.
Hi! I'm Catherine. I’m glad you're here. Please be in touch if you have any questions or want to connect about your interest. I’d love to hear from you. If you’d like to schedule, you can do that here.
I’ve been helping people feel better with Rolfing for over 25 years. Most of my clients come in with layers of injury, tension, effort, strain and stress—the accumulation of your body’s efforts to move you around and protect you from harm, reinforced in the tissues. My hands are tremendously skilled at easing complex patterns of bracing, contraction and compensation. I’ve seen a lot of people get a lot better, and I have deep confidence in the body's capacity to heal. Think of me as a body whisperer, helping with body difficulties, big and small!
Rolfing is direct and thorough hands-on soft-tissue work, and movement education. During and after sessions you can expect positive and pleasant body experiences, including lightness, spaciousness, fluidity, balance, support, and relief, and feeling grounded, calm, vitally alive, relaxed, upright, and connected.
We aim to improve, restore, or discover the physical capableness and comfort that allow you do the things that you need and love to do. The process can include lasting improvements like:
- less pain, tension and stiffness
- ease of movement
- easy good posture
- access to calm, clear, joyful and optimistic mental and emotional states
- more body connection and self-awareness
- a sense of flow and forward movement in life
Rolfing helps bodies process old experiences and open to new possibilities. Bessel van der Kolk (author of The Body Keeps the Score) says Rolfing has been "the most helpful thing" in his own healing. He talks about carrying the experience of being a "sickly child" during WW2 in his body for a long time, and credits Rolfing with freeing his adult body from those early patterns. More on that here.
To support my clients who have trauma histories, I have additional training in body-based trauma resolution, Somatic Experiencing. More on SE here.
How to know if my work is good fit for you? You might see if any of the scenarios below match what it's like for you now. The list starts with classic Rolfing situations, and SE becomes a part of the process as you go down. See a longer list here: 24 Reasons for Rolfing.
- Your body is increasingly uncomfortable and tense because of layers of injury, effort, strain and/or stress.
- You are active, and have accumulated some pains and strains that aren’t resolving.
- You have an injury that is “healed” but still doesn’t feel ok.
- You aren’t able to do your preferred sports or exercise.
- You feel stuck in life.
- You’ve had significant medical or surgical experiences.
- You are quite limited, and can’t travel, do housework, or socialize as much as you want or need to.
- You have anxiety, or don’t feel like yourself, after a stressful time or significant event.
- You have pervasive feelings of being alone with your difficulties, and have the sense that “it will never get better for me.”
I’ve helped people in these circumstances and more. It would be a privilege to work with you too. I'm here for you!
There is more about Rolfing on the Rolfing page.
Client testimonials and my blog give sense of what it is like to work with me. You can read testimonial excerpts below, and full testimonials are here.
I’ve put some often recommended resources here.
Some interesting articles and links to research are here.
You can reach me at (502)408-6552 or catherinerolfing@gmail.com.
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