About Soken

Soken Graf is a Certified Advanced Rolfer™. After 12 years of intensive monastic training Soken’s teacher instructed him to offer Dharma talks and work as a healer in San Francisco. Deeply influenced by Buddhist contemplation and years of monastic study, Soken’s work as a Certified Advanced Rolfer™ supports your body’s innate capacity to heal. His desire is for you to be free of unnecessary suffering so that you can live a more complete, compassionate and joyful life. Treatments and classes at Bodhi Heart Rolfing aim to keep you feeling grounded, balanced and at ease so that you can flourish and function with simplicity and grace in a complex, demanding world.

Education

Soken obtained his degree as a Certified Rolfer™ in 2006 at the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration in Boulder, Colorado. Upon certification he continued to study in Scottsdale, AZ with internationally recognized  Advanced Rolfer Dr. Jeffrey Maitland–author of Mind Body Zen, and one of only seven people in the world authorized to write Advanced Rolfing curricula. Following his work with Dr. Maitland, Soken went to Vienna and Berlin to study the energetic aspects of healing. In 2010, he obtained his degree as a Certified Advanced Rolfer™. Soken is also trained in Visceral Manipulation, a manual therapy that restores vitality to your organs; as well as Craniosacral Therapy, a powerful therapy that restores flow to cerebro-spinal fluid, often resulting in clear-headedness and profound relaxation. Soken has also studied with renowned chiropractors such as Dr. John Brimhall, Native American healers, and received an advanced certification to practice Cold-Laser Therapy, an FDA-approved intervention that restores health to damaged cells.